[V8] Not many. Or maybe it's heresy.

[Roger M. Woodbury]

Well, we are nearing the last days of The Black Mariah.  I had a close call
with another 200 20Valve Avant from Audifans, but the car got sold before I
could even receive all the pictures.  Perhaps another on is simply not to
be.

I have been hunting hard for another V8, although my enthusiasm is waning
for another V8 unless I can find one that has pretty low mileage, and it
must be a 4.2 litre car.  Pretty hard at this point it seems.

But The Black Mariah will end her daily driver days on July 1st, unless I
decide...repent...and do the rear shocks, and spend a bunch of time that I
don't have tweaking behind the instrument cluster so turn off the annoying
warning lights that would keep me from being inspected.  New tires, too, of
course.  But I keep coming back to the simple fact that the car runs so
damned well right now that replacing it will be very, very difficult.

Then there are the other fascinations.

I found an interesting website recently.  The guy buys and resells Mercedes
diesels.  Right now he has an '85 300CD.  Now, the W123 coupe is another one
of those cars that I have always wanted to have.  Some people believe that
the W123 Mercedes diesels were the best general purpose automobile ever
made, and if the anticorrosion properties of the bodies were better, I would
be one of them.  Here in the northeast that is an issue as is winter
driving, so the best use of one of these cars is for three seasons only.  

Anyway, the CD that is currently for sale is a California car from delivery,
and has 30,000 miles verified from new.  It is absolutely amazing. It is
also ALL the money, and more than I would pay for ANY car at this point.
But it is tempting.  

I have had five Mercedes diesels.  I have wondered if I would want another
one, especially one of the W123 cars, which are really old.  My use of the
car will change over the next two years or so, and the use of the car will
be for fair weather touring mostly.  Not a bad choice, and Mercedes still
supports the cars pretty well.  

But how about a very nice V8?  The fuel cost won't be much of an issue as
our mileage should drop from the 400 miles per week in two cars to half that
or less once we move into the new home....at least that is the plan.

IF there is another very nice late issue V8 out there, I am on the hunt and
will be looking to buy something beginning next month.  So far the only low
mileage V8s seem to be waiting for someone willing to pay what seem to be
very big dollars for them.  So, a V8 or a CD?  Good ones will be about the
same dollars.  

Dunno.  

Pondering as usual.

The trouble is that I would like one of each....

Roger

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