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Even I would look cool in this one
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You have good taste in cars. I don't follow the markets but wonder if the couples with the gullwings bring more money?
And you could be here...
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When I lived in Santa Barbara, CA (late '80s) there was a '62 180 SL - for ~$18K in mint shape -
Boy I lusted after that for a while- but I wasn't even making that much per year then....
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Still, I'd take the ragtop for a spin if given the chance... :)
making them heavier.
All these early - swing-axle IRS at rear - Mercs needed a really good driver to be driven fast around corners, including the sedans. The later low-pivot design was better, but even then. ....
Very nice ride given that they were very quick cars as well.
I was fortunate to know well the son of the Merc dealer in Newcastle, NSWales, in the mid to late 1960s.
In my twenties in Canberra I learned to drive a Beetle and keep it going at <4K rpm. So I'd had to learn to catch the back-end with a bit of opposite lock as it came around.
IIRC a compensator-bar on the rear-end both postponed the tail-slide and made it very quick when it did happen.
Someone once let me drive their 90hp 356 and was quite pale when I eventually slowed down, as asked. ;-)
Fairly certain I don't have the reflexes for that these days. I did with the big Cressida. Miss that car as a distance driver, but not its maintenance and running costs. Our basic fleet-build* Camry ACV36R is quicker point-to-point long-distance, but it's not involving to drive.
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Tim Bailey
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...if I wanted a convertible, I'd go for the '57 190SL.
I like the simpler lines of the 190SL, too.
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...in about 1974 who bought an older 190SL.He used it as an everyday driver and the maintenance got to be too costly.
He sold it and bought a BMW 2002.
Both very nice cars.
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