So, was talking to local guy today and he mentions this old MB sitting in a nearby barn for the last 25 years... with suicide doors and a 4 banger diesel engine... any ideas as to what that would be? Hoping to get a little more info in a couple days. Not showing TOOOO much interest in it for fear it will suddenly disappear...

170D was the last one with suicide doors I think

Didn't the old 170d sedans have suicide doors, here, if you look where the door handle is I believe it does.

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you beat me to it Govert

As shown here:

MB 170

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Probably a 170, a pre-war design that had lots of structural wood in the doors and body.

The diesel is probably the side valve motor that was used up through the 180D ponton.

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The 170's are really cool looking cars. I'd love to have one, but you better have a big pile of cash to restore it. They are extremely rare in the US.

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Isn't there a 170DS with upgraded trim over the 170D?

Could it be the granddaddy of Diesel powered passenger cars the 1936 W138 260D?



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Sixto
87 300D

How much for it?

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Id be shocked if there are any two sixties in the US.

I saw a one seventy once in person in the Elkhart area. I wanted it.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

There is a 170 on craigslist in new york for 12k. I have to say that is a very pretty car. I would love to have to have or two.

There were two in Portland, OR for sale a few weeks ago. Both by the same guy. I wanted them bad, but it's just not in the card for me.

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They would be a sweet town car or with modern diesel power a really cool sleeper streed rod. Since they can be bought fairly reasonably I would think a sanitary one would hold its value.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Can't wait to find out more about it. What I do know, It's been sitting so ling that the brake fluid has turned to jelly. The car runs. The original owner passed almost 30 years ago and the car was park in the barn and has been sitting since.

Actually, not so.

It's the 220 cars and the early Adenauers that cost a lot to restore, mostly because people screw you on the parts, not because they are particularly exotic.

Except, of course, custom bodies, but custom bodies of any car cost more.

I bought my 170D for 750.00 and spent another 400.00 getting a second car with three extra diesel engines, one of which was rebuilt and put on a test stand for use in a school, until the school goit closed.

I have wanted to save the second car and put a 170 gas engine in it.
Have been talking to txjake about that, but got sick, and then I had to travel. Got sick again for the winter, so now am behind on my buildoimng plans for my workshop, though I did get a tire machine that was being trashed from a bankrupt garage.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

There's a regsiter of 260s in the US. The people are paranoid about them. There's at least one in Michigan and one source I talked to last year, said there were 49 total in the US, more than in Germany. The museum in Untertuerkheim never thought they were a big deal.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6