Originally Posted by pawoSD

Since they were by far the most inexpensive MB, many more were bought by people in debt up to their eyeballs, so they would skimp on actually maintaining the vehicle, slowly running it into the ground....so many more have been trashed or dumped because of this. Also since so many more were gassers, when they develop issues they can be a lot more expensive and complex to repair, so yet again people dump them. They can be found in nice shape, its just hard. I have a '93 gasser thats in good physical shape, engine is toast however, I'm working on an OM601 swap to make it a nice 190d. One that never existed, a 1993 190d.