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280sl Gray Market Euro 73,000 Km, Recaros Custom Interior Southern California on 2040-cars

US $3,990.00
Year:1977 Mileage:72720
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 MERCEDES-BENZ 280SL SUPER LOW MILEAGE 45,300 MILES,  GREY MARKET EURO TWIN CAM 6 CYLINDER.  BROUGHT TO CALIFORNIA IN 1977, POSSIBLE 1 OWNER, DEFINITELY THE SAME OWNER SINCE 1985 PINK SLIP. 

INTERIOR--- LEATHER FROM VISORS TO CENTER CONSOLE, DASH, CONSOLE, DOOR PANELS, VISORS, SEATS ARE ALL LEATHER!  RECARO STYLE SEATS,  REAR JUMP SEAT.  To note-- The car has only been washed after sitting for many years,  The interior will detail up beautifully,  one of the jump seats will need recovering and the 1inch thick strip of wood that runs the dash from outer vent to outer vent will need to be replaced.  THE INTERIOR WILL CLEAN UP VERY NICELY.  FROM HEADLINER TO CARPETS IT WILL BE EXCELLENT. 

EXTERIOR--- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ALWAYS,  GROUND EFFECTS KIT, 16INCH DEEP DISH RIMS.  The undercarriage of the car is in excellent condition.  The body of the car has some surface rust here and there, at the body side molding,  fender fronts, deck lid were the spoiler was installed. It seems to be original paint and I don't see any body work except for when the spoiler and ground effects were installed.  The original euro bumpers are under the fiberglass body kit. 

MECHANICAL--- RUNS AND DRIVES GREAT,  2 NEW FUEL PUMPS,  NEW BATTERY,  HAS A/C,  To Note-- the brakes are a little in need of exercising due to lack of use.  Cruises beautifully down the highway at 80+.  Plenty of power., smooth shifting transmission.  Power locks and windows work as they should.

I BOUGHT THE CAR 7 MONTHS AGO AND WAS GOING TO PLAY WITH IT AND I HAVE USED IT 4 TIMES.  I WISH I HAD THE TIME EVEN TO DETAIL IT.

I will happily organize wholesale low cost bonded and insured transport to anywhere in the world.  For a quote please provide a zip or city and country. 


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2014 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG S 4Matic [w/video]

Wed, 20 Feb 2013

Maybe you saw our recent blog snippet on a bunch of US journos getting pulled over in the middle of nowhere in Catalunya, Spain for driving a bunch of new 2014 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG models. By all accounts, they weren't speeding - which makes me softly guffaw. I was there in that group, yet I had taken the more direct route into the mountains from Barcelona so that I could... well, so that I could go faster. No one hassled me and I had the Autovia all to myself. And it was the goodniks - the team players - who got nabbed because Spain had decided to suddenly enforce the never enforced "must carry an international driver's license" clause of the highway code.
The departing E63 AMG with 518 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque from its M157 5.5-liter biturbo V8 hasn't exactly been poorly received. It isn't as crisp as, nor as pleasantly evil as its C63 AMG kid brother, but we generally accept that the heavier and larger car will always feel, well, heavier and larger.
As part of the 2014 E-Class mid-cycle redesign, Affalterbach decided to give its E63 AMG more power and torque for the occasion. The base car now gives off 550 hp and 531 lb-ft, while the hotter S version I tested (formerly the AMG Performance Pack) produces 577 hp and 590 lb-ft. The other big novelty is that E63 sedans will be available with both rear- and all-wheel drive, while all US-spec E63 wagons will be 4Matic equipped.

2015 Australian Grand Prix all about grooves and trenches [spoilers]

Sun, Mar 15 2015

We can't remember the last time 90 percent of the action in Formula One had nothing to do with cars setting timed laps. Yet that's was the situation at the Australian Grand Prix, continuing the antics from a scarcely believable off-season with blow-ups, driver and team absences, a lawsuit, and a clear need for some teams to get down and give us 50 pit stops. Nothing much has changed from a regulation standpoint, and at the front of the field nothing has changed at all. Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas claimed the first position on the grid like someone put a sign on it that read, "Reserved for Mr. Hamilton;" teammate Nico Rosberg was 0.6 behind in second, Felipe Massa in the Williams was 1.4 seconds back in third. Sebastian Vettel proved that Ferrari didn't do another Groundhog Day routine this off-season, slotting into fourth. His teammate Kimi Raikkonen was not even four-hundredths of a second behind, ahead of Valtteri Bottas in the second Williams, Daniel Ricciardo in the first Infiniti Red Bull Racing, and rookie Carlos Sainz, Jr. in the first Toro Rosso. Lotus, now powered by Mercedes, got both cars into the top ten with Romain Grosjean in ninth, Pastor Maldonado in the final spot. However, even though the regulations are almost all carryover, in actual fact, everything has changed this year. Mercedes is even faster. Renault is even worse. Ferrari and Lotus are a lot better. Toro Rosso is looking like anything but a junior team. And McLaren is – well, let's not even get into that yet. Furthermore, this weekend was shambles: 15 cars started the race, the smallest naturally-occurring grid since 1963. Manor couldn't get its cars ready before qualifying. Bottas had to pull out after qualifying when he tore a disc in his back and couldn't pass the medical clearance tests. The gearbox in Daniil Kvyat's Red Bull gave out on the lap from the pit to the grid, and to give misery some company, the Honda in Kevin Magnussen's McLaren blew up on the same lap. When the lights went out, Hamilton ran away and was more than a second ahead of his teammate at the end of Lap 1. The advantage disappeared, though, because behind him, at the first corner, we got our first pile-up. As Raikkonen drove around the outside of Vettel at the right-hand Turn 1 it looked like Vettel, going over the kerbing, hopped to his left and bounced into Raikkonen.

Daimler names Bernd Pischetsrieder to supervisory board

Mon, 14 Apr 2014

Some executives in the automotive industry stay with one company for their entire careers, while others bounce from one to the other, often leaving their indelible mark on each automaker at which they serve. Bob Lutz is certainly an example of the latter. So is Lee Iacocca, having presided over Ford and later charing the Chrysler board. Carlos Tavares was chief operating officer of Renault before being nominated as chief executive at PSA Peugeot Citroën. But as far as the Germans go, nobody's jumped from the leadership of one automaker to the next quite like Bernd Pischetsrieder - especially now that he's been named to the supervisory board of Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler.
An engineer by training, Pischetsrieder started his career at BMW in 1973, eventually rising to the office of CEO after twenty years. There he remained until 1999, only to be dismissed after orchestrating BMW's takeover of the Rover Group (of which only the Mini brand remains in the company's portfolio, the other brands having been sold off after his dismissal).
The next year he was named chairman of Volkswagen's Seat brand, and rose to the chairmanship of the entire Volkswagen Group two years later. Despite a largely successful four-year tenure (that gave birth, incidentally, to the Bugatti Veyron), disagreements with supervisory board chairman Ferdinand Piëch saw him leave the helm at VW AG, focusing his attention on the Scania truck division. He's since been touted as a potential chief executive for Opel and for Continental, but neither potential was apparently realized.