Looks like I finely get a Mercedes. I have spent all of the weekend looking at /8 Mercedes and it looks like I located a candidate. It’s a rust ball like all of the others I have seen but this one; don’t ask me why, I really won’t to keep it.

The car was only 1 registration but in getting from shop (once again the /8 survives longer then 1º owner). The funny thing about it is that according to the shop the 1º owner wanted a diesel engine and at the time it wasn’t available. So Mercedes Portugal, grabbed a 220 sedan gasoline W115.010.50 and installed a 3L diesel engine, 617.910.10. It is all in the original registration and property papers, and the job it’s so professional that I would say it’s a production line car.

What I find so strange is that according to what I have checked there is no 3L diesel engine being sold in 1972 so is it possible that this conversion was made in 1972???

Was Mercedes building this engine for other models???

Any tips will be welcome, thanks