Just sold my Volvo today for $1400 and picked up this 240d for $800. Good day.

Crusty, beat up, 4 speed, manual everything (but electric sliding roof?).

Plans? Drive it into the ground.

Is it really THAT beat up? More pics would be nice

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- 1979 W123 240D 4-speed, 390k miles

Sweet! I'm scared by the veggie oil sticker on the back, though.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Really, it's less beat up than my old wagon. The passenger side of the car got hit pretty hard. The doors are dented in and pushed back. The driver's side buttcheek is completely rusted out.

I checked the floors with a screwdriver though, and everything looks okay.


I'll be running bio diesel. This was never run on homebrew veg, as far as I know. Hipsters who buy these cars just love to advertise their hipness. The sticker will be going.

Think a 300d turbodiesel exhaust, straight pipped from the resonator back would be overkill?


Asheville.


I have some antlers that will go on in place of the star.

When I initially picked mine up, the down pipe was completely shot. I replaced it myself and drove it a few miles down the road for the exhaust shop to chop out the center section to straight pipe it back to the relatively new muffler. Let me tell you, the drive down there was absolute comedy as the sound was DEAFENING. I am talking NASCAR track, car alarms, reverberation off the buildings. It was all grins the whole way. Once the system was hooked up, it still growled nicely and had nice giddyup.

That being said, in contrast currently run a 68' Volvo 142 with just the center resonator, no muffler as it was all rusted out. The tone is similar, but a little louder and drones a lot more on the highway as the restriction is directly below the cab. I also notice that it seems to lack a little bit of the off the line torque that should be there and attribute it to the change in backpressure from a lack of rear muffler.

Long story short, recommend the center resonator delete over the muffler delete, unless you really want to drown out the ricers.

Poor car, yet another victim of the hippies-running-dirty-veg-oil crowd.

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

How dare you use the hippie word, I believe its the fault of the yuppie's.....hippies are to involved with medical marijuana to do such a think

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$800 4spd? Say no more. Had an identical one (with the electric sunroof too!) and an all time favorite. Cut out the center resonator and it will give a nice growl and seat of the pants pull out of the gate, and the manual idle control is great on cold mornings.

Nice roof bars. Where abouts in nc are you?

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Current fleet
2006 E320 CDI
1992 300D - 5speed manual swapped

former members
1984 300D "Blues Mobile"

1978 300CD "El Toro"

No hood star...I would have passed.

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I really need glow plugs. haha.

did this come with the spare 4 speed? i remember a mountain car advertised with a backup trans.

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1983 240d 5Sp SOLD
1986 300D(LUCO) SOLD
1983 300TD(dreamboat)SOLD
1984 240d (Executive)SOLD
1984 240d (Euripides) SOLD
1982 300sd SOLD
1982 300sd (Ambas)SOLD

Nope. Would have been nice if it had.

Picked up another beater today. Too cheap to pass up. Ended up giving 600 for it. I have no need for two cars, but I'm not yet sure which will be going.

Don Byer Volvo is in the DC area! I love seeing little tings like that!

peel the hubcaps offhand see if those wheels are steel or the lightweight aluminum steel lookalikes

you can use a magnet and the aluminums had a silver line around the raised center of the wheel

they would be worth the price you paid for the car!!!!