I saw a little YouTube short the other day. I never knew about these, of course I immediately went to see if any were for sale and was gobsmacked at the prices!
I shouldn't have been surprised, a Porsche built Mercedes sedan with a rowdy V8.
I saw a little YouTube short the other day. I never knew about these, of course I immediately went to see if any were for sale and was gobsmacked at the prices!
I shouldn't have been surprised, a Porsche built Mercedes sedan with a rowdy V8.
I actually test drove one back in the day when they were at the bottom of their depreciation curve. A local dealer had an e500 on trade that they were selling for less than $20K. I feared reliability and driving an older car, so I passed on it...like an idiot. It had like 35,000 miles.
WHAT A CAR! Our buddy has two of them. Which has inspired my Son to work on his narrow body version. My college age son's is a 93 E300 with 120k that is shockingly straight and original. that we scored from a local used car lot. The family of the original owner had traded it in at a local new car store and the lot bought it at auction. They never even cleaned it up. Which is great as we then did so properly. My buddy hooked my son up with a set of take off factory 500 wheels and he just drove hours to score a single Euro headlight that h
e needed to complete that along with euro tails. Son wants to lower the car just a little.... Sons and I work on quite the range of different older stuff and this car is simply impressively well built.
In reply to pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) :
I did just a quick search earlier, only found 2 for sale. Apparently only 1500 were brought to the US. And the prices.......one asking price was 6 figures.
Very cool, had no idea these existed.
For a funny comparison, it would take 18 YEARS before the Mustang GT made more HP than this sedan
They are stupid money. Very cool cars. I got to see a 'few' of them at Blue Ridge Mercedes(and lots of other cool stuff)
They feel special for their time for sure. They're worth a lot of money and I don't think they'll bottom out soon.
This is one of those cars, along with stuff like a Grand National or an Impala SS, that you could say "this is the coolest car of all time" and it is really hard to argue against the claim.
In reply to SPG123 :
My dads favorite car was his 93 300E. I think his was either grey market or late in the MY, because it had a 3.2 instead of the 3.0. I could be wrong on the timing of it, maybe more 93s were 3.2. I know the coupes were.
He sold it when my older brother got too talk to sit in the front seat. He should have told Mom to sit in the back, which happened 2 years later anyway.
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