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[SonnyMorrow]

Originally Posted by ROLLGUY

The holes could have been for the mounts for full wrap around bumpers without the rubber boot, although being an '83, I believe all the Euro bumpers had the rubber boots by then. It is possible that the guy (or someone previous) traded interiors. The cloth interior would have been worth a lot more than the MB Tex. The only real way to know is to get the VIN, and see what it was equipped with from the factory.

That could be true, but three piece Euro bumpers never came on any diesel W123. Yea for sure, the only real way is to see the vin. But it is quite fun to use clues and some detective work.

Anyhow it is pretty common to find Euro spec W123s with USA lights as they usually get federalized during import (no red flags there) However, I just noticed the tail lights are USA as well which don't usually get swapped out during federalization. Does anyone see anything else?