Folks i learned to drive in a 1951 plymouth and took my driving test in a 1966 Ford Ranch Wagon with stick shift on the column and overdrive about 1970
Then i mostly drove air cooled VWs with a bad luck Audi 90 wagon and a few american pickups thrown it, for the next 25 years. We even ran a VW shop and probably rebuilt 100 engines, personally. About 1985 someone pointed out a Peugeot diesel wagon, 504, aBOUT 1976. I bought that and spent the next 5 or 6 years messing with peugeot diesel engines in 504 and 505 cars, mostly wagons. They would all have cracked heads at about 100k miles. Anyway, Peugeots are very nice cars. Finally i got smart and switched to Peugeot gas cars. Turbo or non turbo, i never had a major engine problem with a gas peugeot (only a few water pumps, hoses, etc) and i drove them up until 7 or 8 years ago. A good friend had a very nice 1982 300td that he was ready to sell. I bought it probably about 2000 or so and gave it to my wife to drive. Pretty soon it was mine and since i'm 8 or 9 years into the WVO experiments i continue to use it as my daily driver although i have 3 or 4 other diesel mercedes on the road. Mercedes has by far the best old diesel engines, at least in the 123 cars which are all that i really know. I much prefer the comfort and handling of a nice Peugeot 505 wagon. So, for me, i guess a 617 engine in a peugeot wagon would be great! thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
