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Originally Posted by speeder
From any kind of collector standpoint, you would be destroying the car. (With a modern engine swap). Considering the low price of these cars, it does not really matter but on the other hand, it would now be an expensive car. That gets bad gas mileage. The cost of the conversion would buy one hell of a lot of excess fuel and the chassis would still be a 1960s design.
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Well the idea behind the swap would be to make the car more efficient (The E55 swap was just an example of what that local shop has done).
Still, I get what you’re saying, but what like Kaisen states, there doesn’t seem to be much of a future collectability for the non-6.3 W108s so I’m not concerned about affecting its value. Given the fact that I’m fairly monogamous when it comes to vehicle ownership, I worry little about the appealing to a future buyer rather taking an interest in what moves me. The tinkerer in me thinks it would be great to mate the timeless exterior/interior design with a more contemporary and effiecient drivetrain. Kind of what you see done so many times in the 911 world (albeit for somewhat of a different reason).
In the end, it’s just a $5,000 car that I think would be fun to bomb around town in from time to time.
