Rally Mercedes?
Posted by tmadison
Tim Madison Mod Moderator Location: Ventura CA Join Date: 03/12/2008 Age: Settling Down Posts: 6 |
Derek Bottles Godlike Moderator Location: Lopez Island/ Seattle WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 853 Rally Car: Past: 323, RX2, GTI. Next up M3 ? |
Tim Madison Mod Moderator Location: Ventura CA Join Date: 03/12/2008 Age: Settling Down Posts: 6 |
oh right, my bad. the w123 chassis cars are the ones with four round headlights. 240d, 300d/td, etc. As an amusing aside, I found that picture on a site called montanamusclecars.com. Those mercedes had all of 88hp from the factory.
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Andrew Steere Junior Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
I've seen some old 450SLCs in one of my McKlein books, Mercs are heavy, and diesels are slower than death. I learned to drive in a 240D. Wonderful car to rack up miles on the highway in comfort and economy, but I could never see it as a rally car. I occasionally get the silly idea of finding one of these for a veggie oil car, but several thousand others have already thought of that and driven the price up for anything without Flintstone rockers and floors.
OK, I dug out my Rally Cars (Klein) book, Mercedes 280E/280CE ran some in 77-79, their one win listed was the 1977 London to Sydney event. The cars were really specialty items to run the long marathon events, where brick shithouse construction was more important than maximum attack ability. That and having a large team of German mechanics, engineers and probably several Unimogs full of spares. 
Same goes for some early 60s Mercs, and the 450SLC in 78-80. Andrew Steere Lyndeborough, NH KB1PJY |
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I see Andrew Cowan's name on there. Robin |
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