Yes, we do. I'm half owner of a SWB 1969 600. Black on black 68,000 miles.
600 parts make Gullwing stuff look cheap. We've been lucky on this car because it was stored well before we bought it a year ago last spring. So far, it's been all smaller stuff but the register keeps ticking away. Paint and body work ( which was minimal ) will be well over 20K before it`s done. We were lucky enough to receive boxes of NOS chrome when we got the car as well as a fresh interior. All the engine tuning I had to do was an oil change.
Truely a masterpiece of automotive engineering. Air suspension, hydraulic windows, seats, trunk lid, several air flaps, front and rear heaters, LSD, dual point ignition, four piston front calipers, hydraulic over hydraulic brake booster ( you don`t ever want to have to fix that thing ) telescoping steering wheel, adjustable shock rate while you drive, climate contol ( of sorts ) all on one dial , aluminium upper front control arms, 300 HP, 453 foot pounds of torque and power steering that`s light as feather for a car that weights 5,400 lbs. The auto trans shifts so softly you barely even notice. It is, without question, one of the most impressive cars I`ve ever driven. And that`s saying a lot relative to the 300SL`s , Porsches and MB`s I`ve been lucky enough to drive so far.
Ron, my co-owner is a master with wood and there`s a pile of it on a 600.
And all these little tiny haydraulic lines running everywhere all over the car. The junction boxes are aluminium ( I think ) and each line that plugs into the box and is held in place by a U shaped clip that pushes through two very small holes drilled into the box. If a 600 is rusty all of that stuff will be seized and basically toast. This car had next to zero rust so everything came apart easily. We removed the doors, trunk lid, hood, and front fenders for painting, so all of the hydraulic lines had to be taken apart ( that run the windows ) and marked so we will be able to put it all back together again. I was also lucky enough to have a workshop manual and dealers parts book given to me after a friend of mine sold his 600 several years ago or it would have been very difficult to figure out how to work on this car. And I thought I`d never use those books.
Very strange moving the seat or windows and hearing....... nothing. The trunk lid which is aluminium, is opened by hydrualics with the flick of a button. Watch your fingers though because the lid closes by its own weight, and it`s faster than you would expect.
