Question???

[terry shores]

In 1971 did a first aid kit come with a 280sl or was it an option?

Thanks

71 signal red 280sl
as close to perfect as you can get!!

[Douglas]

It was always optional, but IMHO, it's not a very attractive add-on. And a word of caution: most of the kits you see on ebay are for later R107 roadsters. I think the kit you want is the green one and not the white one. At least that's how I recall seeing it in the optional equipment brochure.

[terry shores]

Douglas, could this be the right one??
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ORIGIONAL-Mercedes-1971-280SL-First-aid-Kit_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ42606QQitemZ4608307524QQrdZ1

[Chad]

Not sure whether that's it. But there is a holder for it as well... it looks cheap and is made of blue plastic and would be fitted behind the passenger's seat according to two references I have. I don't have one but have seen it several times, they were green maybe. Apparently that was offered early on, so maybe it could have preceded the safety regulations-inspired major design change period of 1967.

[Douglas]

Here's a photo of the first aid kit as pictured in the 1967 Special Equipment Brochure. The holders I've seen (and I own one) have been black.

I believe it's pictured in a sedan (I think there isn't enough space in a Pagoda to put this piece in the footwell.)

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Douglas Kim
New York

[Chad]

Does your look like that one Douglas?

[Klaus]

The First Aid Kit would have option code 222.
MBNA sourced the kits for the US version cars in the US (not sure about the early years, but in the later 70s from a company called American White Cross. The reason was that the German kit did not comply with US regulations, since it contained some medication - for which the dealers would all have to be licensed pharmacies - and deadly weapons, like scissors for cutting the gauze strip. The US kits therefore were largely different from the rest of the world.

Klaus
1969 280 SL

[Douglas]

My holder looks like that, but I think my kit is the standard white box that Klaus referred to.

Klaus -- was a first-aid kit mandatory in some European countries?

[Klaus]

Doug,
its mandatory in Germany (StVZO Par. 34h) but I don't recollect when that became law.

Klaus
1969 280 SL