Does anyone know if the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart is open on Sundays? Or, does anyone know the URL to a website which may have information in English about the museum.

A spur of the moment trip to Stuttgart has come up and I have to leave Saturday for Stuttgart. Sunday will be available, so I have to come up with information fast.

Thanks for any help you can offer,

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Larry Bible
'84 Euro 240D, 523K miles
'88 300E 5 Speed
'81 300D Daughter's Car
Over 800,000 miles in
Mercedes automobiles

Folks,

Never mind, I just managed to find the info I was looking for with a simple search. Some time ago I couldn't find anything in English, but there's alot out there now.

Now if I just had a few days in old clothes, with my tools in a few Deutsche salvage yards while I'm there, I'd be set.

Thanks,
Larry

Hey, Larry. Maybe you can pick up some parts for my '84 500SEL EURO?!

Have a safe journey, my friend!

Have a PILSNER for me!

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FrankieZ
84 500SEL EURO 87K
85 300D 267K (and still goin' strong)

If you insist, I guess I'll have to have a Pilsner for you. Is there anyone else who will insist on me doing the same for them?

Larry

I would have sure liked your doing a parts run for me, too, but I no longer have the need as I traded my wonderful but problematic 300 TE 4-matic for a new ml 320. But definitely have a Pilsner for me and enjoy your trip!

OTOH, should you see any parts or a 928….

Bon voyage!

…tracy


[This message has been edited by tracy_leb (edited 06-07-2000).]

Larry:

Have an excellent trip. I was there in 1990 just as the Berlin wall was coming down (I still have pieces of the wall). I didn't get a chance to go to the MBZ Museum, but I did do the Mercedes Benz factory tour (in Sindelfingen). I also took a drive to the AMG factory in Affalterbach. They had to tape my jaw shut and hang a bucket around my neck to catch the drool That facility, as well as the vehicles I saw were/are AWESOME! Since I basically dropped in "unannounced", I was gladly given a personal tour by an english-speaking representative. I owned a 1984 190E AMG at the time and showed them a picture of it -- this may have helped. I got to tour their R&D shop and their race shop.

Larry -- if you can swing it, I'd HIGHLY recommend doing at least one of these tours.

Happy trails!

Brian

Larry:


If i remember, they are open on Sunday's but close early. But anyways, I see you got what you were looking for. Try to stop in Boblingen, pronounced (Booblingen)at MB headquarters. They have lots of salvage MB's and you can run in and ask for parts--dirt cheap. Its not too far from Stuttgart about 20 min drive.

Have a tall, ice cold Kronebacher for me, and have a safe trip my friend.

***remembering doing 150mph in a W140 down Highway 5 (Frankfurt-Stuttgart)***


Agron
1989 300E (107k miles)

Agron80,

The thought of drinking German beer ice cold is just as repulsive to me as drinking American beer at room temperature.<g>

Thanks to everyone for the information, and I'll report back when I return.

Thanks,
Larry

Larry,
You can drink a room temperature pils for me.
Gute Reise!

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Dean
Santa Barbara, CA
ICQ #300030
1974 280C
1984 300SD

Larry, have a Spaten for me! Gotta be a great trip! Man, the land of real automobiles! Hope you have a great time!

Go to the dismantlers in good clothes if you have to, just keep your ReichPass (passport)handy, just in case. Try not to lift a stein for everyone at one sitting though, just do a few each time

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Mike Tangas
73 280 SEL 4.5

Enjoy Larry,

One of these months I have got to make it over there!

Spaten sounds good! Maybe you can find a W140 S350 Turbo Diesel for yourself while your looking

BTW, take ear plugs for the long flight, you'll feel so much more relaxed when you arrive! Have a safe trip!
Ross

Larry, if you find an internet cafe
post a note from Stuttgart.
p.s. Der freche Fischer isst
frischen Fische !
Try that 3-times FAST !
gute Reise.

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1979 300D
133K miles
1989 300SE
1995 C280

Well UNKL,

I didn't find an internet cafe, but I finally got a PAL connection back to our server in Richardson. I never managed to find a place in Germany, but I just got to Copenhagen and the hotel is more up to date.

I just had to report back to everyone who was kind enough to comment, wish me a good trip, and even to those of you who were so demanding as to force me to have a Pilsner for you.

I made it over to the museum and it was closed for the European holiday. Don't start feeling sorry for me though. I rented a stick shift C Class and drove it almost 300KM. I went into Stuttgart and then to Pforzheim, which is about 35KM away, and one of the places I was stationed 30 years ago. The barracks are abandoned, grown up and the windows broken by vandals.

Anyway, I had a reservation at the Monch' WaldHotel which is in a box canyon, in the Black Forest. The birds woke me up this morning.

I enjoyed every Klick I put on the C Class. I sure wish MBNA would sell me one of these things in the USA. For Germany, it's just big enough to feel like a Mercedes, and small enough to handle the extremely narrow German roads well.

Had a ball, I'll report much more later, probably more than anyone wants to hear.

I wish I had a digital camera, I could send pictures now, but I'll find a scanner and maybe post one when I get home, don't worry Bill, we can get out of the way soon. While I'm wishing for more, I guess I'll have to demand that the next time I get a free trip to Germany, that it not be on a German holiday.

I have to work the rest of the trip, so I probably won't be logging on until the weekend.

Aufweidersehn,
Larry

Well, I made it to the museum this trip. I was there last Tuesday, and it was worth the trip. The museum was fine, if you ever have a chance to go, take it. But the row of executives cars parked in front of the museum is something you don't want to miss either. There were big engined, E's, C's and S's with stick shifts. There was also an AMG.

I saw so many manual transmission MB's it made me sick. If MBNA were to ever stop turning their back on us stick shift drivers in the US, maybe I'll be a new car customer again.

Also, for those of you who have never driven in Germany before, you're really missing an experience. I drove about 54,000 miles in two years all over Germany about 30 years ago. But it was in a VW Bug. I drove about 1,500 KM this past week with about 1,000 of them in Germany. It was in a manual transmission Opel Astra. The car surprised me. It had reasonable power, and drove and handled remarkably well. Driving 180 to 190 K/hour is fun, the trucks don't change into your lane while you're moving along. Also on the country two lanes and even in the city, people move along well. When a light turns green they hit the gas and go. When the traffic slows down on the city AutoBahns, they slow down and move along well, instead of stopping and then running up to the bumper in front of them. It was much better than I remembered.

My hat is off to the German drivers. What could we do in this country to get everyone to drive like this?

I enjoyed couple of weeks working and vacationing in Europe. I'm glad to be back to MShop though.

Have a great day,

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Larry Bible
'84 Euro 240D, 523K miles
'88 300E 5 Speed
'81 300D Daughter's Car
Over 800,000 miles in
Mercedes automobiles