diesel or petrol?

B14, B172, B19/200, D16 engine, ignition, cooling, fuel & exhaust system, gearbox, variomatic, final drive... | Tuning: engine swaps, welded diff, clutch upgrades...
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rinter
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Post by rinter » 15 Dec 2004 05:06 pm

redline wrote:wow !!! thats between £800 and £1000 for one of our beloved cars , who fancys starting an export business up ? buy for £50.00 off ebay and sell for £1,000 to the ukraine (buyer pays postage of course ). not bad for a days work LOL
taxes would exceed the sale price here :shock:
that way we would not earn much :roll:

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Post by redline » 15 Dec 2004 05:29 pm

yes and the small detail of shipping and mileage to consider, oh well thats another get rich quick plan gone down the drain
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Post by Duvel78 » 20 Dec 2004 10:32 pm

The diesel version is popular in Eastern Europe (Poland...), it's certainly the most economical version of the 300 series there.

Everybody knows it's a slow car... but the engine isn't bad at all, there is a saloon in the scrapyard here with 350.000 km! sm40
Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
Dad's cars: '87 340 vario, '89 340 vario
Lot of donors cars and parts...
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