'80s Mercedes Sales Brochures/Videos/Centenial Items Stash Found

[TylerH860]

Good friend, fellow forum member, and MB nut Daniel Wallach went up to the Northeast to purchase a 40k original mile 300D 2.5. The recently deceased owner was described as the Billy Graham of Mercedes. Apparently he was an ex-Nazi and German national that moved to the US to train salesmen in the whole Northeastern region. He retired in the early '90s near the end of the golden era.

I was allowed to potentially purchase and borrow some items, including a salesmen's edition 1986 sales packet (the year I was born), the centennial of Mercedes history with beautiful artwork, 2 Andy Worhol Mercedes calenders circa 1989, 2 Mercedes grill radios, a box full of sales related videos, and tons of other books and sales paraphernalia filling 7 boxes.

I've uploaded some photos and some poor quality video clips of some of the videos. I've been just drooling. My favorite videos have been the 1989 model overview, the 1983 190E 2.3 I6 world record 50,000 km time challenge, and the 1990 European delivery video. Another good one is the value of the W126 video explaining that a Mercedes costs more up front but saves more in the long run, because the rest are basically crap and fall apart, or rapidly depreciate.

Enjoy! I've been enamored with everything for the last 4 hours.





















This is my favorite photos of the book. 3 months ago I was sitting at the cafe facing the same few of the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco, staring at all the high end cars pulling in. 2 cars I currently own were depicted in this work. It got me a little misty...



Here's my snapshot of that day. Crazy, huh?



Video clips to come in next post: