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 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing (Sold) | 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing (Sold) 1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing (Sold) Beautifully finished in Astral Silver with red leather interior. This is a full numbers matching vehicle with books and tools. Nicely restored and restored correctly. An excellent example of an automotive icon. Family Classic Cars 33033 Camino Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Phone: 1 (949) 496-3000 Fax: 1 (949) 488-0523 Email us at: info@familyclassiccars.com Website: www.familyclassiccars.com by Douglas |
 1960 300SL Roadster (SOLD) | 1960 300SL Roadster (SOLD) 1960 300SL Roadster (SOLD) This is a beautiful, numbers matching 300 SL Roadster that is equipped with both hard and soft top. The car comes with books and tools. A highly desirable and collectible car. Family Classic Cars 33033 Camino Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Phone: 1 (949) 496-3000 Fax: 1 (949) 488-0523 Email us at: info@familyclassiccars.com Website: www.familyclassiccars.com by Douglas |
 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Cabriolet (Sold) | 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Cabriolet (Sold) 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Cabriolet (Sold) This beautiful 1971 Mercedes 280SE 3.5 Cabriolet was recently restored by a very well known and respected restorer to 100 point concours condition. This is truly the best 3.5 Cabriolet we have ever seen. The entire car is perfect. The undercarriage is a work of art. Everything functions as it should and the car drives like brand new. It’s looks and drives as though it just came off the assembly line. The car is finished in silver with black leather interior and a black cloth convertible top and includes all factory options. This car comes out of a prestigious collection of cars. These 3.5 cabriolets were among the finest driving cars of the late sixties and early seventies and were also among the most expensive, with a price of nearly $13,000. The cars are prized by collectors for their drivability, and are often found in most of the finer collections. Family Classic Cars 33033 Camino Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Phone: 1 (949) 496-3000 Fax: 1 (949) 488-0523 Email us at: info@familyclassiccars.com Website: www.familyclassiccars.com by Douglas |
Mercedes-Benz Automobiles By Year
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Mercedes-Benz Automobiles By Model
- Mercedes-Benz 190 SL
- Mercedes-Benz 280 SE
- Mercedes-Benz 280 SL Roadster
- Mercedes-Benz 300 Series
- Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe
- Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL
Gottlieb Daimler was a talented but conservative engineer, his financial partners more conservative still. The backers felt their new company, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, should concentrate on stationary engines. However, Daimler and his colleague Wilhelm Maybach continued experimenting with automobiles and by 1895 were able to put several models into production. They had five different engines, each available with several types of bodies, but none of them could reasonably be called “sporting.”
Enter Emile Jellinek, an Austrian-born entrepreneur and Daimler agent, who delighted in racing cars and lent much to the company’s development. Having raced a Daimler in the 1900 Nice Automobile Week, Jellinek came away disappointed and wanted a faster car. He badgered the factory to build him what could be called an early muscle car, a light chassis powered by a 35-horsepower engine. In order to provide incentive to the company, he undertook to order 36 such cars if he were given the exclusive sales franchise for Austro-Hungary, France, Belgium and America – and further that the cars be named for his eleven-year-old daughter Mercédes. It was a deal that Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft decided not to refuse.
Mercedes cars were of front-engine, chain drive design, a concept adopted at the insistence of Jellinek, and powerful, with engines of six to nine liters giving 40 to 60 Pferdestärke (German horsepower, literally “horse strength,” abbreviated PS), although smaller 1,760 cc, 8PS cars were available. In 1905, the 15/20PS became the first Mercedes to use shaft drive, an architecture that gained wider use across the range, although the large sporting cars continued to use chains. These sports models were made in sizes to 100PS. The Daimler factory scored big in 1908 when Christian Lautenschlager won the French Grand Prix in a new 140 horsepower Mercedes.
Mercedes cars were equally suitable for the boulevard. By 1908, several European heads of state had adopted them for official travel. These included Kaiser Wilhelm II and King Leopold of Belgium. England’s Edward VII used British Daimlers at home, but kept a Mercedes for his Continental journeys.
America had been an important market from the time that Jellinek obtained his distributorship. By 1904, a quarter of Mercedes production went there, a territory so successful that a plant was established that year at Long Island City, New York. Prominent customers included the Astors and Vanderbilts, Henry Clay Frick and Isaac Guggenheim. However, U.S. production ceased there after a factory fire in 1907.
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