300AJC said:

That's a bloody miracle! In my experience anything around 100,000 is low for what is, at very least, a 15/16 year old vehicle.

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It was registered August 1996.
To put it in perspective, around the same time as original owner was buying his new 300TDI, I would have been shopping for a new uniform in preparation for my last year at primary school. hehe!



Even with 71k on the clock Nicola and I have still had to throw in excess of £2500 at it in parts and paint to restore it to something that resembles a nice tidy standard (save for the grille) road-going example and it's still not finished.

As you rightly point out, all D1's are between 15 and 25 years old and firmly at the bottom of their depreciation curve.
I think you've got to really want a D1 to buy one and throw money at it at the moment.

Was that once a cat where you have parked the nearside front wheel?

ps Nice looking motor tho.

I've recently struggled with the same question recently and was lucky enough to find an early D2 'S' model so I've got no electrickery to worry about, no sunroofs to leak on me and generally been a trouble free (fingers crossed) bargain which I'm having loads of fun with in the local quarry. One thing I have noticed is how much the D2 parts have dropped recently compared to a few years back, making them far more viable than ever before.
Choice is always yours but I know which way I'd go.