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Junkyard Find: 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D With 417k Miles

The Truth About Cars

If you owned a car that had traveled more than 400,000 miles during its life, could you bear to send it into the cold steel jaws of The Crusher ? Here's a very solid Mercedes-Benz W123 oil-burner that now languishes in a self-service boneyard in Phoenix, Arizona. 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300 D W123 in Arizona wrecking yard.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

The Truth About Cars

I first met& “Perry” at a Honda dealership& in Louisiana in 1986. I last& heard he was at a luxury car& dealership in Arizona in 2014. Instead, each store has a revolving door of general managers, whose “owner” — the dealer group’s headquarters — is typically hundreds& of miles away. I was wrong.

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