This HAS to be worth saving.

[kikkthecat]

I wish I had the time and space but I dont.
A lot of car for what at the moment is little money. must be worth a punt as a rolling restoration project.

450 SEL 6.9

Wasn't NW Merc after something a little on the large side ?

 

[mattc]

Love it Ray. Just need a big spare garage to put it in.

Presumably despite the huge engine the thing does not go that well and corners like a super tanker?

 

[nick mercedes]

Love it Ray. Just need a big spare garage to put it in.

Presumably despite the huge engine the thing does not go that well and corners like a super tanker?

They drive well as it happens.

 

[fatherpierre]

They are surprisingly nimble for such a heavy and antiquated car.

Only 286bhp from that engine has always made me wonder if the chief engineer was a p1ss head who couldn't be bothered!

This particular motor has been on ebay several times over the past year from different sellers - could be the same person using different accounts. Makes me wonder what sort of money pit it really is.

Still definitely worth saving though - even though they drink petrol like they have a serious fuel leak!

 

[popuptoaster]

Thats not cheap for a car with no MOT, if it was as simple to get it through a ticket as the seller reckons why hasnt he done it himself? would make it MUCH easier to sell.

 

[ms500]

Now that is a real car.

 

[neilrr]

286 bhp was enormous output in it's day.

Compare it to other cars of the era, not today's cars.

 

[merc_forever]

When I left uni I took a summer off and 4 of us put £500 each into buying the exact same car as this. We got it on ebay and did absolutely nothing to it before we went off driving round Europe. We covered 10,000 miles that summer, blasting down the autobahn through fields and generally not caring for it in the slightest. It guzelled fuel and oil but we loved that old girl. All the electrics worked perfectlly and it did not let us down once. Even brought us over a river one day in Norway......

Ater the 3 months we got home, each of us going off to start working, we put it back on ebay and got exactly what we paid for it. An amazing car!

 

[fatherpierre]

286 bhp was enormous output in it's day.

Compare it to other cars of the era, not today's cars.

Not for that cc it wasn't.

The 450SE put out 225bhp with far less CC to play with and the earlier Plymouth Barracuda with about 300cc more churned out just short of 400bhp.

A very lazy engine.