Totally love your CD. Many years ago I had the opportunity to buy a lighter shade of blue 300D Turbo Diesel. I passed on the deal and have always regretted it. As years passed I found a 1984 E320 sedan in Spruce Green with a tobacco brownish leather interior. I quickly bought it and it proved to be one of the best cars I have ever bought. I have owned various Mercedes ever since.
"The greatest achievement in human history." How right you are. The people I have met who have been influenced by experiencing a W123 has been an experience itself. It is a cult seeing greatness in what is minimal, but properly executed. I have said that if someone drives a W123 chassis for 200 miles they will understand its humble greatness.
I rarely see the coupe versions of these 1970s MB. My neighbor has a 4 door. When I see a 2 door C123 at the MB shop next time, I will park by to see it.
My family had owned several old BMWs over the years.wonder how hard (Or easy) an ls swap would be? Had a 350 swapped jaguar that just wouldn't quit. Seems every Mercedes I've considered buying over the years has had some tweeker ruin the wiring or it was just beat by some kid owning it.
Nice and shame they didn’t bring the turbo version to the UK. Weird that it was only sold in US ehere diesel thanks to (then) cheap fuel never took off.
Not quite true. In USA MB was strictly a luxury brand, not a taxi car. They sold massive amounts of diesels enough to justify the W115 300D, W123 300TD, W116 300SD and the W126 300SD which were North America only
Nice! Love the color and looks to be in great condition. I have sedans, a 240D and a 300D. One day maybe I'll find a nice coupe. Are you in the Jax area by chance?
This is an excellent & reliable Coupe, what do you mean by rare? It’s been in the USA market in three different versions, 280CE, 300CD 5 cyl. diesel & 300CD 5 cyl. Turbo Diesel.
I don’t remember now, did I mention production numbers for diesel coupes, very very low. Maybe I don’t understand the question though as that statement is true of almost any rare car made in the 70s and 80s, they were new cars. Even new, there were times where only a thousand CDs were produced for a whole year, and now it’s 40 years later.
I'm from Europe and when i see those US spec Mercedes around they have something different that makes them prettier, the EU bumpers and lights make those look older, cheaper and miserable for reasons i can't explain.
Then you are either confusing it with the 4-door sedan or you have been doing far too many bong hits. Only about 15K of these were imported to NA from 1977-1985.
