Featured in current Mercedes Enthusiast article on "American" diesels. Pretty car bought in Texas from a less than forthright former owner, the car has required over $4k to get it street legal...but is rust free, different, and now should go another 10 years w/o any more major attention. Day photos shot for article was hot the way only Washington can be in summer, and couldn't take chance engine would start again if shut off, so ran for five hours. Differences from my trusty 240 include "slow" windows/sunroof and of course the barn-size doors.

Holson...I LOVE the anthracite on yours, and on MBs in general. A lawyer fellow here in DC had a '65 VW done over in flawless anthracite...maybe the classiest example of a "reverse" status symbol I've ever seen.