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Curbside Classic: Mercedes 300SEL (W109) – Trying To Make Sense Of The Magic Number “300″

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Guest contributor: Shaheen Karimian and Lindsey Stengle on the 1968-1976 Mercedes-Benz W114 | . . .

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Originally Posted by Jub

Beginning to really dig this blog:

Curbside Classic: Mercedes 300SEL (W109) – Trying To Make Sense Of The Magic Number “300″

Jub

Not being critical- but one glaring error on that blog was that not all W109 series cars had burlwood. They also came with Macassar ebony (often mis- identified as "Zebrano" or "Zebrawood") and I've even seen some Euro models with just the "plain" wood commonly found in W108s.

I have seen and serviced in the distant past a very few very early W109 300SEL cars with the M189 engine, too. I think it was an "early- early" thing- 1966/67 only. The other oddity you see once in a very great while on the earliest 108/9 cars is Fintail chrome side dash vents.

Another fun trivial fact is that there were two versions of the lower dash pad for non A/C cars. One had the bulge where the A/C vents would go covered by a wood blanking plate, and the other was like a Fin CCV lower dash- just a straight padded piece with no bulge for A/C vents. I had a customer years ago with a Euro 6.3 with the straight lower dash pad and a Behr A/C unit below it!