Sec coupe development video

[grober]

Quite nice video at 480p on the development of the w126 SEC coupes. Alas in German of course. Can't remember if I have posted this before or not.
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[camerafodder]

Reported...

 

[Dieselman]

Loved the images of the suspension and tyres under duress.

 

[jaymanek]

DM - If you like that check this out...
Mercedes-Benz W113 Pagoda roadster 230SL - YouTube

 

[219]

DM - If you like that check this out...
Mercedes-Benz W113 Pagoda roadster 230SL - YouTube

That is the shortened version - I used to have a print of the full film on 16mm .

The sequence where Karl Kling was driving it on the test track was much longer and showed more 4 wheel drifts plus swerving wildly from lane to lane ; he then parked it on an uneven surface with diagonally opposite wheels on 'humps' and the other two down in holes , then demonstrated the doors opening and closing perfectly with no roof in place .

I also loved the bit where the gent parked it in the street to have a crowd form around it - I remember parking my Ponton outside the George Hotel in Edinburgh some years ago and returning a few minutes later to find a busload of German tourists crowding round it - one even asked me to name my price !

 

[Dieselman]

I remember parking my Ponton outside the George Hotel in Edinburgh some years ago and returning a few minutes later to find a busload of German tourists crowding round it - one even asked me to name my price !

Perhaps they weren't referring to the car...

 

[Haris]

Awesome, I understood all of that! didn't think I remembered that much.

 

[Aswall]

DM - If you like that check this out...
Mercedes-Benz W113 Pagoda roadster 230SL - YouTube

Lovely car, so stylish

 

[WDB124066]

Perhaps they weren't referring to the car...

I'm sure they were.......

Mercedes-Benz 220S 1958 | Trade Me