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Jim B. · #12 01-25-2012, 11:23 PM

Back in the 1980's it was considered very prestigious in Japan to own a higth line V8 w124 or w126 Mercedes benz sedan in Left hand drive.

Japan is a right hand drive country.

So that made these cars difficult to park, and this Mercedes Benz accessory was created and marketed for sale ONLY at Mercedes Benz dealers in Japan; the one I have obtained. was off a w124 1994 E420 V8.

So today, they are extremely rare and pretty valuable.

Here is mine going onto the car back in 2009.

It looks different today, because last year the front fender and the pole were damaged in a scuffle with a utility truck merging onto a LA freeway, last year, and the little top tristar which is plastic was destroyed. So the easy fix was to have a friend that was a welder braize in a regular tri star.

They actually really DO work in parking here in the USA too.

I have seen other versions of these in California that actually have the little plastic tristar LIGHT UP at night, but in the daytime they do not look good because of the plastic insulation coming down fron the tristar, and the plastic tristar itself eventually gets discolored (to a yellowish hue).

I will say that almost everywhere I go with the car, curious passers-by do ask about the pole and what it is for.