Can anyone help me with a paint code? I am re-doing my 85 and want to paint it this color. I know many of you don't aprove of color changes but with Wisconsin salt/rust I am not "ruining" a classic.
Thanks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4565963759&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

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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

Go to paintscratch.com and fill in the Make and Year of your vehicle.

Good Luck,
Tom

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1993 300TE
1984 300D
1984 300SD
1976 BMW R90S

Is there something wrong with your eyes? It's blue!

I'll run the VIN through the EPC when I get home and post the paint code. Or someone will beat me to it.

Sixto
95 S420
87 300SDL

Heres something that might help, some text I wrote for MB Garage newsletter. I like Nautical Blue personally (because my newest acquisition is that color):

"Mercedes has always “shown their colors” when it comes to painting their cars.
No other car manufacturer has come close to the achievements in color that Mercedes has. Looking at just one of the popular colors groups (blue) we find 65 different paint codes, although a few are the same colors re-formulated to modern paint standards.
Not all of these shades are available on new cars today but if you happen to own a Mercedes that was painted with a discontinued color you can still have it repainted with paint of the same shade, thanks to color codes, a system that allows paint manufacturers to produce a particular shade at any time. Raising the hood on any Mercedes you will find a code plate, on it are various codes that identify the body style, options, type of engine, interior colors, paint color and even where the paint was made.

Looking over the descriptions of some of the various shades it is obvious that Mercedes has worked hard at making available a great variety of colors for discriminating car buyers. We wonder what shade Picasso or Monet would have liked best if they drove a Mercedes?"

BLUES

312 labrador blue
317 grey blue (graublau)
320 blue (blau)
332 dark blue (dunkelblau)
334 light blue (hellblau)
335 mercedesblau
341 aquamarine blue (aquamarinblau)*
345 orion blue
348 ice blue (pearl blue) (perlblau)*
350 medium blue (mittelblau)
352 bahama blue
353 light blue (hellblau)
353 platinum blue (recent)
355 diamond blue (diamintblau)*
356 light blue (hellblau)
359 tanzanite blue (tansanitblau)
359 capri blue (recent)
366 azurite blue (azuritblue)*
380 delphinblau
387 blue (blau)*
396 medium blue (mittelblau)*
420 light blue (hellblau)
900 deep blue (surfblau)
903 blue (blau)
904 midnight blue (dark blue) (dunkelblau)
906 grey blue (graublau)*
917 aqua (aquablau)
920 deep blue (tiefblau)
922 pastel blue (pastellblau)
929 nautical blue (nautikblau)*
930 silver blue*
931 magnetite blue (magnetitblau)*
932 lapis blue (lapisblau)*
933 deep-sea blue (tiefseeblau)*
934 china blue (chinablau)
940 marine blue
941 (aragonitblau)
945 lapis blue (lapisblau)
946 aegean blue
949 cascade blue (kaskadenblau)

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'95 E320 Wagon my favorite road car. '99 E300D wolf in sheeps body, '87 300D Sportline suspension, '79 300TD w/ 617.952 engine at 367,750 and counting!

That is 940, or marine blue. Thank you MB Russia VIN decoder!
-Joe

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

That's a nice color... post pic's if you go for it....
I was thinking of turning my 300D into a Woody...like the old beach cruisers.... Anyone ever do that???

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'87 924S
'81 280SEL

Sold ->

81 300SD -
93 300E w/ 3.2
85 300D-
79 300SD
82 300CD
83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."

Mine is Silver. I want to change to the blue. The link I posted was just to show the color I want to go with mine.
I am deffinately repainting it, the only question is if I want the extra work of door jams, trunk jams, under the hood, etc, that goes along with it.
I am starting the work this weekend. I ought to get a digital camera for pictures.
My car is nothing special, it has the typical issues. I got it so I could run homebrew Biodiesel in it, so far 14 weeks on B100. Thats about 8000 miles.
I would like it to last another 5-10 years. My jack points are pretty solid but my wheel wells are gone. I have a metal fabricator making me new ones.

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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

The original paint code for the VIN is 940.

Sixto
95 S420
87 300SDL