I'd love to find an old TD wagon (I'm sure I'm not alone). The enormous sound of those diesel engines always sounded like fine music to me.
I'd love to find an old TD wagon (I'm sure I'm not alone). The enormous sound of those diesel engines always sounded like fine music to me.
Yep - They’re getting a bit chintzy these days.
How European.
Who cares.
May be reliable and well made, but look like refrigerators to me. Square boring, utilitarian appliance.
Not mine but simialr to mine. I have a V6 w/ manual trans. After 200K miles it seems like it is just getting "broke in".
The design still looks good 40+ years later.
“”The enormous sound of those diesel engines always sounded like fine music to me.””
I used to live on my bicycle, riding it to work, school, doctor appointments, everywhere. You always knew when this car was near by the very distinctive diesel engine sound.
Great car. It would be good to get a YouTube video narrated by an English speaking person, rather than by an east European strip club owner.
This sedan, and the generation before it, are what I think of when I think of Mercedes sedans. Ever dependable, roomy, and well-engineered.
Either due to bean counters or regulations, MB lost their way.
Ah, for the days when German cars actually had style.
I have 2 1967 SE’s.
Many memories..
South central TN seems to be a place where people won’t give up their 95-04 chevy blazer/s10 suv/pickups. Relatively compact and easy to work on. I have two of them, both 4dr 2wd. An 01 and an 04. The 01 has 304k miles and still has the original drivetrain.
I trucked enough when I lived in the midwest to know that 4wd doesn’t help much when running road tires. Proof was all the 4 wheel drives I’d see in the ditch and midians with only a couple inches of wet snow.
My then-girlfriend (future wife) owned the gasoline version in the same white color and sedan body style. It had a stick shift which, one night on a date, got stuck in second gear. It was great fun driving home 40 miles in second gear!
There was nothing worse in that era than getting stuck behind a diesel car on CA-50 from the Bay Area on the way to Tahoe in winter. The acrid diesel stench was awful and made your eyes water and your throat sore. It was so bad you’d have to pull over for 15 minutes for the fumes to clear from the road and you’d pray you wouldn’t have the misfortune to get behind another stink-mobile.
No, the late models of the W108 that preceded it were better. Essentially the same car as the sedan in the top picture, but with a 4.5 liter gasoline engine crammed in and in the “L” models backseat legroom and comfort unmatched.
I never saw a “D” that didn’t roll coal and smell like a truck.
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Cousin had/has one other than baby blue its a great car.
Yessss, I know this car, well. It’s the automobile that teaches patience, with the diesel engine starter light. The doors were large and heavy, with a distinctive “thunk”, hermetically sealing you in. The seats were large, top quality leather which felt like sitting in a huge catcher’s mitt. It drove like a luxury tank, only comparable to the Bentley of the time - or like tacking a sailboat on the road.
Bought my ‘85 Mercedes 300 TD in 1991 from a Lexus dealership on Long Island, NY. They had taken it in on trade for a Lexus.
One owner with 51K miles on the odometer. Today, 30+ years later 248K miles. Have kept it in immaculate condition all these years and occasionally show it in local car shows.
I had one of those! Took it on many adventurous camping and ski trips before I gave it to my brother during my nasty divorce.
He loaned it to his wife who went out drinking with a friend. Wife says she’s too drunk to drive, so tells her drunk girlfriend to drive. All is going well until wife starts puking, distracting friend who piles it into a barrier.
Car did it’s job, not a scratch on the two drunk cows inside. That led to my brother’s nasty divorce.
Good times!
Tractor seats. Put 450k on my 80 non turbo it’s still running today I just got sick of driving it