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JordaanDMC-12 · #1 11-10-2009, 11:40 PM

Finally we decided on a car and found this 91 300E for 700$.. It's a great little car, it just needs so some work and love.. Its past owner was pretty ghetto and spray painted the fog lights black, but it's all good.. We plan on getting some Euro lights for it in the near future. It also had the letters "GQ" glued to the back but those came off faster than lightning when we got it lol. It has 128,000 miles on it... Also it needs new tires, they're all dried up and it's a pretty bumpy ride!

Only two main problems so far are:
1.)Keeps stalling out when I drive it places
2.)Dash lights won't come on

Needs a bit of body work to get some dings out and the interior needs to have a good cleaning but it's a cool little car. I'm happy to be a w124 owner again.

Here are the pics..

G-Benz · #2 11-11-2009, 10:38 AM

Terrific find!

I would like to find a first car for my kid for that price! Do a little TLC and voila!

Mistress · #3 11-11-2009, 10:42 AM

wow, that's really nice.

Jim B. · #4 11-11-2009, 11:18 AM

I think that could be well worth the gamble for that purchase price.

JordaanDMC-12 · #5 11-11-2009, 01:19 PM

Thanks guys!

Yeah it's a great little car for the money, we found the problem for the dash lights this morning (need a new rheostat) and I THINK I might know what is causing the stalling, but I'll have to make some junk yard runs today! Of course the yard i'm going to has all 190E's! Not one 300E! Just my luck lol Thankfully they're about the same...

Although who ever had this car before oh my goodness, it's tore up from the floor up behind the radio, they did a horrible and unsafe job rewiring the radio and I'm bumping into wires with plugs that need to be plugged in but aren' all over the place. The left front speaker has been disconnected and there is another random plug unplugged and I have no idea where it goes

So i'll pretty much be working on it all day today. Hopefully get everything looking good

iwrock · #6 11-12-2009, 08:18 PM

Alot of the runing parts should cross over to your 300E.

Thats a good looking car. That color is awesome too. My old 400E was that color.

JordaanDMC-12 · #7 11-12-2009, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by iwrock

Alot of the runing parts should cross over to your 300E.

Thats a good looking car. That color is awesome too. My old 400E was that color.

Thanks, yeah I really like the color as well, that's cool you had a 400E! How was that? I've always dreamed about a 500E

JordaanDMC-12 · #8 11-12-2009, 10:07 PM

Well I went to the most amazing junk yard today in Fontana, CA. It had tons of 300E's and they had exactly what I needed. The past owner painted the fog lights black

and the grill had dents in it and was missing the hood star, when we first drove it home the hood puller thing that pops out was some speaker wire! It has one off a 190E at the moment which is why it sticks out.. I forgot to get the assembly for it at the junkyard, as soon as I get it though I'll replace it with the normal 300E one so it doesn't stick out so much.

what do you all think? I think it looks muuuuch better now!

I can't wait to get Euro lights!!!