1981 Mercedes-Benz 300SD

31 CommentsPosted as: ClearPOST COMMENT July 24th, 2024 at 5:30pm ESTJim_Rosenthal (96) 1Oh, boy. Can't wait to see that one, if it appears here. July 24th, 2024 at 5:04pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 0@Jim_Rosenthal The cleanest Malachite Green W124 E420 -- like Dean Laumbach nice. Going through the ignition system with right now and it'll be listed next month. I might not sell it just yet. I'm on the fence and love driving it. July 24th, 2024 at 4:51pm ESTDougsCars (12) 1@Agschmidt Definitely bringing my GoProJuly 24th, 2024 at 4:50pm ESTAgschmidt (1) 1@DougsCars you’ll see it at the farm this weekend!July 24th, 2024 at 4:39pm ESTJim_Rosenthal (96) 0I think that was a deal, and I wish I had had room for it. Sigh. What do you have next? :)July 24th, 2024 at 4:27pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 1@Agschmidt Congrats! Happy it's going to a good home. Completely bittersweet ending. I'll reach out! July 24th, 2024 at 4:25pm ESTDougsCars (12) 1Can't wait to see it in person @AgschmidtJuly 24th, 2024 at 4:18pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 2Good luck to the bidders! I'm here for any final questions. We added up the invoices and we put about $8000 in parts into the thing. Every system has been touched and brought back to new using quality parts. I have a gallery of a few extra hundred pictures that I'll send to the winner documenting in nerdy detail all of the things we fixed. We just didn't want to blow up the gallery with pictures of that stuff. July 24th, 2024 at 4:11pm EST$7,500 bid placed by @AgschmidtJuly 24th, 2024 at 4:05pm EST$7,250 bid placed by @ItsaSmithThingJuly 24th, 2024 at 4:01pm EST$7,000 bid placed by @AgschmidtJuly 24th, 2024 at 12:10pm EST$6,700 bid placed by @VIGILJuly 23rd, 2024 at 4:39pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 2With the auction ending in 23 hours, please feel free to PM me or comment below. Again, more than happy to have a phone call with interested parties. Thanks everyone and good luck. July 23rd, 2024 at 6:09am EST$6,000 bid placed by @AgschmidtJuly 23rd, 2024 at 5:28am EST$5,500 bid placed by @GysnlJuly 21st, 2024 at 8:17am ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 0@tbssd They’re addictive and incredibly satisfying to own/drive. Some pictures have been uploaded documenting the trans rebuild. We went deep and replaced every seal. Photos have been uploaded. Here is what we used for the steel clutch packs: https://www.ebay.com/itm/283338012105 Here’s what we used for the friction rings: https://www.ebay.com/itm/225215844437?itmmeta=01J3AK6HH57KN5EC3M1VF0033Q&hash=item346fe91055:g:VpcAAOSwJ6BjUvMW&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwNs6nSXE7AHJdhU6lV9HtvpZWeXx6IdJUe467k%2FaANfV%2FipMvoUul6YOG8IboOFjgbgnY2pXm90DzoGSlq0xc7UY5o0HP2S6avz0ZOVUIsXzKO4HKxeq1ZBrIEq5sJJuKwODRF5Qn%2FHMMBsIuvYFObdmn%2Bp%2BMZg4AFp427ldzPcJaCy1LROcNAQacJh54X6xYiDzQOWboZ5RDDyv016k1NoKj0KIimGDj3j92JUWyhPiQOxRPP1jGFwoKWIaAN%2FBEA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR86YmtOaZA The seals were an Elring master kit mixed with some NOS MB stuff we have stowed away. Superior Transmission Parts Shift Correction Calve Body Kit Genuine MB Vacuum Modulator as well. Those are some of the important bits. July 21st, 2024 at 1:07am ESTthembmarket (691) 0Photos documenting the transmission rebuild have been added to the gallery. July 20th, 2024 at 6:53pm ESTtbssd (2) 1Thanks for the information. It’s a great example of an Atlanta car. I will look for the pictures later on. Great presentation , tremendous detail, wonderful pictures. I’ve been looking at these 100’s of this model cars for 30 years and currently own three sd’s. July 20th, 2024 at 3:18pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 0@tbssd 1981 was the switch over year when Mercedes-Benz started to treat the horsehair. I had the seats out of this car when servicing the rails and doing a deep clean and there's wasn't a pile of brown dust underneath. The pad is not degraded, is still supportive, and intact. What's happening is there is a thin fabric membrane attached to the back of the MB-Tex where the stitching attaches to which has just been damaged from the wear, hence the delaminated seat ridges. I will provide the parts invoices and photos of the transmission build to the gallery here. I have a bunch of that logged on my phone gallery. Give me a day or so and The MB Market team will upload those here shortly. I'll tag you when they are up. Thanks for the thoughtful comment. July 20th, 2024 at 2:19pm ESTtbssd (2) 0How are the seats? A lot of 81 cars had trouble with horsehair or whatever breaking down like the 116 cars. How are these? Crunchy and dusty or good? Was the transmission rebuilt with all of the improvements made later in the 126.120?July 19th, 2024 at 9:14pm ESTJim_Rosenthal (96) 0That gray car was outstanding. July 19th, 2024 at 3:34pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 0@Jim_Rosenthal I have no idea how this one is going to go. It’s such a unique example with the Herculean effort and detail we put into restoration on an otherwise “normal” classic Mercedes. https://thembmarket.com/1972-mercedes-benz-280se-4-5 This was also our car that we restored. Same effort was put into the 300SD as our 280SE. All we can do is sit back and see what happens. There’s nothing logical about what we did to this W126 other than we just really really love these cars. July 19th, 2024 at 3:08pm ESTJim_Rosenthal (96) 0Still a bargain, but I don't think that will last. July 19th, 2024 at 3:03pm EST$5,000 bid placed by @AgschmidtJuly 19th, 2024 at 2:36pm ESTStuttgart_Steel (492) Seller 0@markwilson It's a milled metal cap that deletes the EGR on the OM617A. Over time, the EGR will clog up the intake manifold and in some instances that debris will shoot into the engine. It also increase the cylinder head temp to give a little bit more power and better gas mpg usually increases up to 1-3 mpg more. These OM diesels run better with this little modification. https://www.doomsdaydiesel.net/product-page/om617-egr-deleteJuly 19th, 2024 at 1:52pm EST$3,750 bid placed by @markwilsonJuly 19th, 2024 at 12:59pm ESTthembm