now that's gross

[sixto]

<http://www.blackhawkcollection.com/index.cfm?key=673&action=details&tab=inventory>

About as gross as the prewar grossers got

The 770K ends the W126 vs W140 vs W220 debate.

Sixto
95 S420
87 300SDL

[chazola]

I would write something but my tongue's getting in the way of my keyboard...

[moparmike]

You and me both Chazola. I would pay $30 just to have a 4' x 3' poster made of that.


Daaayymmn!

[neanderthal]

sport sedan?

more like a junior abrams tank.

[Snibble]

Ohhhhhhhh........my God 7.7liter engine???? The look.... the color.... the style I think I've fallen in love

[rickg]

Oooohhh!

I need a cold shower now.

[Hatterasguy]

Wow!

[Honus]

I wonder how that 770K would do against this Duesenberg .

[DslBnz]

In the 770 Merc, you couldn't travel above approx 50 mph because the tires couldn't handle the stress.

Well, I guess that wasn't bad for the times. I mean, I think the dry weight of 10K + lbs might've had something to do with that restriction, but then...

Why does this, the first of the "Grand Mercedes", always seem to get overshadowed by later models? Any vintage, VINTAGE MB nuts out there?

[Honus]

Originally posted by narwhal
oh, i was talking about the little ford.

With 650 BHP and a 2.1 second zero-to-60 time, that Ford is sweet, for sure, but we ain't rally racing here. No, sir, I'm looking for someone to run against my Doozy. So you get your 770K, I'll get my Doozy, and we'll go title for title. (Wouldn't that be a hoot.)

In all seriousness, though, I can't think of a car from the 1930's that I would take over a Duesenberg. Here's a blurb I found about Doozy performance Link :

...This new engine gave the Duesenberg its fame: In 1920, a Duesenberg set a Land Speed Record at Daytona, with Tommy Milton urging it to a speed of 156 mph. In 1921 Jimmy Murphy astounded the Euro pean continent by leaving its best cars and drivers in a cloud of dust at the Grand Prix of France. As late as 1960 the Duesenberg was still the only American car to win a European Grand Prix race: The passenger version of this racing Duesenberg was the Model A, for its time the car of the future. No other production machine in the 1920's had a straight-eight engine. It also scooped the market with the first set of four-wheel hydraulic brakes and followed that by introducing the balloon tire.

In 1926 Erret Lobban Cord bought out the company to add to his Auburn-Cord merger, but he was not as interested in the car as he was in the engineering ability of Fred and August Duesenberg. He needed them for his other cars, but he wisely continued the Duesenberg line as well. That year the Model J Duesenberg appeared and some years later a supercharged model called the SJ. These were the most famous Duesenbergs. Their racing history is unparalleled and they still hold three world records. Since 1935 no other car has been able to break the Duesenberg Class B marks for the one hour, twelve hour, and twenty-four hour runs. That is a long time for a record to stand especially when one considers the engineering progress in recent years.

But the stock models were not much slower. It was possible to purchase an SJ, drive it from the showroom to the open road and reach 60 mph from a standing start in about 9 seconds! One hundred mph showed up at 17 seconds. The top speed was around 130 mph. Try that on any stock car today. As a matter of fact, try it on many competition models...