Reciently I purchased a lovely '88 300sel .
What a great car to drive it is , kinda reminds me of my first '56 Belair..... ( perhaps I'm remembering thru rose tinted specs )

Well as you know ,, not all the world drives on the left , and the manufacturers also know this .
SO ... when a MB is built for , say , Britian , Singapore , Australia or New Zealand ( yep , thats me ) various things just have to change .
Like the complete dash , steering , wiring loom etc etc .

It rained today .........

Next time you are in the rain , in your LHD w126 , look across at where the w/screen wipers are putting all the water .
Yep right in front of the passenger .

Now here I am in my RHD benz ,, safest car in the world ,, with my visibility impared , because the engineers deemed it unimportant to change the sweep of the wipers on RHD w126 cars .

Imagine it , if you can , having a constant stream of water bubbles flowing up the screen in front of your vision , , how daft is that !!

Still at least "she who must be heard" can see .. ..

Despite that glaring omission in the design ,, I still love the w126 .

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'72 240D
'76 300D
'88 300sel
'40 Chev pickup , the shop hack.
'73 Monte Carlo Landau, for "Super Chevy Sunday"