Tons of salient points being posted. You pretty well have to have a very reliable car for daily transportation. Or if married two of them usually today. Other cars are optional.

Reliable does not have to be really new. We consume new and low milage used vehicles. Then there are the others. Depending on your local climate you could set your older Mercedes aside for another day.

At your age things will change has to be a given. I hope everyone realizes that these old 123s may not signifigantly rise in value but they will soon be scarce and will represent another time. Pretty much as a finback Mercedes does today.

I ditched my 50 mercury in good condition for 100.00. My 39 ford two door in very good shape for 125.00 and my 46 ford hot rod business man coupe for 100.00 at one time.

Many times I have thought to myself my father was right. He told me I should be putting some of my older cars away at the time and not just letting them go. Those three cars incidentally where in real good shape. Plus at that time were already older cars.

Each one had a story. The 39 ford resided in a small community in the far north. There were no roads in or out of the community. The car was always put up on blocks for each winter. The old couple retired to southern Ontario and barged the car out with their other possessions.

I put a note on the windshield and the lady called our home. My mother of course told the lady her son would not want a car that old when she called. At least my mother told me she had called. I went to work really fast to find that older lady and did.

Even though the car had less than 20k on the odometer. She insisted her husband have a garage go over the whole car before passing it over. Essentially a new 39 ford was passed to me in the end.

The 50 mercury was almost pristine as well. Still back then an older car was worth very little. Many of the local guys would frequent the ritzy section of wealthy north Toronto and grab older pierce arrows and their like for very little money..

Usually the cars were in great condition flower vases and all. But older. On a few of them I was aware enough of the future for those examples to suggest to a few guys they should not be driving them as daily Drivers.

Time has proven me right I guess but there was no way we could be certain of this much change in the future back then. A few of the guys were unconsciously driving todays really expensive classics as daily drivers. I was not.