Hello Everyone,

I just wandered into the forums and thought this might be a place to get some good advice on my newest purchase. Between my wife and I we have 10 cars and there seems to be no end to the collection. I came across this 1983 300d by sheer luck. I work for a classic car dealership and the shop next door had this w123 sitting behind there shop for about a year. One day they had their flatbed behind my shop with a wrecked van on the back and a sad looking Diesel Mercedes ready to be wheellifted and hauled to the scrapper.

At the last moment, the shop guy came into my place and asked if I was interested in buying the car before they brought it to the Junkyard. Be it for me to let a German car go to waste. What I didn't realize was this was a rust free car with only 87,000 miles on the clock. Yup, thats right under 100,000 miles on a diesel Benz with no rust about to go to the junkyard. Well, I could just hear the car whispering "Save Me" - We we made a deal and the car was mine.

I pushed the car to the back on my shop, gave it a bath, vaccumed it, and put a charge on it. Wouldn't you know it, she fired up with no hesitation. The deal just got better.

So now the car is at Exclucive in Lakewood, NJ getting checked out since I don't know the first thing about Mercedes Diesels and I figured it would be a good thing to have the car checked by a specialist.

It will need a new windshield and paint. The bumper strips are in the trunk. Once it gets back from Exclucive, the car will then go to my paint guy and get a fresh coat of the factory teal color. Here are a couple pictures. The last one was right after I made the deal, they decided to remove the vine from the grill and had to retighten the wheels as they were going to remove them.

Side note - The tan 1977 BMW 320i in the background is also mine.