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2) front speaker upgrade

A few more things before I drive the car to Melbourne: 1) SLS fluid flush before Removed the old fluid, refilled and started the flush. Flow is low so an easy one person job. ZHM is cheap at sparesbox changed the filter while I was there as it was a bit dirty. After flush, fluid...

The W123 230 and 250 W123's developed a reputation of being quite troublesome, plus being very thirsty and under powered. The ADR restrictions made the carby setups overly complicated and it took quite an expert to make them run properly. The 250 in particular was known for leaning out and...

The 280E looked nice, but had a quite bad rust hole above one of the rear jacking points. Given it wouldn't have required a lot of paintwork, the sort of thing that would have been better to fix before selling the car if the seller wanted a good price. the 230 was a carby import and they...

This was on today. I took a few pictures while I was there: https://www.classicjalopy.com/2023/10/2023-german-car-show-sydney/

you have to check them just after the auction as they remove them for some reason:

Ha ha that is the alignment shop. Alignment guy liked the w126.

Fitted a new drag link, after making the mistake of not checking that the RHD part is different to the LHD part and now had the car aligned for the drive to melbourne. Glad I got it done, as my hoist blew a gasket soon after and sent fluid everywhere. Will have to look into getting it serviced.

I went out to see the 560SEC with a friend today at lunchtime who was going to bid on it. Needless to say we were not impressed and he will no be bidding.

He's been active on facebook, so assume he is ok.

Tim's old 300SE for sale again:

This month's lloyds offering: The pick of the bunch is the 88 560SEC which looks in reasonable condition, attractive colour combination and the 220kW UK version. The 250/8 is a basket case, the 450SLC isn't great, nor is the 450SEL. The 58 220S is ok, but I'm surprised the bidding...

I've just fitted a 123 ignition distributor to the car. No, this has nothing to do with the W123. 123 ignition is a european company who make a brand new electronic distributor with many applications. For example they have a model that replaces most lucas distributors too, one for the...

This got a max bid of $6400 on grays. I wonder if the seller will take this or try yet again.

yeah other than a couple of exceptions (e.g. Pagodas), collector car prices are back below pre-covid. A lot of sellers have not yet adjusted to that yet, so cars stay for sale for months. Auction hammer prices are showing that buyers are just not willing to pay those prices anymore.

Hammer prices:

That's a good sign!

Ah, ok. Well the main thing they all need is new flexible fuel hoses. If you can get it to run well in the 350SEL body, then it may just transfer over as it is. These cars often got parked due to terminal rust rather than engine issues. The D-jet system is more complex than the k-jet...

I've never heard of anyone get a mercedes V8 to run well on carbies, and a few have tried. Not saying its impossible, but have never seen it. Since they never made a carby version, there are no factory parts. If you want to V8 swap your car, I would personally buy a K-jet motor. K-jet...

Manual 280SL project: https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/213917761497278/