Originally Posted by rasper

I remember well when this happened. I lived in Fort Lauderdale back in the 1960's and 1970's. Lauderdale is just another big city now, but back then it was something else. It was still kind of small and it was where the people on the East Coast who didn't have to work went to spend the winters. I remember in 1972 when that 116 450SE came out. All of a sudden the rich people sat up and took notice. Before that, Benzes were, let's be generous and say they were staid looking. Certainly not sexy. But that 450SE was a car you could drool over. Overnight it seemed like half the cars on the streets down there were 450SE's.

Curiously, it also seemed like overnight they all disappeared at once. Much like the Dodge Stealth/Mitsibishi 3000. I bought one for my wife. The streets were full of them, and then all of a sudden they were all gone.

Richard