Honestly, after having owned a 1990 300E and how much trouble that car was for me and how difficult it was to get to all the pods in the dash, requiring removal of the dash, I have found the W126 models to be generally easier to work on and they tend to have more robust metal parts in them than the W124, which tend to favor plastics. Even the way the interior door panels are constructed are more robust on a W126 than W124. Maybe a 300SE would be more your flavor. There's still a grey one for sale in Tucson on craigslist that has about 100k miles on it and looks almost cherry.


Podectomy = pure gold :-D


https://tucson.craigslist.org/ctd/d/1991-mercedes-benz-300-series/6698693932.html