My new indy's business and house are located within 50 yards of each other on about 5 acres of property. He's been working exclusively on Mercedes and other German cars out of this shop since 1970. Over the past 30 years he's amassed an amazing collection of Mercedes people dumped on him for various reasons.

He has at least 50 cars that I could see, some of which look like they driven there, parked, and he never touched.

The only cars I can recall with current tags were the black SEC, the W124 e300D, the 280ce, the 3 cars on the other side of the driveway, and the newer VW bug.

There are some nice looking Diesels in them woods...

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

I dig his Amazon (the blue Volvo coupe).. I just had to junk both of mine.

Oh, and the two Pagoda SL's... mmmm

I don't suppose he'd be willing to sell any of those for parts? Or just sell parts?

How did the 95 E300 get in that mix?

I'd love to rebuild that early 50s 220.

Sixto
87 300D

It could be a customer's car. It has current tags looks too clean to not be in regular use.

I spent a long while drooling over that blue pagoda.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Those Pagoda's would make excellent resto projects...if they are not rusted out from sitting in a dirt field.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I want my yard to look like that.

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"spreading a trail of obnoxious where ever we go"
1981 300sd w/ 341,500 miles

http://www.wecrash.com/pics/ddda_banner.gif

I want a Fintail real bad.

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'81 300CD - 180K, cannot be killed by any conventional means
'99 Ford Escort - good MPG

I know, two Pagodas, a Finny and was that a rusted out Addie? I want them all!

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"I have no convictions ... I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"

Current
Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
FoxyCleopatra '99 Chevy Suburban
Scarlett 2014 Jeep Cherokee
Krystal 2004 Volvo S60
Gone
'74 Jeep CJ5
'97 Jeep ZJ Laredo
Rudolf ‘86 300SDL
Bruno '81 300SD
Fritzi '84 BMW
'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

Any 116's in there?

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RIP: 80 300SD
RIP: 79 450SEL
2002 E430 4matic (212,000km)
2002 ML500 'sport'

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FACEBOOK: PANZER450

From the pictures I took, I see at least 3 W116s.

That blue Pagoda is really calling my name. China blue with a blue interior, Nardi steering wheel, no obvious rust. I'm going to have to be more snoopy with this guy. He's pushing 60+ I'm guessing, and told me he no longer accepts cars, even if they're free, so perhaps he's willing to thin the herd.

I imagine a complete 280SL pagoda with a decent in need of restoration would easily bring 10k, so I'm probably dreaming.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

TYLER!!!!!!!!!!

PM sent......

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Oh dear, what now?

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

I forgot to mention the white wagon is a very rare 87 300TD, with good looking white paint and a navy blue interior. The tags on it expired 4 years ago.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

If you talk to the guy again I really am in the market for an '87 300D. I don't want the wagon flavor but the sedan. And of course, it can't be a dark color like black or navy.........
I would begrudgingly look into the later 2.5 liter turbo variety, but really would prefer to be a part of the '87 300D club!!

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Jimmy L.
'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

He should sell the Pagoda to you before it rots away to nothing. Keeping cars out in a field is just a slow death. Rodents ruin everything that the weather doesn't. You shouldn't really do that to rare cars, its one thing when its a commen 300SD or E320, but not a Pagoda or even a 300TD for that matter.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200