Serious Offer or not?

[ZwoachtzigSL]

Hello Friends.


I have got an old Mercedes from the USA offered.
The seller says everything is original. What do you mean,
is the supplyer serious?


Detlef, Bad Homburg (Germany)



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Stern-Garage

[Cees Klumper]

From the color of the headlight lenses, this seems to be a French version and, if it is, I don't believe it could have come with the 'single fog light option', since that was only offered to Scandinavian countries.

Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

[66andBlue]

quote:Originally posted by cees klumper

From the color of the headlight lenses, this seems to be a French version and, if it is, I don't believe it could have come with the 'single fog light option', since that was only offered to Scandinavian countries.
Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

Cees, I have this nagging feeling that Detlef wants to know whether the truck underneath was an original option for the car  
but more likely, he is just pulling our legs since he lives close to Mainz where "Fassenacht" (known here as "mardi gras") is already in season and he needs to practice  :mrgreen:  

Alfred
1966 blue 230SL automatic

[Douglas]

Those must be the rare 15" wheels Fernando was asking about......

[Chad]

As you can see there are clearly more performance tire options for those 15" wheels.

1967 230SL (ƒ=m*acceleration)
1958 180D (ƒ=m*gravity)

[hauser]

This has been done on another Mercedes.  How quickly you guys have forgotten the jacked up 4X4 yellow SLK with a matching trailer.  Didn't the SLK circle the globe?  Or something to that nature?

1969 280sl 5 spd
Gainesville, Fl.

[Cees Klumper]

Yes there was that 4WD SLK that circled the globe, or as I recall at least large parts of it. I believe the couple that drove it wrote a book about it. But that SLK was a more subtle "conversion" than this latest example.

Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

[waltklatt]

Guess this is what happens when you don't change your subframe mounts and then the shocks get longer and longer till you need to put bigger wheels on it.  Wonder how the mechanic feels when he opens the hood to find the motor way down inside the pit of the engine bay.  Might need a ladder to get to the valves.
Wink!
Happy Holidays to you all!  And be safe with your pagodas and yourselves!
Cheers,
Walter Klatt