![]() The best restored cars are now trading in the $40,000 range. That's where the driest W123s have been hiding, often in plain sight, and it's still possible to score a tidy untouched example for not that much money. This has made the W123 the target of search-and-rescue missions, with the growing Industrial W123 Complex vacuuming up a big portion of unsalted cars everywhere west of the Rockies, from Seattle to LA. The W123 sits in a sort of in-between space: It's still common to spot very worn examples on the street, but increasingly they're popping up as subjects of pricey (but not too pricey) restorations. The example seen here is a 300CD Turbodiesel, offered stateside starting in 1977 and lasting through the 1985 model year, shortly before the arrival of the next-gen W124 generation. (Very rare) (Very rare) price 145.00 for the 82' 250 for the 81' wagon. We're accustomed to seeing the W123 in sedan and wagon form-often accompanied by the telltale rattle of a diesel engine-but the W123 range was more varied than that and included a sharp-looking coupe. W123 Instrument Cluster Have two one has only 145k miles on it out of an 82' and the other is from an 81' wagon and has an electric speedo with only 84k miles on it. ![]()
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