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[email protected] Samba Member
Joined: February 12, 2003 Posts: 510
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: Germanic vehicles... |
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I bought a 1983 240D a few years ago from the original owners estate, had set about 12 years or so, had a local mechanic check everything then did a fly and drive of about 850 miles. I had retired about then, so spent a bunch of time watching youtube videos, picking the brain of a local independent mechanic, offered to pay him for his time but he just said if anything I wasn't" comfortable doing, bring it to him, which i did some. Took about a year of fiddling and learning, but now it's running sweet, then I spent 2 months cleaning, polishing everything over and over, even sweeter. Now my wife drives around like she is the queen, all told around 6K in all, but in my opinion, it looks brand new, and absolutely no rust at all. This car will outlive us. |
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Mos6502 Samba Member
Joined: December 30, 2015 Posts: 727
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Germanic vehicles... |
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Honestly surprising how many 240s are still out on the roads, especially considering they didn't really make a huge number of them - yes they made a bit over 2 million - but it took them almost 20 years to make that many. |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22573 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:37 am Post subject: Re: Germanic vehicles... |
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Lots of 240s but the 850s and V70s were more fun..
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Zeen Samba Member
Joined: July 24, 2004 Posts: 1308 Location: The Sunny Part of Michigan
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 6:05 am Post subject: Re: Germanic vehicles... |
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Paging Tram.
They include the original diesel engine for the new owner to torture themselves with.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1961-mercedes-be...2020-04-29 _________________ The consequences of your decisions should not be confused with fate. |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22573 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:11 am Post subject: Re: Germanic vehicles... |
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That’s off topic, it doesn’t even look Swedish _________________ .ssS! |
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Floating VW Samba Member
Joined: April 28, 2015 Posts: 1596 Location: The South Zone
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Germanic vehicles... |
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A few years ago I answered a want-ad in the newspaper for a European Car shop in California looking specifically for an air-cooled VW mechanic.
"Hey, that's for me!" I said.
My first day on the job, they had me change a broken exhaust valve spring in a Porsche 356, which wasn't ACVW, but it was close enough. My second day on the job, they had me putting a new radiator in a Vanagon- not air cooled, but still VW, so that's cool. On the third day, they had me changing the timing chain on an '86 Mercedes six-cylinder diesel- neither air cooled nor VW, but still made in Germany, so why not. I like a good challenge!
After a few weeks of working on everything from old Fiats to Bug-eye Sprites and even a classic Ferrari (none of which were air cooled, VW, OR German!), an old VW Beetle finally rolled into the shop. They promptly gave it to one of the other mechanics and put me to working on a Ford Explorer. Hell, that's not even European! Next day, I gave 'em my two weeks.
The German stuff just calls to me, for some reason. Everything else is nothing but a collection of nuts and bolts. _________________ "It's time you started treating people as individuals, rather than mathematically predictable members of an aggregate set, regardless of how well that works." |
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