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11-13-2003, 12:27 AM
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280se 3.5 manny tranny
As usual no representation or knowledge of vehicle or owner.
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Happy Benzing Darryl, Hill 2005 SL55 AMG Kleemanized 1984 500 SEC 1967 W113 California Coupe [SIGPIC] https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos 
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11-13-2003, 09:04 AM
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There was a similar V8 coupe with stick-shift listed by a Saint Louis dealer on Ebay a couple of years ago. It was a gorgeous car, dark grey, with a burgundy leather interior. That one also had AC and the Euro headlamps. As I recall, it sold for about $16,000. At first I thought this might have been the same car. There can't have been very many of these built with the V8 / manual tranny combo. What are the odds that 2 of them would be in Saint Louis?
Happy Motoring, Mark
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11-13-2003, 08:27 PM
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Has anyone driven one of these? How heavy is the clutch pedal effort?
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11-13-2003, 09:27 PM
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I wish! The only 3.5-stickshift Benzes I've seen have been on Ebay - two 280SE coupes in Saint Louis, Missouri and a 350SL in Orange County, California - too far away for me to test drive. Sigh!
Happy Motoring, Mark
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11-14-2003, 10:47 AM
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Why did he do that?
I was pumped until I saw the speakers.
Better he hid the speakers instead of the radio.
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Chuck Taylor Falls Church VA '66 200, '66 230SL, '96 SL500. Sold: '81 380SL, '86 300E, '72 250C, '95 C220, 3 '84 280SL's '90 420SEL, '72 280SE, '73 280C, '78 280SE, '70 280SL, '77 450SL, '85 380SL, '87 560SL, '85 380SL, '72 350SL, '96 S500 Coupe
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11-14-2003, 11:21 AM
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wow
that is a beauty,
I hear about the speaker placement..eeww. Someday I hope my 250 is in that condition.
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German autos!!! '67 250se coupe '89 190e 2.6 '05 BMW x5 '59 0319 diesel Omnibus. Italian bikes!!! '64 Lambretta Special 185 hot rod scooter '66 Lambretta SX200 '59 Lambretta 250 race bike '70 Lambretta GP200 '77 860gt ducati '66 ducati monza
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11-15-2003, 10:03 PM
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I've had two of them - one came from.......St. Louis, and the other from California. I'm not sure what the St. Louis connection is. They only made about 130 of them but I would say there's at least 20 in the U.S. There must have been a gray market importer in the 80s seeking them out.
They're nice cars, not fast by today's standards but livelier than the automatics. I have no recollection of the clutch being heavy, think it was fine. Of course they are all Euro cars and they are geared very short. My first one, I think a 3.92, was geared like a lawnmower. You had to shift out of first before you got out of the intersection. I put a 3.27 from 280/4.5 in it and that solved the problem. After the switch it would get 25 mpg on the highway. The second one was a 3.69 I believe which was OK but it too would have been better with a 3.27. Both were very reliable - several old timers told me they thought the 3.5 was a better engine than the 4.5. The Euros have no AC, often crank windows, but they are very desirable cars. I think it was the last V8 stick shift that Mercedes made - I'm not aware of anything since. I once saw in CA a 1971 300SEL 3.5 stick shift, 4 speed, same drive train. I would have bought it but it was junk.
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11-20-2003, 11:59 PM
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Auction closed at $11,500 and the reserve was not met!
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