Only voted CP because of the price. $14k is a bit dear, even if the car’s in damn-near immaculate condition.

A diesel that burns no oil is a diesel that doesn’t run at all. Am I right? CP!

14k is alot for a 30 year old Mercedes diesel wagon..

“Nice car. How much?”

Love the W124, love that it’s a wagon, love that they still came with rear-facing seats in that era, love the color, love the detailing job, love that it’s under 100k miles.

As a dude who digs old Mercedes, this wagon has been on Craigslist in every city across America for the past six weeks. A low-mileage one is a unicorn, but they don’t have the appeal of the w123 wagons. He can’t get his asking price, apparently. And if what you’re selling is cool but not selling, your price is too…

Yeah, they lost me with those horrible chrome fender thingies. CP. No one that puts those on their car deserves $14k.

And if you don’t have the financial resources to cover said medical care on your own will you accept being left on the side of the road to your fate?

It wasn’t that odd. Those staring their car in the winter to warm up used to just jam their foot on the gas and turn the key, not even getting into the car (Carburetors you know.) Needing to get in, fasten the seatbelt was a PIA when you would just remove it and get out to grab coffee, clear the car of snow, etc.

Just take a moment and think about this in light of our modern standards. It seems absolutely insane. This was a safety advance that had a proven record of being effective at getting people to wear safety belts, but nobody wanted anything to do with it.

What’s with this “there was once a time” nonsense? We don’t have interlocks *today*. People *today* don’t want them, either. They are a bad idea now, and were an even worse idea in 1974 when they would have been implemented with a tangle of junk relays and switches which would have been absurdly unreliable. 

No, it had a weight sensor. However, putting a heavy package or something on a passenger seat would trigger the interlock.

That’s why, thanks to “a substantial number of complaints sent to Congress” a 1973 law that required seatbelts to be fastened before a car could be started was eliminated in October 1974.

I am with the folks from the ‘70s. I always wear a seatbelt when I’m driving somewhere, but there are times where these systems annoy me. Here are a couple of examples off the top of my head:

I was in my single digits when this happened, but a couple things I recall from the seatbelt interlock debacle was that

Systems like this fail eventually. Why add another way to get stranded somewhere due to a sensor failure? Cars back then weren’t shining stars of reliability already!

I won’t fly in, out or through IAD for anything. I don’t care if it’s a free ticket. DCA, BWI, even a train ride to Newark to avoid IAD. So I can’t even imagine what it’s like to work in that place day in and day out.

This is the dulles story of the year.

Virginia’s minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, matching the federal threshold, but some workers at the airport earn as little as $6.15 per hour plus tips, reports AviationPros.

Call me an old curmudgeon, but if you want a raise, do something nobody else can do. I think that minimum wage is at least fair, but holding your employer hostage is a little too snowflake-y for me. If you want more money, go do something worth more money.

Ergo, they are both wrong.