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W109
Chassis n° 109.018.12.002140
RM Sotheby's
Place Vauban
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2020
Estimated : € 150.000 - 200.000
Sold for € 432.500
Arguably AMG’s most iconic vehicle, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL ‘Red Pig’ jump-started the small company’s rise to fame, leading to Mercedes-Benz’s eventual takeover of the tuning house roughly twenty years ago.
Modified at a customer’s request, AMG started with a damaged 300 SEL and turned it into an all-out racing machine. Boring the engine out to 6.8 litres, which produced 420 bhp, AMG fitted aluminium doors, widened the track, fitted larger tyres, and flared the wheel arches. Due to its ungainly proportions and red paintwork, the car was quickly nicknamed the ‘Red Pig’, but soon enough the car proved itself in the crucible of motorsport. At the 1971 24 Hours of Spa, the car won its class and finished 2nd overall, having started 5th on the grid.
While the original ‘Red Pig’ was eventually used in aircraft testing leading to its destruction, a handful of faithful replicas have been built, including one by Mercedes-Benz. This example started as an accident-free, 1969 model year 300 SEL 6.3 and was restored to a ‘Red Pig’ replica by the Mercedes-Benz specialists at Arthur Bechtel Classic Motors in Böblingen, Germany. Purchased by James Goo Kim, CEO of D.Parts of South Korea, directly from Arthur Bechtel, it has travelled less than 800 km since its conversion.
Veteran ex-government locomotives 44204 (NSWGR), GM27 (CR), S317 (VR) and 44206 (NSWGR) pour on the power as they prepare to tackle the grades up to Marrangaroo tunnel with 1877 container freight from Cooks River to Kelso (Bathurst). A short train (the rear wagon can be seen in the background), it is quite heavy when loaded, hence the four locomotives required to haul it.
Car of the Australian Consulate General Hong Kong. Seen here leaving the flag raising ceremony for the China National Day celebrations, October 1st 2017.
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3016 powers up the grade between Pine Range 1 & 2 tunnels with 9S50 Canberra Railway Museum's Father's Day train to Bungendore. 4807 is at the rear of the train.
HMS Seawolf - second batch of WW2 S class british submarines. Fought WW2 and participate in the hunt of the Bismarck. Was eventually transfered to Nova Scotia, Canada to help Royal Canadian Navy to train in anti-submarine warfare.
Coachwork by AMG
W126
41.000 km
€ 79.000,-
5.547 cc
V8
279 PS
Vmax : 320 km/h
Techno Classica 2019
Essen
Deutschland - Germany
April 2019
West Coast Rail's S302 waits to depart from Spencer Street station with its all orange consist to Warnambool on 10-11-1996
Still a strong presence on the rails 60 years after construction, S302 rests around the Seymour Turntable awaiting to be converted from Standard to Broad Gauge.
S302 was built in 1957 and has had many owners and operators over the years including the Victorian Railways, V/Line, West Coast Railway, El Zorro and currently with SSR.
S302 will once again be hauling freight trains in Victoria after gauge conversion and a much needed tidy up.
Friday 3rd November 2017.
S313 B74 departs seymour with the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre New Year's eve special from Seymour to Melbourne.
31/12/2012 Copyright S312 Photography
West Coast Railway's S302 stands at the Ballarat East depot on 8-8-2000 after receiving its second repaint into the WCR scheme
This was for sale at £5750, apparently showing only 55k miles and with a telephone number in Newmarket, not from where it was sold by Maloney & Rhodes in Cambridge at some point.
A Trasco 1000 SEL 44 photographed in Shanghai, Shanghai municipality, China.
I discovered this limousine thanks to some Chinese friends.
Trasco was a German company specialized in Mercedes-Benz converting.
Its main product in 1980s was on the base of Mercedes W126.
Several limousines were based on the W126. Stretched by 15", 18", 36" and 44" like this one.
A very rare vehicle in China.
Carnewschina's Tycho saw one in Beijing : carnewschina.com/2016/12/08/spotted-in-china-trasco-1000-...
S312,T363,S302,P14 have just departed Boort yard after a crew change with an empty grain train to Quambatook on 9-4-21
S303 and S313 prepare to run around their train at Southern Cross Station, having arrived with a Steamrail Victoria special from Tocumwal. Tocumwal lies on the NSW side of the Murray River, and once boasted a standard and broad gauge platform, although the NSW standard gauge connection been removed. Tocumwal receives no regular passenger (rail) services, although it does see a freight train to/from Melbourne on an almost daily basis.
S300 and S311 have just arrived at Central with the AK cars. They have just ran around their train and are seen awaiting their departure.
Mileage: 46,114 miles @ March 2017
Engine: 3,499 cc V8 engine
Output: 200 hp @ 5,800 rpm
Top speed: 130 mph (210 km/h)
Production: 3,270 cars built - 1969 -1971
Designer: Paul Bracq
This completely original car was originally supplied to Malta.
Mercedes-Benz World, Brooklands - September 2016
W111
Chassis n° 111.027-12-004473
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais 2020
Bonhams
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2020
Estimated : € 300.000 - 350.000
Sold for € 299.000
"If you feel obligated to ask about the price you not only will never understand the car, you have branded yourself incapable of ever appreciating its virtues even if someone gave you one." – Car & Driver on the Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5.
The fact that the esteemed American motoring magazine felt compelled to remark on the 280SE's price is understandable when one considers that at $13,500 in 1970 it was not only $3,500 more than that of the equivalent Mercedes-Benz sedan but also more than double that of a Cadillac Deville Coupe!
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, air conditioning, 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 1959 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, and today these last-of-the-line classics are highly sought after by discerning Mercedes-Benz collectors.
One of 1,232 Cabriolets produced, this Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 has the desirable floor-shift gearbox. This car was delivered new to the Cremer family in Schwarzenfeld, Germany and was first registered on 6th July 1971. The car later changed hands officially but stayed in the family, moving to Dr Gottfried Cremer in 1982 while keeping the same registration, 'NAB-L403'.
Sold to renowned collector Heiko Seekamp of Bremen in 1987, the Mercedes was purchased in 1999 by a Mr Wolfram Kruse, remaining in Germany. In 2007 the car was re-sprayed in a darker shade of blue and then in 2014 was sold to the current owner who returned it to its original and striking light blue colour scheme.
The accompanying DEKRA inspection/taxation report of 2017 confirms the Cabriolet's excellent condition and makes the following observation: "The car seems to have been restored to a very high standard with a recent professional re-spray in the original colour scheme, seemingly to excellent standard. Paint is hard to fault with a very good finish, paint thickness shows uniform results."
The report found the interior to be "lovely presented, with beautifully patinated seats and new carpets. Original dashboard and revised/restored correct switch gear (in working order). The dark blue soft top is new."
The engine started and ran instantly with no heavy smoke, and the report's overall conclusion was that the Mercedes had been restored to the highest standards, was presented in excellent condition, and was ready to be used.