600

There was Always a rumour, that for a 600 even a BED could be ordered .....

Now I got a copy of a productioncard, THAT PROOVES, THAT THAT KW-OPTION realy was ORDERED

[:o)] [:)]

Interesting[8D]. A totally disproportionately large number exported to Australia per head of population. Population of Australia at that time was about 15000000, same as New York, London or Los Angeles.
Art

Official factory data :

Also appears to have a full width wooden grill in front of the rear screen which is not in other cars.
Art

Here is a realy clear picture of the chrome airinlet behind the rearwindow on the very very early cars: (watch also on the hoodshelf)

Remarkable point for classifying:

Untill Vin 000637 these cars had a CHROMED rearmirror in the interior:





Vin 000637 and up had a black plastic rearmirror.

The 3axle Heffner car showed up by Pollmann in Bremen Germany:

In that case it was NOT wrecked ..... (but now missing the third axle)

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Originally posted by FLY

all pics broken down

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It must have been on E-bay forever as it is still coming up today as sold for $295.
Eventually on all the links posted they will become dead, at least include a little description, or it'll become totally pointless at one time in the future....(your posting, that is....)

N L A County

Found again a new unknown LWB (in case a 6-door version) WITHOUT DIVIDER Vin unknown, but is second series
Here is a pic: (the fifth known build ; See page 3 under KW 09671 Removed divider in LWB – Front seats hydraulic adjustable )





This car has also : KW 09466/01 Klappsitz mitte im W100.016
folding seat middle W100.016 !!

Now the search is on for its unknown VIN [:o)]

added a pictures of the KW-Options (only for 100.014-serie):

KW 05997/03 Uher (Reporter) Tape deck ( see page 2)

Now found some new KW-optionnumbers and SA-numbers:

KW 09481/07 : Roofantenna middle rear

KW 09740/01 : Light inside in Bar in divider

KW 09741/01 : Cassetteholder in divider rightside and no foldingtable rightside

KW 05985/09 : Foldingtable leftside divider; outside covered with leather

SA 55988/01 : Rear foglight Hella but mounted UP on the bumper left

When the first one of those TVs showed up on ebay ages and ages ago, it sold for like 30$. I considered buying one to convert into an ignition oscilloscope. Nothing like checking the ignition behavior from behind the wheel at speed.

-CTH

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Originally posted by neilc

Considering there are a few pics earlier in the thread of these Sony TV's, look what's popped up on Ebay.

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With most countries now broadcasting exclusively in digital, a TV like this will be little more than an expensive piece of non-functional sculpture in your car.

all pics broken down

Considering there are a few pics earlier in the thread of these Sony TV's, look what's popped up on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Factory-Sony-Micro-TV-Mercedes-108-109-600-6-3-3-5-Limo-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem53e61488b8QQitemZ360342390968QQptZVintageQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories



Cristal - 1971 300 SEL 6.3 #5549, UK RHD

So here is car 00624, which has a unusual shift-stick ...

Older control in black:





That was in all the cars up to /until Vin 642.
except for RHD-Landaulet 601 (Sultan of Brunei) and the Vins:
615, 621, 637, 638, 639 and 640.

Vin 642 and all the later cars had the control in regular wood.

In the original posting was promessed a picture of the old console, but I can't add pictures in that posting. Also added a picture of the automatic closingunithook.

So here are some pictures:













This smaller gearboxtunnels switched to the bigger gearboxtunnels between Vin 790 and Vin 794 (where could be an exeption for some LWB, while longer buildtime)

The hydraulic closingunithook:





and again from an other angle:

Here some custom-cars
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and an older picture from this car:




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Art, that makes FIVE from 10 produced RHD:
100-015-22-000601 Sultan v Brunei (Presidential)
100-015-22-001743 Sultan v Brunei (short softtop)
100-015-22-001942 Australie (Presidential)
100-015-22-002020 Premier South Africa (short softtop)
and this last blue one from Johor, I am still searching for that VIN.
(As I am informed correct it should be a later one from may be 1977)

Oooops,
I just now read you spoke about three PRESIDENTIAL Landaulets. So that is three from five produced RHD presidentials.

Greetings to the south and many thanks for the many detailpictures of the australian landaulet.

So that makes 3 RHD presidential landaulets.
Art