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Title: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: cawimmer430 on March 13, 2018, 12:18:17 PM
In 1:43 scale.  :praise:  :rockon:

Love the attention to detail on this beauty. Check out the speedometer details and the column shift automatic!  :praise:


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Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: shp4man on March 13, 2018, 02:17:54 PM
You need a real classic, Wimmer.  ;)
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: Soup DeVille on March 13, 2018, 02:37:29 PM
I assume the seats are every bit as hard and unyielding as the original.
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: MexicoCityM3 on March 13, 2018, 02:39:56 PM
Nice.
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: Gotta-Qik-C7 on March 13, 2018, 04:15:34 PM
Quote from: Soup DeVille on March 13, 2018, 02:37:29 PM
I assume the seats are every bit as hard and unyielding as the original.
:lol:
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: Raza on March 13, 2018, 05:55:29 PM
Looks awesome.
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: cawimmer430 on March 13, 2018, 07:23:43 PM
Quote from: shp4man on March 13, 2018, 02:17:54 PM
You need a real classic, Wimmer.  ;)

I need one of these.  :wub:

(https://i.wheelsage.org/image/format/picture/picture-gallery-full/m/mercedes-benz/e-klasse_123/mercedes-benz_200_t_1.jpeg)

Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: cawimmer430 on March 13, 2018, 07:24:25 PM
Quote from: Soup DeVille on March 13, 2018, 02:37:29 PM
I assume the seats are every bit as hard and unyielding as the original.

I think with cloth and velour seats they were comfortable. Leather and MB-Tex would probably be very hard and slippery.  :ohyeah:
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: Soup DeVille on March 13, 2018, 09:17:48 PM
Quote from: cawimmer430 on March 13, 2018, 07:24:25 PM
I think with cloth and velour seats they were comfortable. Leather and MB-Tex would probably be very hard and slippery.  :ohyeah:

MB-tex; was that the perforated biege stuff that was almost, but not quite entirely unlike leather?

Yeah, it was pretty bad.
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: veeman on March 13, 2018, 10:28:09 PM
That's a great blue. The old Mercedes way of matching wheel color with the body paint was also super styling.  I wish they still did that today (although everyone now at least in the U.S. gets them in some shade of white, silver, grey, black.
Title: Re: Bought a 1968 Mercedes-Benz 220D Automatic
Post by: cawimmer430 on March 16, 2018, 06:08:18 AM
Quote from: veeman on March 13, 2018, 10:28:09 PM
That's a great blue. The old Mercedes way of matching wheel color with the body paint was also super styling.

I love that feature. But at the same time it wouldn't have looked good on the successor models W126 S-Class and W124 E-Class.