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_field=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

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1968 220D, w115, /8, OM615, Automatic transmission.
My 1987 300TD wagon was sold and my 2003 W210 E320 wagon was totaled (sheds tear).

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

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1968 220D, w115, /8, OM615, Automatic transmission.
My 1987 300TD wagon was sold and my 2003 W210 E320 wagon was totaled (sheds tear).

That's funny!!!!!

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!

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.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

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

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

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.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

2 liter diesels are awesome.

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 Its been up to 97mph before....the absolute most I could get out of it. (took a LONG time)

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'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

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..."