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Originally Posted by Palolo
Hasn't the copyright expired?
They're pretty useless cars anyway. Can't take them to Costco or Home Depot, can't valet park them, can't lend them to the neighborhood summer camp as a field trip vehicle... Useless, I tell ya'...simply useless.
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Those cars are solid enough where they would last although the luxury appointments such as leather etc. would wear over time.
Biggest issue is soft engine parts such as bearings, since MB took the cheap way out unlike Hispano Suiza and used babbit half-shell bearings. HS used needle and ball bearing kits like the Citroen A engine or the Saab 95 3 cylinder or the Panhard sports cars. You could practically run those on Mazola oil because the actual friction was so much less between hardened steel ball-bearings and crank or con rod surfaces.
The only thing that saved the existence of the flat bearing was the improvements in the technology that enables better bearings with imbedability and new designs.
That plus the odd-sized tires. I have machined hub adaptors for my antique (1930's) Citroen since it's too expensive to find odd-sized metric tires and tubes, then get them exported to the US. The machined hubs enable use of 165-15 rims and tires. Big savings, since I need 15 of them!