How it all began

I got the SVO (straight vegetable oil) bug way back in April of last year.  I don't know how exactly it started, but I still remember sitting in my statistics class, looking at mid-eighties Mercedes diesels and being utterly obsessed.  I was getting the itch for a project at winter was once again loosening its frigid grip on beautiful Cache Valley, as well as searching for a car that would become my daily driver after I passed the keys to my 2007 Subaru Impreza to what was my fiance, and who is now my lovely wife.  In high school I had driven a 1985 280CE every day for nearly two years and loved every nuance, headache of the Mercedes 123 chassis.  I also gained an appreciation for the genius of German engineering in these cars, and then I found the Diesel.

Growing up with gasoline, diesel engines were a mystery to me.  So when I started investigating a 300D I took a YouTube crash course in diesel automotive theory.  I also found the incredible story of a Mercedes 240D with almost 2 million miles on the clock.  Check it out here. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-9-2004_pg9_7