jam38
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Never seen one of these before: Mercedes Universal Estate car | eBay
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H1ODJ
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Love that
grober
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Ah---- the days when they made cars with real tyres with sidewalls! At home on the autobahn or a dirt track in Africa! Sadly most cars of that vintage are mainly rust held together with some steel paint and chrome from the waist down. Unless you are contemplating a possible complete car strip down to bare body shell level forget it. The £7,000 asking price might contradict that but the Irish are known to have a wicked sense of humour? I think these were a coachbuilder conversion so rear section body parts would have to be made now EXPERT INSPECTION MANDITORY BEFORE PURCHASE
Estate car
An estate car version of the 230S four-cylinder-engined car was introduced in 1965 and achieved modest success in certain markets including Germany, Belgium and the UK. The car was actually the result of a conversion carried out by the Mechelen based company Société Anonyme pour l'Importation de Moteurs et d'Automobiles (IMA) which was already assembling saloon version of the cars from CKD kits and which was also the Belgian Mercedes-Benz importer.[6] With the reduction in tariffs that followed the development of the EEC, small scale assembly of this kind within the EEC but outside Germany no longer made sense, and assembly of the Mercedes-Benz cars at Malines stopped in 1973, by which time the plant had assembled 78,568 four-cylinder Mercedes-Benz cars based on the W111 and its successor model.
Estate car
An estate car version of the 230S four-cylinder-engined car was introduced in 1965 and achieved modest success in certain markets including Germany, Belgium and the UK. The car was actually the result of a conversion carried out by the Mechelen based company Société Anonyme pour l'Importation de Moteurs et d'Automobiles (IMA) which was already assembling saloon version of the cars from CKD kits and which was also the Belgian Mercedes-Benz importer.[6] With the reduction in tariffs that followed the development of the EEC, small scale assembly of this kind within the EEC but outside Germany no longer made sense, and assembly of the Mercedes-Benz cars at Malines stopped in 1973, by which time the plant had assembled 78,568 four-cylinder Mercedes-Benz cars based on the W111 and its successor model.
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