What model mercedes first caught your eye before you actually had one,and how old where you?For my part it was a red SL with palamino interior and I was seven or eight back in the seventies.
Bear

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I must say it was the W124. They were just all over the place and I just loved it. I don't remember how old I was.. probably around 5-7. I remember my dad telling me that 300E had a 3000cc engine, 6 cylinders, 230E had 4, 2.3l, etc.

The cars that caught my attention was the W116/R107 though. It's their unique blinkers...
I saw them in the TV series "Dallas" *I think*
I was like "Wow... wish I had MB's like those"

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Matchbox had one, then I read some car mag doing a right up about one. I remember them saying it had six shifters, and you could lock everything together, put it against a wall, let the clutch out with the engine idling and it would slowly spin all four wheels.

I also remember the City of Buffalo buying one as a snow plow. They needed something smaller than the full size dump trucks to get around the narrow streets and abandonded (stuck) cars. Maybe someday I'll get one and put a 5.0 in it and find something to do with it

. Funny, now my aunt and uncle are wealthy plumbing company owners themselves, and can afford any luxury make, but my uncle would never buy a Mercedes, even if my aunt wanted one, which she does not. She drives a Town Car.




hehhehe.. rich but no taste
sorry.. I had to put that in :p

I also remember the taxi company I drove for had an old MB diesel, sometime in the mid '70's. I didn't know much about it, it got hit shortly after I got there. I do remember it idling outside and the owner challenged my friend to go out there and try and shut it off. He came back a half an hour later and the car was still running

Howdy All & Jim,
I was aware of MB's but no big love afair until I bought my 1975 Dodge Van. Bought a mag. that had an article on the Mog.(love at first sight) They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what is more beautiful than a Mog?¿
Jim, you must be reading the same articles I am Here is your chance to own a Mog. In the ML,G & Mog forum I have posted some websites about Moab and some of the Mogs are for sale. And you won't have to do an engine swap If you are interested give me a shout.

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the year would have been 1987. I was 12 years old. The car, a 1988 300ce.

Something about the coupe just caught my eye. And i knew I would have to have one of these one day.

Well I have one now.

Alon

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In 1955 I was about 12 when my dad stopped at a showroom while we were all out shopping. It held a silver 300 Gullwing, and I thought it was the most beautiful creation on earth. My mom kept saying "where will we put the kids" until my dad almost gave her a suggestion on the topic!

They 'discussed' this issue for 2 years and settled on a 57 Bel Air, beige roof over copper body. The next year it became "The kids are growing too tall for the car" until a hideous pink and white 58 Olds filled the drive. In 1987 Dad finally got his MB, the 300E I have been driving since he passed away. But it all started with that 55 Gullwing!

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When I was a baby my dad gave me a w126 coupe model car. my parents told me it was the only toy I would play with untill he gave me a gullwing model. This lasted untill I took them apart (they don't go back together) Still have what is left of them. Then when we drove to Denver to pickup the 500 I refused to ride back in the Lincoln.
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Sometime in 1983 when I saw a picture of a 190E 2.3-16. I knew I would have one someday. I was 15 or 16...up until that time I thought Mercedes Benz was an 'old' persons car. I was too young (and too stupid) to appreciate the fine engineering and timeless styling of the marque.

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Beauty & the Beast and the wagon that could!

My Dad first owned a 1959 190E...the year I was born...he kept the car for 14 years before he sold it for $1100. It was black with a red leather interior. Looked just as good when he sold it as when it was new!

As a child, I used to get the manual out of the glove box and peruse through the parts sections. Back then, the owner's manual had pages of exploded views of all of the mechanical and body components as well as electrical diagrams...my first education in auto maintenance.

Later, he bought a 1971 280SE Coupe...gunmetal grey with black interior. The manual still had the cool exploded diagrams. To this day, he STILL has the car, albeit, repainted during his ownership.

While he dropped the car off for service, I would go to the dealer showroom and drool over the new SLs. I still hope to acquire one of the 107 models someday.

My current collection is purely coincidental, but I always admired the build quality of MBs...so maybe, it really wasn't an accident after all.

The manuals aren't as fun to peruse through anymore though...

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Mine was a 1988 260E, I fell in love with. To me at the time it was unatainable, which makes them even more desirable. It was a taupe color on grey interior. To this day the 124 is just an unbelievable body style. Name one other car that can make a boring tan color look so nice and elegant.

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My first drive in a MB was a 1959 220S with a four speed on the column. The woman I was dating at the time (1983/84 and am now married to) had a roommate that owned it. When I met the future wife the car was not running. I took it on myself to get it going for her room mate. Anyway after cleaning up the fuel system and installing a new battery I got it going. The car was in very good condition. I drove it from Atlanta to Savannah and back (over 400 miles) and I guess that put a lasting impression on me in regards to Mercedes Benz. Cruised at 75-80 in a 26 year old car (at the time) and got in the high 20's for gas milage. I coulda bought that car for $3500 but it was a lot of $$ then. I will always like that "pontoon" body.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bear
[B]What model mercedes first caught your eye before you actually had one,and how old where you?

My uncle was a Formula I driver who Mercedes tapped to do some advertising for them. Every time he visited my family on the East Coast, they would give him a new Mercedes to drive.
He defied the Laws of Physics in a 6.3 and terrorized my eleven year-old ass on those backwoods Connecticut roads.
We would come home with clouds of brake smoke swirling out from the wheels, my mother would give him "the look"
" Were you racing out there????" and he would turn innocently to me whereupon I would reply on cue, " no way, I wouldn't let him."
Yeah right. My knees would be too weak to walk so I'd just lean against the car. He also got in a temper on the West Side Drive
in New York City and inspired a 450SEL to slice traffic in a way I've never seen since. From him, I learned of the incredible
depth of engineering pedigree in those early Mercedes.
Colin

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In the late sixties they were building a pumped electric plant nearby. It had along underground tunnel that lead to the main reservor. No vechicles except diesel powered could be used in the tunnel. There they sat a pair of early fin backed 190D's the bodies were beat to h--- but still running. Iwas impressed and still am. The tunnel now filled with water and the MB's gone on.

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