1000sel

[d w124]

Ver rare and must be original Stratton car

VERY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL MERCEDES 1000 SEL AMG on eBay (end time 17-Jun-10 22:19:40 BST)

 

[nick mercedes]

One for Talbir?

 

[d w124]

One for Talbir?

Was thinking about it,as he bought one without interior not long ago

 

[khimani_mohiki]

rear window is delaminating, probably rusty underneath.

 

[nick.ged]

did they leave he engine standard, then call it a 1000? seems odd, anyone know the 'story' behind these cars?

 

[jaymanek]

probably only good for the bits now.

 

[G55AMG]

Cool!

I've seen the 1000sel website, never actually knew these were produced.

Wonder if the seller owns the G-wagen parked across the road?

 

[d w124]

Wonder if the seller owns the G-wagen parked across the road?

And the CE behind it

 

[Gridlock]

did they leave he engine standard, then call it a 1000? seems odd, anyone know the 'story' behind these cars?

Get a 500SEL and a rich client (banker, oil, weapons trade, that sort of thing), take it to a tuner/style house in the 1980s and they'll make you a car "twice as good as a 500SEL".

 

[219]

That is the exact interior I have been looking for .

However , the car looks a total wreck and everything so tatty , even in the photographs and probably worse in reality ( window blind with a huge tear in it , for example ) that it is just not worth going all that distance to buy what would undoubtedly be so much rubbish .

Besides , I wouldn't want the whole car and the vendor almost certainly wants it ' off his turf ' .

 

[d w124]

did they leave he engine standard, then call it a 1000? seems odd, anyone know the 'story' behind these cars?

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]So what exactly is a 1000SEL? Well, a 1000SEL-badged Mercedes could be anything. 1000SEL was just a badge on the trunk of a Mercedes and the contents were defined by the wishes of the customer. Some companies sold the 1000SEL separately so you could just order badge and slap it to the back of your 380SE Mercedes to make it look "the business". A real 1000SEL however was offered as a complete car with many high end modifications which will be mentioned in this article. [/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]So where does the name 1000SEL come from? Well, it is rumoured somewhere in the early 1980s a Middle-East customer from Styling Garage ordered himself a heavily modified Mercedes 500SEL. When he received the keys he told the owner of the company, Chris Hahn, that his car was twice as good as a regular 500SEL and he'd like to have a different badge on the car. Well there you have it: 500SEL x 2 = 1000SEL. It should be mentioned that most of the 1000SEL conversions were sold to customers in the Middle-East. [/FONT]



[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Exterior[/FONT]
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The exterior of the 1000SEL could include many extras and options. More chrome, gold instead of chrome, paint instead of gold, new rims, bumpers, spoilers, skirts and a boomerang- antenna on the bootlid for the TV. All were options. In fact the badge "1000SEL" meant that anything was possible as long as you paid the bill.
One of the options offered by companies like ITS, Kugok and SGS was the so-called 600-nose. This new bonnet incorporated the style of the 600 Mercedes (W100) of the 1960's. Another option were to have the chrome parts sprayed in the car's colour or could be gold-plated (e.i. Kugok, SGS) or sprayed in a completely different colour (SGS).

A 1000SEC-badged Trasco limousine based on a Mercedes-Benz 500SEC.
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Interior
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A real 1000SEL Mercedes has a new interior. This interior should at least have a new upholstery, most likely in leather and preferably in white, creme or red. A centre console that runs through the whole car is also very important. This console was in most cases finished in the finest wood veneers and fitted with all kinds of compartments to store your personal belongings. A champagne cooler and a TV for the passengers must be included. High-end over-the-top HiFi-Stereo by Clarion or Pioneer were no exception. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Conclusion[/FONT][/FONT]

• [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The 1000SEL was never offered by Mercedes-Benz. [/FONT]
• [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The 1000SEL was a modified (W126) S-class, sold by tuning/coachbuilding companies. [/FONT]
• [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A real 1000SEL (some cars just have the badge) is made to customers specifications.[/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]So there you have it: a 1000SEL Mercedes-Benz was nothing more, but surely nothing less than a superlative S-class from the '80s built by small tuning and coachbuilding companies. A car Mercedes-Benz couldn't offer anymore after they shut down the production of the "600" in 1981...[/FONT]

 

[mercmush]

That 1000SEL will be an expensive dog of a car with a multitude of problems lurking behing its silly & inaccurate badging. It only has one purpose and that is spares.

 

[Sonny Burnett]

i reember seeing a 1000SEL limo in miami vice season 3 thinking wtf...

 

[neilrr]

I saw one of these close up in L.A. back in the '80's when it was newly imported by one of the Bel Air Iranian refugees. It was painted an almost candy apple red with a white interior & gold badges. It stood out as vulgar in LA in the heady '80's & believe me that took some doing

 

[d w124]

Re-listed VERY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL MERCEDES 1000 SEL AMG on eBay (end time 22-Jul-10 16:11:02 BST)