My young buddy Danny was on spring break and told me he had a friend that had a new twin post lift we could use for the day. Did we make fast work of that swap job. We started at 9:30 AM and had it back on the road at 12:15 PM. That is a fast record for 100 year old people, as Dan is 20 and I am 80. Danny did most of the work! Oh it is sooooo nice! so quiet in 1st and 2nd I can hardly believe it. And the car is so quiet now that I have the exhaust properly mounted. Oh the noise was getting to me, (and I am hard of hearing). My wife says even the cat can't hear me coming in the driveway now! Jory, the forum member I bought it from says the transmission was owned by a Mercedes Mechanic, (he also said old German) who had it for a spare for his car. Evidently the man "passed on" before he used it. I think he hand picked one he knew was good. Even the shifting is stiff and straight. Feels like a real low mileage transmission to me.

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1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA

2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!

Great news Jim - I'm really happy for you.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!