"mjswee" (mjswee)
07/05/2017 at 10:45 • Filed to: None
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"mjswee" (mjswee)
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Last year on July 4th weekend, I traded my 996 in on a 997. This year, I bought a 1975 Mercedes 300D. I’ve always been a fan of the w114/115 and when I saw this one on Craigslist, I couldn’t pass it up. I bought it from a dealer in Cincinnati, who bought it as part of a lot of 10 cars from a collection in Tennessee. It has been resprayed at some point, and the paint is nice, but they did a poor job of masking.
The 90 mile drive home was a bit of an adventure. The stop and go coming out of Cincinnati caused the temperature to creep up, then when I went to pull off, I had no brakes. I got it into a church parking lot and stopped with the emergency brake, but then it took a while to find the emergency release. But after letting it cool down it made it the rest of the way home with ease (other then the occasional pumping of the brakes). And I even ran it in the hometown parade yesterday without issue.
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I have some work to do on it, planning on flushing all the fluids and putting new belts on it (and get a new hood ornament). Now I’m out of room in my garage as it joins another German diesel (335d), my 997, and my Sprite.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 10:50 |
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I grew up in one of those - a ‘74 that was powder blue.
fintail
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 11:10 |
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Nice looking 115, original color repaint? Oranges and reds were typical for these late run cars.
I’ve found that old MBs like to have a cleaned and maybe reconditioned radiator every decade or so.
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mjswee
> fintail
07/05/2017 at 11:15 |
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Yes, I believe it is the original color repaint.
I’m going to go through everything, including the cooling system/radiator before I start driving it on a regular basis.
Chris Clarke
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 11:30 |
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I had a ‘74 240D for a while which I also bought in Cincinnati. It was a giant POS, but I loved it and miss it dearly.
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fintail
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 11:35 |
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You should color code the hubcaps too, people seem to love that detail.
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mjswee
> fintail
07/05/2017 at 11:41 |
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Apparently they were color coded, but the dealer removed the red from the hubcaps to make it look more “modern”. It has a couple extra hubcaps in the trunk with the red on them, so I’m going to try to find a couple more and then I can swap them in and out when I want.
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fintail
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 11:57 |
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Yep, it was a thing to dress up the cars by removing the color. Color coded hubcaps were a thing into the early 80s. Most of these cars had them, but bundts were optional too. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to paint the caps back to their original form as well.
Kiltedpadre
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 12:02 |
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If you don’t mind saying what dealer did you buy it from? I work in the Cincinnati area and wouldn’t mind checking out a place that would have something like that on the lot.
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mjswee
> Kiltedpadre
07/05/2017 at 13:02 |
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It wasn’t a dealer in the traditional sense, more like a couple retired guys with a dealer’s license and some buildings in an industrial park who specialize in muscle cars. They only show cars by appointment and don’t really have a showroom. Clifford’s Classic Cars is the name of the dealer.
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Kiltedpadre
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 14:44 |
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Thank you for the information.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> mjswee
07/05/2017 at 15:08 |
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I have a w123 turbo, I would trade up for an older one or a TD I think.