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I Looked up the records I have for the car. It was delivered to Neil July of 1977. Selling dealer was McIntosh of Mosman. That dealer is still there, although under different ownership and with a new name. I found a keyring from that dealer that I keep the keys to the SLC on - the keyring...

Nope! At least it found a good home

Thanks for Posting the photo Patrick! we’ll have to find a time for you to take another ride in the car, but 46 years later. if I recall the car was delivered to Neil in June of 1977, but I’ll check the records.

My saw my old 280SE this weekend and met the new owner who is really happy with the car: https://www.classicjalopy.com/2023/07/mbcnsw-bring-your-other-car-day/

Hammer prices:

Looks like its coming along well!

Description: 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 SE Year: 1974 Make: Mercedes-Benz Series: 116 Model: 280 SE Body: 4-Door Sedan Drive Type: Rear wheel drive Odometer: Indicating 93,447 Kilometres Engine: 2.7 I6 Petrol Transmission: 4-Speed Automatic Colour: White Seats: 5 Description/extras: More info to...

Most of the Mercedes on offer are terrible, except this one. Its not a popular colour scheme, but it looks really original down to the AM only Becker, and being D-Jet offers sprightly performance:

Lloyds auction finishing tomorrow:

Yes it’s been up for ages At this price. Looks like they are trying to imply it’s a real AMG.

That radio looks so good in the dash of your P4

My wife has an 07 E350 wagon and the transmission has never been touched to my knoweldge. Plenty of other issues with various sensors and the the balancer shaft issues, which exist outside the published range of engines. But the transmission has 195,000km on it with no issues. I also...

yes it certainly looked unloved back in 2018 when it was for sale.

Personally I would go with the update. The seven speed is a huge improvement and they sorted out a lot of issues with these cars as time progressed.

If they are genuine period correct AMGs then that might work, but if they are more modern, I think you get more for Mercedes when they are stock and unmodified.

Big decision! The biggest part of the enjoyment of owning these cars is using them as the engineers who designed them intended, so I can totally understanding cutting the fleet down to a manageable size. That said, are you sure you want to not have a single 6.9 in your fleet? As you've been...

great articles. really enjoying the read.

I'm glad you did! Such unqiue options in this car.

Thanks to a response to this post when it was shared to another page (British Leyland Chronicles), I can now add a little more about the 2.4-litre cars. There certainly was a sales brochure for them, issued by the Aulehla company and essentially the same as the 1962 MkIA 3-litre type but...