Stolen

[brucemillar]

Vintage Mercedes-Benz convertible car stolen from Faversham business

 

[grober]

Immaculate fully restored versions of these V8 versions can command up to 6 figures. I imagine its in a container somewhere winging its way to a new home and identity.

 

[optimusprime]

Not very good news for the owner .
My car is not worth a lot . But to sit down and count up what i have spent on it would make me cry. I could have purchased a newer car ,or bike .
Worth more for parts, but i would be pig sick if they stole my car .
For me its been a life saver .And kept me working to take my mind of other things .
I just have to push myself to do the jobs on it now .

 

[219]

Lovely car , but I do wish people would stop referring to modern classics as 'vintage' which shows they clearly don't know the meaning of the term .

 

[optimusprime]

Yes, plus the fact that they are not original cars , and most have been rebuilt

 

[AMGeed]

At least Keyless Go isn't being blamed

 

[bob6600]

At least Keyless Go isn't being blamed

Maybe it had been retrofitted and was the reason it got nicked

 

[E55BOF]

Lovely car , but I do wish people would stop referring to modern classics as 'vintage' which shows they clearly don't know the meaning of the term .

It is on Facebook, though, so does one really expect accuracy?

 

[MancMike]

That's a modern classic?! A W202 might be. That what was stolen looks highly vintage to me. What's the problem?

 

[Wheelsnuts]

I understood the accepted definitions to be "veteran" before WW1, "vintage" between 1918 and 1930, "post vintage" or sometimes "PVT" (post-vintage thoroughbred) up to WW2 and "classic" for the 40s and 50s, though the term has since been loosely extended to cover later vehicles?

 

[renault12ts]

That's a modern classic?! A W202 might be. That what was stolen looks highly vintage to me. What's the problem?

A vintage car is a car built between 1919 and 1930.

 

[MancMike]

So they're fixed timeframes in history, not relative to the current year at all?

Where is all this defined?

 

[Wheelsnuts]

Yes, they should refer to specific timeframes, though the terms are often loosely interpreted these days. The definitions can be Googled but I recollect them from qualifying categories in various car and motorcycle events, such as rallies and hill climbs, which I used to attend. Renault12ts interpretation of vintage is generally accepted: it covers the period post WW1 to 1930. The war years and the one month and a bit left of 1918 do not appear to count but I suppose very few cars were made and sold in November/December 1918! All very pedantic, I know.

 

[Londonscottish]

Lovely car , but I do wish people would stop referring to modern classics as 'vintage' which shows they clearly don't know the meaning of the term .

To hear how its continually misused I think to a lot of people "vintage" now must mean "before Facebook was invented" or something.

 

[219]

That's a modern classic?! A W202 might be. That what was stolen looks highly vintage to me. What's the problem?

Thank you for making my point in my above post so eloquently

Clearly , the established terms are not understood at all by a great many .

Definitions of different ages of vehicles have been defined and accepted for many decades .

There are bodies such as the

VCC ( veteran car club ) The Veteran Car Club of Great Britain

They organise the annual London to Brighton VETERAN car run , exclusively for pre 1904 vehicles , which celebrates the abolition of cars in Great Britain having to be preceded by a man with a red flag ! http://www.veterancarrun.com

VSCC ( Vintage Sports Car Club ) Vintage Sports-Car Club

FIVA ( Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens ) Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA) ? Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA)

or the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs FIVA

all of whom define such things .

Here's a page from an owners club website which defines such things

Vintage, Veteran & Classic Cars

Then you can ask authorities such as Lord Montagu or Lord March , who just may have some little knowledge of such matters .

Since Classic Cars can be anything produced from the end of WWII ( 1945 ) onwards , a 1971 car really is a 'modern Classic' . Newer cars such as W123 , W124 , W201 and R107 are really just on the cusp of 'classicdom' .

Where confusion sometimes arises is where , after the war , many motor manufacturers resumed production of pre war models , for Mercedes , where the Stuttgart factories had been virtually been bombed out of existence , they restarted initially by carrying out repairs and maintenance to existing cars , before production resumed with the W191 type 170 , which was based heavily on the pre war W136 of the same type designation and used the same M136 engine as its predecessor - the two models look very similar , hence confusion is widespread . The same it true of many other makes .

On the continent the term 'Old-timer' is variously used to describe vehicles more than 30 or so years of age , and seems to be applicable even to vintage and earlier vehicles ... for more recent vehicles of interest , such as your example W202 , the term 'future classic' or 'youngtimer' seems to be gaining popularity .

Hope this clarifies somewhat .

 

[AMGBlack]

I understood the accepted definitions to be "veteran" before WW1, "vintage" between 1918 and 1930, "post vintage" or sometimes "PVT" (post-vintage thoroughbred) up to WW2 and "classic" for the 40s and 50s, though the term has since been loosely extended to cover later vehicles?

When I left the Army, I got a letter a few years later stating I was entitled to wear a Veterans badge due to serving in the Military.

I left in 1989.

So does that mean even the UK government and the MOD are incorrectly using a specific date range and I should have been offered a badge called "Almost Classic Armed Forces"..
lol.

(yes I know it refers to cars, but that explains the reason why people refer to these kind of words (age), when it has been applied in a subject matter that they have been exposed too which is way different).

 

[MancMike]

A client of my Mrs' recently said they were getting a Bentley.

Naturally she expected to see big Continental on the drive. It was an 1991 Turbo R, she described it as a Museum car.

 

[219]

This is a big Continental

 

[MancMike]

This is a big Continental

Sorry, I meant a good continental.

(honestly didn't know they made a continental historically.)

Hey, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know I learned what shooting brake means the other day!

 

[219]

So , you never watched Jason King then !