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Veteran EMD streamliners B61, S317 and GM27 have seen plenty of sunrises over the course of their careers. On a warm summer evening in January 2014, these three veterans find themselves quietly contemplating their futures in Eskbank Yard, Lithgow. Hopefully the gathering storm clouds overhead are not a metaphor for their future.
Citroën SM x3
Citroën BX
Citroën H
Renault 4CV
Renault R5
Peugeot 205
Mercedes SClass W116
BMW Serie7 E23
Peugeot 202 UH Canadienne
Berliet PCMR RATP
W126
RM Sotheby's
Place Vauban
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2020
Estimated : € 100.000 - 140.000
Unsold (Highest bid : € 80.000)
Completed at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen factory in August of 1989, this exceptional 560 SEL was delivered new to AMG Japan for further fettling prior to delivery to its first owner. It is thus equipped with the hand-built 6.0-litre AMG version of the M117 V-8 engine with four valve heads. Its peak power output of 375 bhp makes it a very different proposition to the standard 560 SEL with its 285 bhp. The AMG body kit was also added, alongside three-piece split-rim wheels, an AMG instrument cluster, steering wheel, and overmats.
Showing just over 60,000 kilometres, it is in good condition for its age, free of corrosion and showing minimal cosmetic wear. It is accompanied by a rich service history which attests to routing ‘no expense spared’ servicing every two years in Japan; indeed, the three annual service bills between 2009 and 2013 total over €14.000. More recently it has been imported to Switzerland, where it has continued to be regularly maintained and exercised.
Pre-merger AMG build numbers are notoriously scarce, but it is believed that less than 200 of these 6.0 SELs were made. Few would more usable than this well-cared-for example.
GM27, 44206, S302 and 44204 pour it on for the assembled photographers as they ascend the horseshoe curve at Locksley with 1877 freight to Kelso.
Location: New York City, NY
This post concludes my non-exotic domestic license plates. I will start uploading domestic plates on exotic cars tomorrow.
This vehicles belongs to the Consulate General of Lebanon in Manhattan, just a few blocks away from where I've taken this foto.
FJ = Lebanon
C = Consulate
Paignton 17/4/01
Scania N113 / Alexander RH
New to London Buses as S23 at WH 11/91.
Privatised to Stagecoach 9/94.
Transferred to Stagecoach Devon 5/00.
Sold 1/11.
A Mercedes-Benz S-Class V140 photographed in Beijing, Beijing municipality, China.
A poor old Benz abandonned in south-east Beijing for a long time.
Many of these are gone of Beijing, because they are now forbidden (too old = polluting) in a growing area.
SSR/CRL units BRM002, 4917, 4911, S317 & 442s1 (out of view) sit at Carrington awaiting their next duties.
Location: Berlin - 657km from home.
Liechtenstein plates are one of my favorite spots and they make for an even nicer spot on a black car. I've seen this S-Class last year again.
Alco 4477 stands alongside EMD locos B65 and S302 underneath the rainbow at Goulburn roundhouse during the Streamliners event on 30-9-2016
S131,B76,T395 stop at the Barnes Block point with the P&O Rice train from Deniliquin with hired Steamrail loco S313 leading B76,T395 on 14-10-11
On hire from SSR, SRHC and CFCLA respectively, B75 leads S303 and VL356 into Southern Cross as 9475 empty QUBE Logistics paper train bound for the Australian Paper Mill at Maryvale in Eastern Victoria.
Monday 23rd January 2017
Car: Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL (W109).
Year of manufacture: 1971.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st August 2014.
Registration region: Kingston-Upon-Hull.
Date taken: 14th September 2014.
Location: Easter Compton, South Gloucestershire, UK.
Class leader S3301 works a loaded bauxite train towards Kwinana on 19-11-08.
11 if the Westrail S class were built in 1998 with S3301 entering service as S2101 in June 1998 and renumbered under the ARG scheme in December 2000.
The frames were built at Somerton Victoria, Components built at Bathurst NSW and constructed in Westrail's Forrestfield depot
Location: Berlin - 187km from home.
I liked this plate for its three 5s, although it's absolutely unclear to me what this plate could mean. You can see this car very often in Berlin, which isn't all that surprising.
Z = Zachodniopomorskie
The occasional Canberra to Sydney scrap metal train runs into Goulburn behind venerable ex VR S311 and three other CFCLA-liveried units. The leading two locos were detached at Goulburn for other duties, leaving the two CM "Disney" locos to continue to Sydney.
While B61 sits on the Goulburn Turntable during the night shoot , locos around the turntable reflect in the paint work with other locos S317, S300, 4486 and GM27 form the background on Sunday 2-10-2016
S313 (and S301) sit at the most Northern point in Victoria having just hauled the train from Melbourne as 8195 at the end of the line at Yelta.
S313 was painted in a special Louisville & Nashville livery for the filming of The Pacific, a 10 part mini series which focuses on the United States Marine Corps actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War.
