I washed and waxed my 30TD and parked it facing the street in front of my house.

Around 6 PM a guy pulls up in front of my house in an old battered Honds and begins to honk. This seems to be a custom in some of the countries immigrants to Miami have: they bang on the gate or honk outside the house rather than coming up and knocking on the door.

So I come out and the guy asks me how much I want for my wagon. I tell him that it isn't for sale, and that I had to take the Greyhound ll the way to Atlanta to buy it.

I paid $3K for it, but I saw that the guy at ************** in Bellingham WA had one on E Bay for 4995 with over 200K miles on it.

Could a station wagon become a collectors item at only 18 years old? I seem to have read that between 1980 and 85 there were only 28,000 of these imported. Mine sold new for around $35K, which in 85 would get you a pair of Buick wagons, I think.

I saw a neat 60's Mercury Turnpike Cruiser style 2 door wagon in a carshow several years ago that looked pretty awesome.

I am pretty happy with the 300TD. It just needs a few minor things to be perfect.: the new radio won't play CD's much of the time or MP3's ever, the rear wiper & washer don't work and the antenna was disconnected by the PO because it seemed to be draining the battery.

There are a couple of small holes in the leather upholstery.

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Semibodacious Transmogrifications a Specialty

1990 300D 2.5 Turbo sedan 171K (Rudolf)
1985 300D Turbo TD Wagon 219K (Remuda)

"Time flies like and arrow, yet fruit flies like a banana"
---Marx (Groucho)