From the stories I’ve heard, I don’t believe that one of these has ever moved under its own power for more than 5 minutes at any one time since the day they were new. The last one I saw was in a pick-n-pull and I told my brother “take a close look, this is probably the nicest one you’ll ever see.”

Fuel pumps are easy; they’re external on these cars, not in-tank. Just FYI, though, should you go shopping for a 300E/TE: the M103 gas I6 has a bit of an appetite for head gaskets; they rarely make it past 150,000 miles without a bit of coolant seepage. Other than that the cars are basically solid if they’ve been…

Absolutely. Stuff’s nothing like the garbage that GM slaughtered entire herds of wild Naugs for in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Never understood why people bitch about vinyl in German cars.

All W124 wagons, the W126 560 only-in both coupe and sedan form-and the 190E 2.3-16v got rear SLS, yes. Honestly, parts can be expensive but repairs usually aren’t too difficult unless someone’s been in there doing stupid shit before you. The systems are also generally robust; in 4 years as a service adviser at a…

Nice price if that’s the extent of the rust and you want the parts car with it. A clean, rust-free TD should run about $7-10k last I checked.

That’s not leather. It’s MB-Tex. Looks like leather, feels mostly like leather, but unlike leather it will be here-still looking and feeling like the day it was installed in the car-after the nuclear apocalypse. Leather was optional on the e-class at this point; very, very few diesels got it.

I’m fortunate to have regular access to a W221 S600 and S65, as well as an F10 M5-sure, not a direct competitor by price, but it is by performance and weight-and I’ve driven the current A8 and S8, the Panamera Turbo, and the Jaguar XJ Supercharged. I was also a service writer at an independent German car shop for a…