After 8 months of driving a well maintained, one previous owner '81 300SD, I'm starting to get upset when I see people driving around in ragged, old beat up MB's. When I purchased my first MB a little over 8 years ago from a Salvation Army for $300.00, I basically just buffed out the oxidation from the paint every six months and kept her running with a little TLC. I never really cared what anyone else's MB looked like because I thought that they just served a utilitarian purpose very well and that's all there is to it. But now my line of thinking is that someone once paid a fortune for this thing 30 years ago, and to treat it like one of the billions of Toyotas that were made in the 1990's is a crime. I'm not asking for people to get there 1982 240D serviced at the dealer every 6 months. I'm a starving musician and understand the economics of car ownership and the notorious "Hood Star Tax", but for Pete's sake, wash the car more than once a year, wipe off the biodiesel dripping from the fuel filler hole, and put a safe set of tires on the old beauty.

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'81 300SD