Originally Posted by WDBCB20

Tragic how the omnipresent terror of the American wife runs like a red thread through so many posts on this site. This country must definitely harbour the world's most P-whipped population of men on the planet...

From the TLC that it's evident you lavished on this car it's clear that you recognized it for the keeper that it is, should have been or can still be. Maybe this could be the catalyst for that watershed moment where you decide the wife won't get to deprive you of this one last source of pleasure and satisfaction - you have already rid yourself of all other project cars.

Don't have DIY time right now or near future? Fine, prep the car for long term storage. You will have time in the long term.

The '85 was the culmination of the build - they introduced the refinements on the transmission vacuum management, hence the smooooooooth shifts and replaced the diff with the 2:88 for lower revs at highway speeds.

How many times have you encountered "gone but missed"; "wish I hadn't sold it"; "best car I ever had" etc when reading through guys' fleet list in their signatures just like yours?

Is that what you want us to read next to your "1985 300SD - 'Grace' (198K mi.)"?