This 1982 244DL followed me home the other day. Guy was asking $2500; got it for $1800. When we were first married we bought in 1982 (light ivory) for $2500 and simply loved it. We only got rid of it when our second child was on the way. Both are/were 4-speed manuals with electric overdrive.
A few months earlier my daughter saw a picture of her mother standing next to ours – I think the day we bought it – and she remarked how “hipster” it was. So when I spied for sale down in Silverado Canyon, I figured what the heck.
It’s first test was the drive home, an hour of some of the worst stop and go traffic in Southern California, and it performed flawlessly. The plan is to fix a lot of little trim things, add in a Bluetooth/USB charger/amp/speakers, get it good and road-worthy and then let my daughter drive it around the streets of San Diego until she next deploys. Then, who knows...
Circa 1988 I think:
