One of the things that separate the MB's of the sixties through maybe early nineties from other cars is their "repairability." You can fix these cars and there is something left to fix.

Many, rather most, other brands, have much poorer quality paint, trim, chrome, upholstery etc, causing them to have nothing left after the first or second owner. These cars carry their age well cosmetically, and much of the car, mechanically.

For this reason, I believe that those sick folks like us who gravitate toward going to all sorts of trouble to keep an old car on the road, naturally want to put our efforts into something that is WORTH the effort, rather than an old ragged out American or Japanese vehicle of some sort. Typically these vehicles have faded paint, melted away upholstery, etc after 10 or 15 years.

Just a theory, but I thought that I would throw it in.

My $0.02,