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We had a Favorite DOTS Mercedes-Benz poll a couple months back, and the '65 220SE won handily. Looking at the list, however, I realized that I'd overlooked the W115 cars, so it was time to go out and shoot one on the island. You Mercedes-Benz experts are going to have to help us figure out the exact year on this one; I'm pretty sure it's from the 1971-73 era, but that's about as close as I'm going to get. The 220D had the four-cylinder diesel, not the legendary Mercedes-Benz 5-cylinder , but these cars still racked up astronomical odometer readings. Unstoppable reliability is great, but the 220D's engine delivered a not-so-peppy 57 horses. For a car weighing 3,000 pounds, acceleration required a great deal of patience on the part of the driver. And at a list price of nearly $6,700- 200 bucks more than a new '73 Cadillac DeVille- you had to be thinking long-term reliability over short-term performance when you bought a 220D. Hey, how many of these cars still...
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As everyone predicted, the Triumph GT6 obliterated the Porsche 914 in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll . British Leyland versus VW? We've been gearing up to have an epic Britain-versus-France PCH Superpower Showdown ever since a Lotus knocked the crown off top dog Italy's dome , but it's only fair to give PCH SuperBeaucoupPower France a warmup round against Germany, just as the Brits got. Thus, we have today's matchup, courtesy of PCH Tipster (and T-shirt winner) Anaxomander . We saw a Hell Project Mercedes-Benz 6.9 just a couple weeks back , but when you run across a JFG car for just $1,500... well, you know it's PCH material. This 1978 Mercedes-Benz 6.9 (go here if the ad disappears) is such a car. Just a grand-and-a-half? How can you go wrong here? This car's Craigslist ad features one of our all-time favorite descriptive lines: "Has mysterious problem." Just ponder that one for a moment; is there any problem that such a fiendishly complex machine...
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With its crypto-Jimmy Smith soundtrack and groovy-looking driver hurling the big 300 through the twisties with, it's no wonder that foxy fräulein is digging on dude's choice of car. And who wouldn't? The W109 Mercedes-Benz was quite a machine!
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The early-70s ship of love in this German-market ad doesn't have fuzzy dice, but it does have bongos in the back. We dig the groovy soundtrack and outfits, of course, but the sight of big ol' German cars roaring around a banked track makes us even happier.
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