RE: Mercedes W124 Cabriolet: Guilty Pleasures

[r129sl]

Wile7: a sad tale, but your Mercedes did what was required of it. Not all cars would, even new ones.

[wile7]

Agreed sir. If I had been in my Caterham I doubt I'd be here (or at least not in very good shape from the waist down...)

[deeps3]

Here is mine

[deeps3]

[Leins]

Really wish I'd made the trip to see the AMG E36 one that was for sale a few years ago now. I'm not even really a fan of cabriolets, but these cars are just pure style IMO

[Rumblestripe]

The very definition of the word "classic" just beautifully proportioned and styled. It is no wonder given the quality of the engineering of this car how their values have held up.

[RobinBanks]

wile7, your car was lovely!

I'd really like to try one of those dogleg cars.

[swissstef]

I've had my E220 Cab for a good few years now, absolutely love it, smooth and refined for the family, the total opposite of my Westfield which is just for me.

[Ray Singh]

Found one here at a decent price - I wonder whats wrong wih it? Engineis the 2.2 four pot I guess. Not ideal.

http://www.mercseller.com/index.php?pg=view&id...



£3950

[TonyF55]

Would I be right in thinking that it is quite expensive to get those rear roll over 'headrests' reset i.e. pushed back down again ? there not something you can raise/lower within the cabin are they ?

Might be barking up the wrong tree here.

[MarshPhantom]

Door looks a bit wonky, odd selection of pics. Mostly taken showing the front drivers side.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

pSyCoSiS said:

Beautiful cars. Built properly. Get better with age.

E320 Sportline in Almadine Red with Mushroom Leather for me please!

This man speaks sense!

Mine:

[CharlesdeGaulle]

TonyF55 said:

Would I be right in thinking that it is quite expensive to get those rear roll over 'headrests' reset i.e. pushed back down again ? there not something you can raise/lower within the cabin are they ?

You can raise them electrically whenever you want. In fact, the little red lamps in the switch flash for the first 10 secs after starting, to prompt you to consider raising them if you have rear-seat passengers; they rise explosively should the car roll, but the handbook advises raising them anyway if the rear seat is in use with the roof down.

Just one example of the thought and design that went into these wonderful things.

Edited by CharlesdeGaulle on Wednesday 5th August 21:20

[TonyF55]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

TonyF55 said:

Would I be right in thinking that it is quite expensive to get those rear roll over 'headrests' reset i.e. pushed back down again ? there not something you can raise/lower within the cabin are they ?

You can raise them electrically whenever you want. In fact, the little red lamps in the switch flash for the first 10 secs after starting, to prompt you to consider raising them if you have rear-seat passengers; they rise explosively should the car roll, but the handbook advises raising them anyway if the rear seat is in use with the roof down.

Just one example of the thought and design that went into these wonderful things.

Edited by CharlesdeGaulle on Wednesday 5th August 21:20

Fair enough, I thought they only raised explosively in the event of a crash/roll over.

Yours is lovely, Is your car one of the early CE Convertibles before they got renamed E220/E320 ?

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CharlesdeGaulle said:

pSyCoSiS said:

Beautiful cars. Built properly. Get better with age.

E320 Sportline in Almadine Red with Mushroom Leather for me please!

This man speaks sense!

Mine:

Agh, if only somehow I could have drugged you to sell me this instead of the SL when I visited - I LOVE the SL, but your W124 cab is just wonderful.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

TonyF55 said:

Yours is lovely, Is your car one of the early CE Convertibles before they got renamed E220/E320 ?

Thank you!

Mine is a 320CE, and one of the 'in-between' cars, so it had the old model designation you refer to, the star on the radiator grille, and the ambers of the older cars, but also the chrome inserts on the door handles and along the top of the sacco panels of the facelift.

There were a number of other changes but they are the most obvious at first glance.

[MarshPhantom]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

TonyF55 said:

Yours is lovely, Is your car one of the early CE Convertibles before they got renamed E220/E320 ?

Thank you!

Mine is a 320CE, and one of the 'in-between' cars, so it had the old model designation you refer to, the star on the radiator grille, and the ambers of the older cars, but also the chrome inserts on the door handles and along the top of the sacco panels of the facelift.

There were a number of other changes but they are the most obvious at first glance.

My 24V has the chrome inserts the same as yours but it's from 1990.

[MadDog1962]

W124s are wonderful old things. If cared for they'll go on and on. They have a few well known gremlins that are relatively easy to sort, but otherwise hard to find anything as well made in last 20 years since they ceased production.

The convertibles are perfect cruise mobiles, ideal transport for Florida and probably the Med coast of Spain and France. Not intended to be driven hard. Believe it or not some cars are best enjoyed at legal speeds. :-)

[soad]

E36 AMG, anyone?

[wile7]

A very nice RHD E36 cabriolet with good photos here...It looks like the old JustinBanks garage in the UK?



http://nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de/MB-Exotenforum/boar...

I nearly bought one before I bought that sportline E320. It was about £2k more but with hindsight it might not have lasted too long either :roll eyes:

Edited by wile7 on Thursday 6th August 10:58