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Boneheaddoctor
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Date registered: Jun 2006
Location: Hells half acre (Northern VA)
Vehicle(s): '79 300SD, '83 300D, '75 Harley-Davidson Chopper
Posts: 310
| Scarcity of W123 cars in Europe
Hi there, been away for a while as I had been in Italy for the last month. Curiously I was looking for other W123 models there....any in fact. In a city of about 250,000 I saw a total of 4 W123's. Two were 200 modles...one was unknown as it was debadged was well as a 4th I saw while driving in the opposit direction. And I traveled the streets a lot. Disheartening there was that few on the road. Have not seen one in a junkyard there in over 10 years as well.
Edited by Boneheaddoctor 9/7/2006 8:17 AM
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Dieselburns
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Date registered: May 2006
Location: New York, Long Island
Vehicle(s): 78' MB 300D 87 Chief Cherokee
Posts: 2251
| RE: Scarcity of W123 cars in Europe
Well in my opinion that there are a lot of w123s in europe, you just got to know where most of them are. Italy I don't think they will be there! Though Germany most of them are taxi cabs., and I here a lot of them are in the middle east.
I seen a lot of mercedes w123s in El salvador, so I guess there around the latin countries, in south and central america. I
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BenzDieselTuner
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| Re: Scarcity of W123 cars in Europe
its true, all the foreigners have bought up all the German 123's and shipped them away to Afrika, and the middle east........ |
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BenzDieselTuner
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saus! |
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TheDon
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BenzDieselTuner - 9/7/2006 4:45 PM
its true, all the foreigners have bought up all the German 123's and shipped them away to Afrika, and the middle east........
most noticably by their "Zoll" plates... and then youve got the dreaded TUV(in deutschland).. my car would be deamed undrivable by the TUV with my small spot of rust |
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zeq
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If you see the Isreal-Lebanese war on CNN that day- You see many Lebanese citizen use Mercerdes benz 123. |
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BenzDieselTuner
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its true! |
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Ed Mclass
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Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Vehicle(s): 1958 180a, 2010 GLK, 2000 G 500, 2005 SLK 350
Posts: 1215
| RE: Scarcity of W123 cars in Europe
There are three here for sale for $2,000 each. High miles but good old diesels. Yellow 1983 240 D. Gray,1983 300 D, and a Blue 1985 300 TD. They are getting harder to find. There are still a few left around, but the wagons are really hard to find! Even the rusty ones are brining $5,000. |
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BenzDieselTuner
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wow |
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TheDon
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plus the TUV in germany is pretty strict so i hear |
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Boneheaddoctor
W123 Host
Date registered: Jun 2006
Location: Hells half acre (Northern VA)
Vehicle(s): '79 300SD, '83 300D, '75 Harley-Davidson Chopper
Posts: 310
| Re: Scarcity of W123 cars in Europe
Well 15 years ago there were at least 15 or 20 W123 taxi cabs in that city....today none...and trust me I drove the roads a lot on my bike over there looking. its not like they were parked either. Hell I can find more than that withing 2 miles of my house and I am not in the city. |
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