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spots350sl
Veteran
Date registered: Mar 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Vehicle(s): 2003 G500, 1972 350SL
Posts: 222
| RE: Travelling for your G
UberXY - 6/1/2007 12:26 PM
I bought my G sight unseen from a guy about 200 miles away (I was in the hospital at the time ). So I traveled by foot to the end of my driveway when the flatbed arrived with my G. I think I may go on record as having made the shortest trip to get one. 
I think i win, we bought our G500 from our next door neighbor, our driveways actually touch (we are in the city)... ill measure in the AM |
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Photoman
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: New Zealand
Vehicle(s): 280GE, ML500, 280SE 3.5
| Re: Travelling for your G
I also bought my 280GE unseen - hang on! I've bought all three Gs without laying an eye on them! The 280 was a flight then a 1000km drive and a 3 1/2 hour ferry crossing. I hadn't even seen a single picture of it....
Both of the 300s I bought over the net from Japan, only seeing blury photographs taken in an auction room. Ahh the risks we take fixing an addiction.
My next G I'm flying up to Japan 
Edited by Photoman 6/2/2007 5:49 PM
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mortinson
Expert
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: Madrid, España
Vehicle(s): '98 G300TD LWB, '98 E300TD Saloon
Posts: 1355
| RE: Travelling for your G
Well, not exactly travelling too much to get my Gs but doesn't mean that they haven't travelled....
I bought my first G, a 1984 300 GD SWB manual in January 1996 in Madrid while I was living in Benavente, a town 260 Kilometres north-west of the capital of Spain. I drove it back home worried about all that it needed to be done, but happy nonetheless to finally own a G. In September 1998, we moved to the UK and the G was brought in the trailer of the lorry where all our belongings travelled. I sold that G in October 2003 to a Romanian living in Ireland who planned to take the KHD car to his hometown in Transilvania.
In the meantime, I bought my current G -a 1991 G300D SWB manual- in January 2003 in England, from an American guy who has bought the car in Germany six months before that with the intention of taking the car with him in a move to Eastern Europe. That move never materialised and the guy was sent by his company to Australia instead, automatically making his LHD G surplus to requirements. We then moved back to Spain in September 2005 and the G was again loaded in a lorry together with all our stuff to start a new life in sunny Spain, far away from the wet winters of Northern Europe.
I intend to keep this one for many years to come... |
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clavos
Veteran
Date registered: Jul 2006
Location: Centennial, CO USA
Vehicle(s): 1983 MB 300td, 1986 MB 190E 2.3-16, 1984 MB 300GD
Posts: 145
| RE: Travelling for your G
I was not against traveling for a G. I pulled a trailer to Clevand to get my 16V. My G lterally fell into my lap. It was towed in to the Dealer I work for while I was at lunch one day. My boss called me on the nextel and said I have to see what just rolled in. I owned it less than 24 hrs. later. |
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Maxwell Smart
Date registered: Dec 1899
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| Re: Travelling for your G
Some great stories here. Seems also to be a lot of brave souls buying Gs not only sight unseen for their purchase but even without having ever seen a G in the first place!
Yup what we do for our addiction.... |
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roughneck
Expert
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: UK, Germany & USA
Vehicle(s): 270 cdi.300 GD 300 GE.lwb 300 GE.swb. Disco 2
Posts: 4398
| RE: Travelling for your G
All are completeley mad, as am I. |
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T.Schuhe
Elite Veteran
Date registered: Apr 2006
Location: Olympia, Washington State, USA
Vehicle(s): 460 1985 LWB 300GD five speed
Posts: 711
| RE: Travelling for your G
Harald, I suspect that I have those very tires in my basement that took you to the top of that hill. A great story. Best wishes, Tom |
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