What a depressing sight. I'm tooling down NW Hwy in Dallas today, and see emergency lights up ahead. The closer I get, the more one of the autos looks familiar. Sure enough, it was a very clean 300D, a nice cream color. Back left tire was horizontal to the ground (never a good sign), back window busted out, and drivers side, behind driver, caved in significantly. No doubt totaled I've been looking for a parts car, but could never intrude on someones loss like that.
Just a terrible sight!
Jimmy

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

When I find a car in the bone yard that looks like someone died in it, I pass on it... Bad karma....

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w124
w126
w212

Hope it was not a forum member.

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1985 300SD
1983 300D
1984 190D
2003 Volvo V70
2002 Honda Civic

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Probably only minor injuries -- I've seen one that was hit at a right angle in the driver's door, both windshields broken, turn signal lever busted by the door panel, the little old lady driving it climbed out the passenger side. She pulled out into traffic and got hit at about 50 or so, no skid marks from a car without antilock brakes.

Definitely totalled. Very sad to see, but it did what it was supposed to do, save the passengers!

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!

My Grandmother was driving my Grandfathers 240D, on highway 37 years ago. Now all of you who know what Highway 37 used to be like, knows it wasnt a very pleasant highway to use... 2 lane highway, no divider, and wetlands on both sides.. very skinny "shoulder". It had and still has a posted 55mph (people as usual did and do about 65-70)> It has since been divided by a concrete divder, but is still a little nerve racking. ANYWAYS, she had made it through the undivided course of the highway, and was approaching the intersection with the 4 way red light for the highway interchange that leads into Sonoma Valley. She was the first of the pack of traffic she was traveling in, and hit the gas. A Semi-truck approching the intersection from the Sonoma Valley lost is brakes and plowed through the intersection, smashing into the passenger side of the 240D. My grandmas car spun around, and rolled onto its roof as it slid into the ditch on the left hand side of the road. She got out, and walked away with nothing more than a broken arm!

She still has the car today, although its not repaired and justs its in her garage covered with boxes and household junk. She wont even think of parting with it, it saved her life. Had she bene in any other car, this story would have been very different.

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1995 E420
1992 BMW 525i
1984 300D Turbo sold
1993 Volvo 244 sold
1995 Volvo 944T R.I.P!


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Fellow that owns the Mercedes salvage yard in Ky has like 8 acres of cars, all MB. Only two fatalities in the whole place. As I recall one was a very bad t-bone and the other was a truck ran over the car.

Saw a BMW 325i that got t-boned on the drivers side at the yard the other day. Not much room for the legs down there by the pedals..I would have predicted atleast a broken leg.
With the way I drive, nothing makes the passengers in my car safter than stories I tell them about benzes saving the day.
Even my VW bug, when flipped over upon its top on a nasty corner after leaving the road survived pretty well...any rear passengers would have been short on headroom but my passenger and I walked away from the totaled machine.
Took it home, beat out the dents, added some plastic, and still get 40MPG.
I heart german engineering.