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Prices for old cars are set by just one group of individuals, who have sole jurisdiction and complete authority to dictate these prices...they are called BUYERS.
Not sellers, not appraisers, not club members, not museums.
and you need MANY buyers to agree on the price....just one sale doesn't cut it, because there are always imprudent people with too much money.
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but, you know, buy what you like and be happy.
I'd certainly rather have a 300 Turbodiesel, or a W126 300SD. 10K for a mint 20K mile 300SD wouldn't be insane, IMO.
A 220D is literally DANGEROUS to drive on a modern road--it's like a Model T, only noisier :P
I've said it before .. my folks owned a 220D (automatic!) back in the 80's.
Oh. My. Gawd. 0-60 could be timed with a sundial.
Solid as a rock, however.
I got them vanity plates for them as a Christmas gift:
REAL SLO
Could be worse, imagine a fintail or ponton diesel. Those things probably can't hit 70mph.
I fail to see the charm.
You are probably right. In the mid-'60s my mother's cousin, who lives in Northern California, drove his 190D fintail up to visit us in the Seattle area. I didn't think much about it at the time but in retrospect I can't imagine it. The car was built like a brick s**thouse though. Even in my mid-teens that impressed me.
2009 BMW 335i, 2003 Corvette cnv. (RIP 2001 Jaguar XK8 cnv and 1985 MB 380SE [the best of the lot])
I am in the Fatherland right now, and there are still lowline W124 diesel taxis in service.
I am away from home now, in the land of weirdo cars. There's a Dacia Logan wagon parked in front of my hotel. Saw a hardtop MB Adenauer wedding car, a 70s 911, pristine 900 turbo, Lancia Dedra (I think), much unloved mid 90s Scorpio, Renault 19 convertible, and an 80s looking Honda Africa Twin.
Not much odd today, but saw a 2CV, Ferrari 412, 80s Sierra wagon, and a MB SLC doing a bit of a power slide in the rain in downtown Cologne.
About 500 cars entered, and great to watch - providing the rain holds off...
Speaking of low models, I have been peeking in E-class taxis. About 80% of them are manual, including 2012 models. Saw another W124 still doing taxi duty today, and a few oft-derided W210s.
Odd cars today: Nice W123 coupe, very early Espace, 924, 70s Beetle, 90s Explorer,
And something parked on this street is unlike the others:
Hope there aren't many DNFs with that many vehicles running this year. I remember that the Weiant's Locomobile did finish back in 1959 but it took a bit over 6 hours. :shades: How many people are expected to turn out to see the event? Should be fun to watch rain or shine. Have a good time.
Today saw a Corrado, a 2002 Baur cabrio, a 70s Citroen DS, and have seen several MB C124s thhe past few days.
I find this configuration a bit odd, but that's just me I guess. Maybe I'm just having Triumph Stag horror flashbacks.... :P
The partial convertible design is odd. Maybe gives more structural rigidity.
sure, if you chop the roof off a car, you are essentially cutting the top off a hollow pyramid.
Not to mention better roll-over protection. In the early 70s lots of people thought that more stringent safety regs would doom the traditional ragtop convertible. The '76 Eldorado was assumed to be the last ever made by the Big Three so a lot of basket hoop and T-Top "convertibles" came out.
Thankfully they were merely interim stop gaps
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Every once in awhile I'll see one of those '91-96 Park Aves out and about, and nowadays I think they actually look pretty petite. Length-wise, I don't think it's much different from my 2000 (around 206" long I think), but the '91-96 was much more tapered in the front and back, and no doubt narrower and shorter.
Most cars here in the states have plumped up quite a bit since the mid-90's, so that might be one reason those '91-96 models seem smallish to me. Of course, in Europe, I'm sure they're mastodons compared to just about anything short of a bus!
I also saw a Chrysler Cirrus the other day, original 1995 style, those are thin on the ground even in the US, not to mention here. Small cars here are the majority, and some are very small. A real economy car here is a scooter, which are also everywhere.
The '97-'05 generation is an improvement over the '91-'96, which borrows heavily from the squared off body '85-'90 platform.
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I actually really liked them when it returned for 1977. Nicely done package, for the time.
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And a snapshot from the competition cars area, with a nice fintail rally car in the foreground.