I found this on ebay several weeks ago and got it home a week ago. It has a few little issues, but nothing I can't handle, such as a few small oil leaks, an inoperative odometer, and needs the carbs. rebuilt. It was the car featured in the August 1990 article in Mopar Action magazine. I got it from a collector in Virginia who owned 91 cars- now he's down to 90. While it's a real hemi car, it has a 1970 hydraulic-lifter engine. It's not VIN stamped, so I suspect it's a replacement engine or replacement block. The engine is tight with no blowby, no unusual noises, and the exhaust is clean as a whistle. Should be about another three weeks until I get the personalized collector car plates.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

Here's the last one, a copy of the original Maroney sticker. Note the cost of the hemi option.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

That's a beauty!

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$60 OM617 Blank Exhaust Flanges
$110 OM606 Blank Exhaust Flanges
No merc at the moment

It should pass everything but a gas station. Congrats. A survivor, or restored?

A person could still afford to buy something hemi powered when i got my DL. Now.... Not so much.

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1959 Gravely LI, 1963 Gravely L8, 1973 Gravely C12
1982 380SL
1978 450 SEL 6.9 euro restoration at 63% and climbing
1987 300 D
2005 CDI European Delivery
2006 CDI Handed down to daughter
2007 GL CDI. Wifes

It was restored about 25 years ago, using a straight rust-free car. It has only gone 4K miles since the magazine article in 1990. The seller had it since 2002 and stored it in a climate-controlled garage. It was originally sold in NJ and ended up in NY. At some point, it was seized by the IRS. The person I bought it from bought it auction.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

Wow, what a beast of a car!

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Nice one - why is it a project though? It looks like it is done.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

How fast is it in a straight line and how bad is it in the corners?

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

That's "Monroney" sticker, btw.

Sorry, just had to do it.

Rgds,
Chris W.
'95 E300D, 428K

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Objects in closer are mirror than they appear.

It basically is done. It needs seat covers (included in the sale), the radio repaired, and the odometer repaired. Right now I'm working on the choke stove and getting ready to rebuild the carburetors, as the accelerating pump in the rear carb. is not working. It even has brand new tires on it with a fresh alignment, which it didn't really need. Every single light in the car works, right down to the instrument panel lights. When I find a reasonably priced heat riser repair kit I'll take care of that too.

The first one I looked at needed $15-20k worth of body and interior work, way more than I wanted to do. It was also "used up", despite having a rebuilt drive train.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

It should get to 60 in less than 6 seconds. It's more of a straight-line car, but it does have very stiff suspension. The transmission, suspension, brakes, and the body structure were specific to a hemi-powered car.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

Thanks. I wasn't sure on the spelling.

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

Beauty.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

Got the rear carburetor done today. On to the front one tomorrow. The pipes at the rear of the manifold supply exhaust heat to help evaporate the fuel. It doesn't have a heat crossover in the intake, so this is how they did it. It takes heat from the RH manifold and returns it to the RH exhaust pipe. I now have a working choke and fast idle system.

I haven't worked on a big gas burner like this in some time, and let me tell you, it puts out enough BTU's to heat a couple of houses!

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'83 300D, 126K miles.

Old School Gator McCluskey special. Dog dish hub caps and all. Almost 'frumpy' looking, it's so Old School MoPar Muscle Car.