My, oh my:

1980 Mercedes-Benz 300CD Coupe Diesel 57,000 miles Original Owner

Doesn't look like a Turbo model, but boy doesn't that look clean!? Original owner, too, but what a price, though -

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1987 Mercedes 300SDL; SOLD
1985 Mercedes 300D; SOLD
2006 Honda Pilot - wife's ride; 122K;
1995 Toyota Land Cruiser - 3X locked; 182K

Looks very nice but I don't know about 18K nice!

WoW! Looks awesome but agreed that 18k is huge.

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

former members
1984 300D "Blues Mobile"

1978 300CD "El Toro"

Blue interior. If Merc had never made blue interior, I'd be much happier.

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77' 300D, "Cartman" SOLD @ 150K (didn't know what I had)
83' 300SD, "The Superdon" 325k+ @ 28mpg
95 E320 wagon, "Millennium Falcon" 231k+ @ 24 Mpg
95 E300D, "Sherley" 308k @ 33.69 Mpg, currently anticipating a head
99 Suzuki Intruder "Trudy" @ 45 mpg

Given what 18K could get you in the used car market, even the used mercedes market, that price is ridiculous. You could probably buy a beater W123 and pay somebody else to retore it to an equivelant status and still not pay half of that.

"One owner" benz prices are absurd to the point that I automatically ignore them if I was looking for another one.

Low mileage thirty year old cars are another red flag for me. Either the odometer is screwed, the seller is dishonest, or it sat in storage for decades and every hose, seal etc. Is buggered and lots of things will be "frozen" and will all start failing soon after regular use.

Bought my first 123, a 77 300d from a guy just up the street from there. Less than 60k miles also. Paid $3k or $4k for it. Non-turbo in CO is not a good idea. It's why the 77 I bought had such low mileage and I'm guessing it's a similar situation with the CD. He got tired of driving over the passes at 20mph.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

amen!

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'77 240D, 504H, OM617.952, etc.

Way to much coin for a non turbo model with the horrible evil servo unit....and I agree with the others, blue interior is not Mercedes best....but least its not baby blue exterior and blue interior...that's enough blue, to leave me blue.....I often wonder why black interior Mercedes, are so hard to come by....

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As clean as it is - and the miles $9500.00 is the best this can do.

Yeah, I'm afraid the demand for diesels is much weaker than these sellers realize. Time will show that ...

bunts on a NA... leather interior still in good shape is very rare, so I'll bet it's really low miles, the dash wood is zebrano not burlwood, so not sure it's original, but it may only be the turbo models that are burl... blue dash not cracked, so it's been garaged. no underbody pics... hiding rust?

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My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Its on eBay as well, with a higher price tag and a lot more photos...

Mercedes-Benz : 300-Series 300 CD in Mercedes-Benz | eBay Motors

Add my commits to the more photos....

Dash is cracked...
Car is running a tad hot....
Original main fuel filter...
Original primer pump....
Some grime under the hood that I wouldn't suspect...aka power steering pump...
Original plastic servo...
Knee panel screw covers missing, indication someone's been behind the cluster...
Door handle worn out...
Front windscreen gasket appears to have a crack,,.
Something going on with chrome passenger side window molding...
Carpets a little more worn then I would expect...

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X2 The next thing worse than abuse is non use. A good two hour blast at greater than 55/MPH every other month does wonders.

If it's been in CO it's whole life, it wont have any rust.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

That looks like MBTEX to me and the fleabay add shows cracks in the dash and a rip at the arm rest. Looks like an excellent restoration to me.