how old were you when you bought your first benz? - Page 5 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

junker68 · #61 04-29-2004, 09:56 PM

Mom bought a used MB 300d from someone and I responded "what are you crazy. With all that mileage you'll be dumping money into it".

Well, I got it a few years later, reluctantly.

Now I'm on my second and I think it's the greatest car made.

Dwayne

junker68 · #62 04-29-2004, 09:58 PM

I forgot to provide my age, 37 in the last post.

Lycoming-8 · #63 04-29-2004, 11:42 PM

Was 25 when I bought the '61 190Db. Had looked at new 190D's or possibly 200D's during last year in grad school, but they were way too much. By the time we bought the '68 in Dec 1970, had become thoroughly indoctrinated to reading all German manuals etc. and was almost dissapointed that would no longer be necessary. Ha Ha.... Drove the 220D/8 for twenty years, even added a second tank in forward end of trunk for the oil crisis years. What great times, diesel 32.9c/gal......

jerryyoung · #64 04-30-2004, 04:22 PM

First Mercedes (1971 280SE 6cyl) at 60, first diesel (123 85300TD)at 65.

ekisgen · #65 04-30-2004, 05:00 PM

I just turned 29 and bought my first Benz last Sunday. It is a beautiful metallic charcoal (Anthracite?) over black MB-Tex interior. 1985 300D Turbo. The car really has character. . .I really haven't driven something quite like this. WUNDERBAR!

I am looking forward to driveing her for a long time to come.

Veloce300DT · #66 04-30-2004, 06:16 PM

16.. I inherited my moms C280, drove it for a year, put in 50K miles!
Then I bought my first w123 Diesel at 17.. a 1984 300DT. Beautiful car, put another 50K on in a year. Sold it with a desire for one in a different color and not willing to put the $$ it needed into it.
SO i used that cash and bought an 85 300DT. Midnight Blue. Amazing condition. Then my friend totalled it after I had had it for about 2 months. I scoured the newpapers and internet for the hopefully final and most beautiful 300DT.
Found the current Orient Red one I drive in San Diego. I'll never forget leaving the airport terminal and seeing the car waiting for me. 1 owner, all records, 145K miles. Looked as though it was put in the garage and never driven. Since then (june 03) ive put about 27K miles on it, and was backed into by a neighbor.
Ive brought the car up to perfect mechanical condition, and the next step once the money is all saved up will be to repair the bodywork (not that it needs it, but maybe even a complete respray for the hell of it.. which probabaly wont be for a while.. im not cutting corners, and as im sure everybody knows paint jobs are $$$$$ for quality ones), repaint the wheels or buy chrome ones, and drive it for the rest of my life. This one is not going away!

Fuzzball · #67 04-30-2004, 07:03 PM

My first Benz was the 280 SE 3.5, Diamond Blue with Blue velour interior.

I was stationed at Rhein Main AB Germany and financed it through my Credit Union back in Livonia Michigan.

Set history, first car they had every financed that was not in the country and first one they financed without holding the lein (how would they have collected anyways).

I was 21, it was 1982 and the car was a babe magnet.

adamb · #68 04-30-2004, 07:15 PM

My first I still have, a 1985 300d in great shape. I've had it for almost three years and put 60k miles on it and it's performed perfectly. I love it so much that I figured I'd buy another and fix it up for my primary car and sell my huge, gas guzzling truck. I was 29 when I got this first Benz, now I'm 32. I will own a Benz until I die.

arsoria · #69 08-20-2004, 06:59 AM

I was 32...1994 E320, great car.

BoostnBenz · #70 08-20-2004, 11:09 AM

Well I believe I registered here in August 2002, so that would make me 20 when I bought my first MB. I got fed up with my 1991 Grand Prix, money pit, so I wanted to try a diesel. I won the auction on eBay and picked it up a few days later in north carolina.

Anyway anybody see the new MB commercial? I forget the wording right now but it was something like anybody can be good to their car, but when your car is good to you then you will become a faithful customer to that company. This is kind of a joke on their new cars but they showed an old 300D (early 70s) with the grille just full of mileage badges, makes me want to go buy another MB. W123? W126?

rmmagow · #71 08-20-2004, 11:19 AM

I was 14. A 56 180D I think it was. Should have kept it as it was a great car. Since been replaced with a 58 220S (gasser). Now have 2 300 diesels.

jobah · #72 08-20-2004, 11:54 AM

I was 19 and purchased an '84 190D with 60k. Now at 34, I still have it, still drive it (along with a 123 and a 126) and it is 2 months away from 400k. Still runs like a champ (original engine with no real work).

Benzcrusher · #73 08-20-2004, 12:49 PM

33, although I came home from the hospital in the back of a '58 180 Ponton....

350SL4spd · #74 08-20-2004, 12:50 PM

I started wrenching on Mercedes when my dad brought home a red 58 190SL when I was about 11. I fell in love w/ that car working on it w/him and have never forgiven him for trading it for a 123 diesel wagon (and I would be much more sucessful now if I had driven that car to highschool and been that cool). At 13 I bought a busted-a** 68 Mustang (bullet proof straight 6..was very good to me)(sold almost two yrs ago now...I miss it) and at 15 I bought a (my first) '79 123 d-wagon ("beast"). Funny story about that car...I gave it to my sister @ about 200k mi and she drove it for a few years until the tranny dropped reverse and we sold it for about $1500. Two or three years after that I was looking for another diesel wagon and driving through another state, about 400 miles from home, and stopped at a MB indy dealer and saw a nice looking d-wagon. I sat in it and had one of those crazy deja-vu experiences, my head literally spinning because it smelled just my old wagon. I got out and looked at the rear...there was the bumper sticker that I had put on it nearly 6yrs earlier; it was MY car!! They had painted it a slightly lighter blue, fixed reverse, and only put about 3k mi on it....and were asking what I sold it for. Being the bastard that I am I talked the guy down to $1000 and drove her home. After several more blissful yrs (well...except for the time that, when cleaning under the rugs, I found that the only thing holding the drivers seat in was the rubber undercoating....) I sold her for nearly three times what I paid for her, to a guy starting a biodiesel company w/ just over 325k mi on her. I love that car... wow that turned into a rambling story...lol...

-Matt-

zeiglerr · #75 08-20-2004, 03:40 PM

I was 22 and bought a '59 220S "ponton" with a bad engine for $450. I was newly-married and it was our only car, so I disassembled the engine on my garage floor, had an aerospace company in Santa Barbara heliarc the head and plane it flat (they did it for free!!) and I bought a new set of pistons. Total cost for the repair was another $450, so for $900 I had a car that was like new. I wish I still had it!! If anybody out there has an ivory colored '59 220S with unique plumbing for the twin solexes (they were from a 300SL) give me a shout. The car was hatched in California but I sold it in Naperville, IL in about 1976.