The point of this thread is the pants, stop talking about the car already.

 

I don't doubt it wasn't maintained well and I'm not saying you shouldn't expect at least 200k out of one, however i wasn't gonna get it out of that one. I guess I'm spoiled, I'm shooting for 1 million miles on my diesel LOl. Like I said I'm really leaning towards getting a cheap shell in good condition and doing the w123 diesel in it. we'll see.

 

Back when our vert ran, I enjoyed top down winter days, with the heater blasting. Good stuff!





And I thought you wore pants like those all the time?

 

When he's wearing pants, but that hardly qualifies as "all the time."

 

you will then have to drive 100k miles right away to make up the money lost doing the swap

 

No, no. The money spent on the swap buys a lot of fun and a manly sense of accomplishment when it's completed. The savings on fuel and maintenance is just gravy.

 

Not exactly I buy the thing with a blown motor I'll 2 or 3 grand ahead, the difference between the cost of the motors is next to nothing, it's not like I'm saying I'll buy one with a good motor and do a swap, I'm talking about buying something with a good body, bad motor and doing the swap. The addition 10 miles per gallon and the fact that the benz diesel is the most reliable engine in the world (look it up, it's in the guiness book of world records) with minimal maintenance are just icing on the cake.

 

About the only thing that would really need doing is the driveshaft would have to be shortened, the transmission is the same and will bolt up fine, the motor mounts would have to fabbed, but going from the v8 to I-5 would require shortening the driveshaft. I've actually read about a few people doing it. I just don't really want another project, so it's really nothing more then talk lol

 

the old benz I used to see come and go from my friends shop usually the engines outlasted the bodies.



Maybe florida might be better, but I bet alot of those benzes down there started life up here, then Rubenewitz moved

to the promise land and brought his benz with him.

 

A lot of them started down here, at least mine did, it's been registered here since day one and I am the third owner. But yea we get a few rusty northern cars down here now and again. Actually the benz rusts in the same place the vert do... the drains. If you keep the drains clear yer fine, if not you get cancer.