Real Euro w124 300D near Vanc, BC

[Ian White]

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/ctd/1583009156.html

Wow, this is fairly erotic.

Ian

[compu_85]

I've seen that car before. I believe it has the wrong hood, headlights, and fender.

-Jason

[barry123400]

Import from Japan? I have seen them even here.

[Crazy_Nate]

Is it normal to not have the fender vents on both sides? Intake?

[compu_85]

It has the 93+ front end, I think only the 2.5 turbo got the fender vent.

-Jason

[babymog]

Yes, the front end has been changed to one from a '94/'95, accident? Wheels too, ... and not importable to the US.

This car and the same photo was making the rounds here last summer, about $4000 over-priced IMO with all that is wrong.

[JimmyL]

Originally Posted by compu_85

It has the 93+ front end, I think only the 2.5 turbo got the fender vent.

-Jason

My '95 also has the fender vent, just no turbo to help suck the air through it.....
The manual AC controls would be very nice, but no way I could fight through that interior!! Just awful.......
And of course the price is ridiculous!!!!

[compu_85]

Hmm, I really like the interior

-J

[dariod]

Originally Posted by barry123400

Import from Japan? I have seen them even here.

I think Japanese cars are right hand drive vehicles and not left like in North America so this is not a Japanese market car. Second of all the trunk has a small license plate insert (usa, canada type of plates) while all plates in Europe are wide long plates and trunk is different. I believe in Canada you could have cloth seats, manual climate control ETC. as opposed to USA where those were not even optional.

[dariod]

Originally Posted by Ian White

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/ctd/1583009156.html

Wow, this is fairly erotic.

Ian

Oh yeaah even if it was gray market euro model NOWHERE NEAR "erotic" lol.

[biopete]

That manual climate control turned me on more than anything.

[Ian White]

Not a bad looking car, too bad the exchange rate wasn't a tad better

[cornblatt]

Originally Posted by dariod

I think Japanese cars are right hand drive vehicles and not left like in North America so this is not a Japanese market car. Second of all the trunk has a small license plate insert (usa, canada type of plates) while all plates in Europe are wide long plates and trunk is different. I believe in Canada you could have cloth seats, manual climate control ETC. as opposed to USA where those were not even optional.

You can see a decal reading "Mercedes-Benz Japan" on the rear window glass in the last photo of the ad (the photo of the trunk) directly above the trunk light. It's tiny but it's there! I attached the photo in case they finally sell the car after all this time and the craigslist ad goes away.

The japanese-used-car Mercedes imports aren't that uncommon - I probably see one a week around here.

Canada did not have cloth seats or manual climate control. Everything we got here (at least during the W201 / W124 time period, mid 80s - mid 90s) was the same as the US models. In the past few years, we've gotten a few different models though (e.g. the diesel smart and the B class).

[winmutt]

There was one from Guadalupe on miami CL a year or so ago. With the sport suspension package and 5spd... Should have got it.

[Jeremy5848]

Would a '91 have a 6-cylinder engine? An OM603? I can't be sure from the engine bay photo but it looks like a 603. I thought they were down to the OM602 by 1991 but those were badged "300D 2.5" in the USA.