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new to me 78 300D
A couple of years ago I bought my SC. The car was like a time machine, everything worked and there was not one original wire cut to add or delete anything. My wife fell in love with it as she has a great appreciation for 70s German cars. fast forward to last Thursday... A friend of mine ( a 90 Y.O. gentleman named Jim ) asked me if I would be interested in looking at a female friends car, a 1978 Mercedes. He bragged it up a bit. I told him with the new baby wasn't really in the market to buy a car. Thursday night my wife and I went to look at it just to humor Jim. Mrs Crusty fell in love with the car. Now it is in my garage, kind of makes my SC look like it was rode hard and put up wet. 140K miles Dealer service stamps every 3500 miles since new and it looks like nobody has ever even sat in the thing.
   
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11-01-2009, 05:11 PM
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I used to have a 300D. I loved it. I want another some day.
I sold it because I had to park it outside in the winter and it was a b**** to start. I really couldn't afford the maintenance at the time either.
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I always liked those. I drove one once and it was in bad shape, but I still liked it.
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One of my customers at my old shop had one....it finally died at 720,000 miles.
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These cars are indestructible. I had one for a while when I lived in Asia.
During the week I had a driver who took me to the office. On weekends we'd go on the most appalling roads, through jungles etc. and even forded rivers in this car. The punishment this car took was unbelievable. Hang on to it. Great car.
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Nice score.
I talked my MIL into buying a 240D a while back. --it's been great. There is something very zen about those cars. ...and the build quality is excellent, of course. --not like todays Dixie-cup cars.
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1979 Porsche 911SC
