rderton, road stories for these cars are always interesting. Keep the posts coming. Sorry about the alternator braking down so far from home.
I recently took a 2.3K mi road trip to the Black Hills and back in my 77 240D. Friends and family (save for my girlfriend) looked at us twice when we took a 25 year old car on a 2K mile vacation. The car ran great at 75-80 the whole time, except for the Black Hills when it slowed to 45 at times. Roll on and keep the reports coming.

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Fred Johnson
1977 240D
1983 300SD