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View Poll Results: Which W123 metallic colour would you choose?
Original 480 Manganese brown 45 32.37%
Cyprus green 876 12 8.63%
Anthracite grey 172 19 13.67%
Blue green 877 14 10.07%
Lapis blue 932 23 16.55%
Something else (please say) 26 18.71%
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Old 09-24-2014, 09:39 PM
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Original color or Petrol green

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Old 09-24-2014, 10:30 PM
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I would go for one not listed or mentioned as far as I know; the Ikonengold (Icon Gold) Mercedes Benz Code 419. One of the great colors Mercedes used along the seventies, I'm actually restoring my 1978 450SE (W116) with it.
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Old 09-25-2014, 12:10 AM
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Easy choice, manganese brown. The mercedes greens are awesome and my other choice would be the orange that I don't remember the specific name for, but none of those are original to this car. Brown is very good.
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Old 09-25-2014, 01:17 AM
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My husband and I owned a Mercedes/BMW repair shop for over 30 yrs and we always heard to never change the color of an investment car....it will decrease the resale value. Do you care about resale...will you ever let this beauty go?! He did go down to the metal on a tii and have a little different shade of green put on it....it was magnificent and for my enjoyment, not resale. I did vote for the brown...you don't see many of them. I have had 2 silver 300Ds and thought they were an ordinary color...now have my second navy one and think it looks hot (recently bought it with a new paint job). You are about to have a brand new 123 that's perfection....Congratulations....I have absolutely no doubt you will joyfully drive it for many years!
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Old 09-25-2014, 02:48 AM
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Original!

I would stay with the original color. They're only original once!
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Old 09-25-2014, 06:12 AM
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Oh my giddy aunt!

When I first saw this thread I thought "who on earth has stuck a rocket up its backside?"

Then I saw this =>

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Stretch, be prepared for a new onslaught. This just got sent out in the PP email blast.

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Amazing response folks - so thanks to the Pelican and everyone who has contributed so far...

...all I can say is that I'd better get all that welding done now!
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Old 09-25-2014, 11:04 AM
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...all I can say is that I'd better get all that welding done now!
It also sounds like you need to go buy some brown paint too
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1983 300D color

I had a 1981 240 D that was Walnut brown non metallic and I loved It with the Palomino interior. Since that is not a 1983 300D color I would vote for the original Manganese Brown. I am now proud of a completely restored 1983 240D labrador blue.
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Old 09-25-2014, 10:38 PM
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Petrol!

That color is "Old Mercedes" to me - whatever color you choose it looks like you've gone through to much work to keep the original color, that would be a bit anticlimatic. If your up for a challenge how 'bout iridescent pearl white? now that's classy....
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Old 09-25-2014, 10:41 PM
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I say Manganese is final decision. Rare enough as it is. Most I see are gloss walnut brown.
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Old 09-26-2014, 12:12 AM
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There are many colours to choose from, but being period correct is important when it comes to reviving the cache that the w123 has.

If you are keeping the cream coloured interior, you really need to maintain a shade similarity on the external panels, or go for a completely contrasting colour.

Manganese Brown is a richer shade similarity while something like Citrusgrun metallic (DB874) is a striking contrast.

Cypressgrun metallic is another nice contrasting colour, and looks fantastic on the sibling TE - but again, it is a colour preference thing.

Bold vs understated.

Both will be eyecatching if well executed. Kudos for the bold colours offered early on in the model run. the late 70's solid colours like cayenne orange, incarot, mimosa yellow, caledonia green are all very 'rare' colours compared to the boring taxi colours.

China blue (DB934) has always been a favourite of mine on the w123, especially with a light interior like palomino. It's quite classy indeed.

After all, I think that is the desired effect also - to create a classy youngtimer look, and perhaps if you are sick and tired of looking at Brown shades, then the only way to really get away from the earthy tones is to turn to something completely contrasting....

signal red (yeah I know... but it is RED and RED ones go faster) 568A - circa 1987 looks great with palomino.
Believe it or not, Smoke Silver (a 1985 colour, quite rare on w123) DB702 looks very good on a sedan with a palomino interior.
(I took out 1st place in 2011 @ mb act club concours class award with a rauchsilber / palomino 1985 w123 280e)

Ultimately though, there are 2 schools of thought. Early colour schemes and late ones.

The early colours - the bright vibrant highly contrasting solid colours, and the late subdued shade variations which blend seamlessly with the interior colour.

Also, some other things dictate the overall aesthetics - headlights for example... early sealed beam round lights vs rectangular euros, or the round euros
bumpers... sorry euro bumpers it has to be on a w123....

deck lid badge option delete. Only if you have a 200 or 230 and you want everyone to think you have a 280e... otherwise leave it on. anyone with a TD should remove the hideous turbodiesel badge from the right side. it is disgusting.
300D is a nice badge to have.

No chrome wheel arch trims.

Colour coded hubcaps or Bundts - it's an originality thing. Personally If I were to do another w123, I'd look for some m100 hubcaps and have some wide steelies fabricated to 'fake' a stock look, but bundts are fine....

All time favourite colour scheme? Has to be DB406 Cayenne Orange with a Mahogany interior.
Very 70's. Orange & brown. Have a look at this:https://www.flickr.com/gp/zipzamzerpople/v3B587/

80's look? has to be DB568 signal red and palomino or cream beige

90's look? DB269 Tourmaline green and a cream beige interior.

I deliberately stayed out of the darker red / cabernet colours as there are very few that look good on a w123. And they are a difficult colour to 'get right' on the panels. but.... if you want the dark reds pajett red DB587 is the one to go for and looks awesome with palomino or cream beige interior.

good luck with your choice - it is a difficult one as there are so many awesome colours on a w123.
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Old 09-26-2014, 03:46 AM
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That color is "Old Mercedes" to me - whatever color you choose it looks like you've gone through to much work to keep the original color, that would be a bit anticlimatic. If your up for a challenge how 'bout iridescent pearl white? now that's classy....
I've ruled out lighter colours because I'd then have to change the interior. For example I think white with palomino would look pretty daft.

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I say Manganese is final decision. Rare enough as it is. ...
Could be!

(I'm prone to doing rash stupid things at the last minute though)
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Old 09-26-2014, 02:25 PM
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I am bias to the metallic brown. Mine was resprayed I would guess 15-20 years ago with more metallic pigment. At the right angle, the sun light makes that wagon pop. I have found people staring at it and asking about the color. At first I was not to hot on the color but it has grown on me.

If I were to change the color on mine, there was a cinnamon metallic color on Volvos in the early '00s that looks period correct and would look right at home on a w123.

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Hey Stretch,

You made it on the Pelican Parts Spam email list!

I got this news in my inbox...





EDIT: Whoops! I guess I am late to the party... But I voted months earlier....

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Old 09-26-2014, 09:05 PM
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I agree that manganese is a special color, but if you are really digging a unique color, I love surfblau (900). I had a w126 in that color and it is absolutely stunning, even better on a w123.

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