Saturday 31st October 2009
W112
RM Sotheby's
Place Vauban
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2020
Estimated : € 60.000 - 80.000
Sold for € 39.100
Mercedes-Benz introduced the W112-generation 300 SE coupé and cabriolet at the March 1962 Geneva Motor Show. Just thirteen per week were built, largely by hand. In all, just 3,127, including 630 in 1963, were produced through 1967. Power is supplied by a 160 bhp, 3.0-litre, six-cylinder engine, and standard equipment includes air suspension, power steering, and four-wheel disc brakes.
Originally delivered to the United States, this example was sent from there to Finland in 1992, at which time it was repainted. According to the previous owner, he drove the car sparingly from 2005 to 2014, adding less than 5,000 km. Finished in a stunning Dark Green Metallic over a cognac interior, this lovely example is fitted with both a factory sunroof and a rare floor-shifted four-speed manual transmission.
The consignor has invested €25.000 in work since purchasing the car in 2015. Front and rear axles were completely dismantled and replaced with original parts. The clutch was replaced and the brakes renewed along with the air suspension, including all bellows and valves. All work was done by a renowned Mercedes-Benz specialist recommended by Mercedes-Benz clubs in Germany, and invoices for this work are on file.
This is a very well-kept, technically excellent vehicle with rare equipment in an attractive colour combination.
W111
Zoute Sale - Bonhams
Estimated : € 75.000 - 100.000
Sold for € 83.375
Zoute Grand Prix 2022
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2022
'Exclusive' is a much bandied-about word in the classic car world, but it is a most apt description of the Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5. Why? Because at $13,500 in 1970 its price was not only $3,500 more than that of the equivalent Mercedes-Benz sedan but also more than double that of a Cadillac Deville Coupé! Commonplace it was not.
The 3.5-litre version of the 280 SE typifies the resurgence of larger-engined Mercedes-Benz models that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the progressive easing of fiscal constraints, which had dissuaded customers from buying cars with large capacity engines, encouraged the German manufacturer to offer bigger, more potent power units. Thus the ultra-luxurious 280 SE Coupé/Cabriolet and 300 SEL saloon were the models chosen by Mercedes-Benz to launch its magnificent new 3.5-litre V8 engine in September 1969. An over-square design featuring a cast-iron block and aluminium-alloy cylinder heads, each equipped with a single overhead camshaft, this all-new, state-of-the-art power unit produced 200bhp courtesy of Bosch electronic fuel injection and transistorised ignition.
The new V8 engine had particularly smooth-running characteristics and endowed the 280 SEs with performance superior to that of many out-and-out sports cars. Thus equipped, the Coupé/Cabriolet was good for 125mph (200km/h) with 60mph (97km/h) reachable in 9.5 seconds, a substantial improvement on the six-cylinder version's figures. As befitted top-of-the-range luxury models, the 280 SE 3.5 Coupé and Cabriolet came equipped with automatic transmission, power windows, and a stereo radio as standard.
Although the equivalent SEL saloon used the 'New Generation' bodyshell, the 280 SE Coupé and Cabriolet kept the elegant coachwork that had debuted back in 1960/1961 on the 220 SE. Nevertheless, there had been some refinements made: the radiator shell was lower and wider, with a correspondingly flatter front end to the bonnet, a characteristic that has led to enthusiasts referring to these face-lifted cars as 'flat radiator' models, while the bumpers were now fitted with rubber strips. Significantly, the 280 SE 3.5 was to be the final model featuring this long-established and much-admired body style. It was truly Mercedes-Benz's flagship model, representing status, luxury and reliability. Today these last-of-the-line classics are highly sought after by discerning Mercedes-Benz collectors.
Most elegantly finished in the original colour combination of beige grey (beigegrau) with bamboo (bambus) coloured leather interior, this beautifully presented Mercedes-Benz incorporates a host of desirable options including a Becker Grand Prix radio; central armrests front and rear; heated rear screen; additional spotlights; automatic transmission; electric sliding sunroof; and electric windows.
As per the Mercedes-Benz data card (copy on file), the car was sold new via the Munich based dealer (code 226) but its first custodian was a medical doctor based in Vienna. The doctor owned the Mercedes from new until 1989 when the car was sold to its second Austrian owner, who would keep it until 2012 (copies of Austrian registration documents are on file). In 2012 the car was sold via a German dealer to its first German owner, who in turn sold it to the current vendor, a very well-respected collector of fine cars based in Munich. Clearly this car has been looked after all its life, and recent expenditure includes the following:
• 2017: comprehensive service by Mercedes-Benz in Munich including a comprehensive brake service; repair of the power-assisted steering; cooling circuit overhaul; installing new engine mounts; check and repair of heating and ventilation system, etc for a total of €14,600
• 2018: overhaul of the automatic gearbox and further smaller repairs, again at Mercedes-Benz Munich €5,530
• 2018: installing safety belts at CarTech Knowledge, Ismaning near Munich €2,000
• 2020: dry ice blasting and repair of some rust on wheel arches including paint, again at CarTech €5,150
• 2021: service with some minor repairs at CarTech €3,050