220D Race Cars at 1969 Nurburgring 84 Hours Race...
 

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I'm guessing they didn't win.

Many more interesting photos in the Kurt Wörner photographic collection at:

https://revslib.stanford.edu/?commit=Limit&f%5Bcollection_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Kurt+Wörner+Photographic+Collection&f%5Bmarque_ssim%5D%5B %5D=Mercedes-Benz&page=8&range%5Bpub_year_isim%5D%5Bbegin%5D=1969&range%5Bpub_year_isim%5D%5Bend%5D=1969&search_f ield=dummy_range&utf8=✓&view=detailed

Awesome photos!

64 cars started the race. 19 cars finished. One MB 220d finished 17th. And one MB 220d finished 18th. The only car which finished the race at a slower pace than the MBs was a Elan Racing Team Daf 44 (a 34 hp, 2 cylinder engined car).

DAF 44 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1969 Nürburgring 84 hours

Check out the knobbies on this car from the same photo collection:

https://stacks.stanford.edu/image/th...2.2_0007_thumb

That's funny!!!!! :laughing:

Pull the bumpers and fuel door off a '69 220D, add 4-Lucas beams, and put on a crash helmet, and BOOM it's a race car?! HA - HA!

We had one of these new in 1969 too! :D

Wow it is pretty impressive that any car finished

The race was dominated by small displacement (under 2 litres) engines with a few exceptions => a TR6 a BMW 2500 and an IKA Torino

All of the cars that finished had been running and moving round a 28 kilometer track for 84 hours.

Oh I don't know, a 220d probably did it with no sweat. Driving one flat out is the normal way to drive one.;)

That much is true. When I had a 240D it spent a whole lot of time with my foot to the floor. On its last big road trip before I cannibalized it for the transmission (Carson City, NV to Atlanta and back), I probably had it floored almost 50% of the trip, including pretty much all the way across Kansas and then all the way from the I-25/I-80 junction to Laramie, WY.

2 liter diesels are awesome. :D

I use 100% throttle a large part of the time in my 190d 2.2......270k+ on the engine and still going strong.

On the freeway if I put my foot about 90% it will stay around 75-77mph :D Its been up to 97mph before....the absolute most I could get out of it. (took a LONG time)

Looking closer at the link from Shortsguy1, it looks like there was a 3rd 220D that did not finish and none of them were backed by Mercedes.

I guess if I ever decide to sell my 220D I can claim:

"You know, they used to race these against 911's at the Nürburgring..."