"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
09/26/2019 at 22:30 • Filed to: Dots
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fintail
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/26/2019 at 23:04 |
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280SE 3.5 cabrio on blue plates dating to roughly when the car was new, looking like it is driven regularly. That’s a life.
190E wagon thingy looks like a render kinda.
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> fintail
09/26/2019 at 23:08 |
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I think they took the dash 16 body from the real sedan and put it on a wagon. The Mercedes had an old guy driving, it’s Marin County so I wouldn’t be surprised they are the original owner .
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fintail
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/26/2019 at 23:15 |
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Maybe they shortened the wagon a little, too - if it is a real car, it has to be a labor of love.
I think that plate prefix might be late 71/early 72, coinciding with the end of production for that car, so it could be an all original machine. Not a bad investment, keep it for ~50 years, enjoy it, still get more than 10x your investment in return (not counting inflation of course, but wages sure as hell haven’t increased by 10x for most people) .
AuthiCooper1300
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/27/2019 at 07:23 |
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That 190E surely is “photoshop coachbuilding”. Those rear lights look slightly funny, as if they had been cropped. Good luck handling a 2.5-16 Evo in the snow with those tyres too.
I am not into that kind of Merc but the SE looks magnificent .
I have a nice story about the 4 5 6 Venice. T w e n t y y e a r s ago I was working at a tiny car magazine out in the boondocks, and definitely wanted to write about them. Called Ferrari, who were very nice and told me to call Pininfarina (the original cars had been bought through them). Called Pininfarina who were even nicer – extremely nice, even – and went through a perfect plausible d e n i a b i l ity spiel, because, you know, special customer (although they more or less implicitly acknowledged they had built them).
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