World's Fastest Station Wagon Cost More Than a House! Mercedes SEL
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
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A huge thank you to the owner for allowing me to film with his car, and fantastic camera work by Vicent Clifford.
This is a beautiful coach built 1969 Mercedes Benz W109 300SEL 6.3 Estate by Crayford. The fastest estate in the world at the time…
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Thanks for the insight 🙏
The tailgate is good but the rear window looks like something made in a shed.
Mercedes did sell estates before the S123. Back in 1965 you could buy the W110 and the W111 Universal in every Mercedes dealership. The cars were made by IMA in Mechelen in Belgium and distributed to customers through the Mercedes dealerships. The 190, 190D, 200, 200D, 230 and the 230S were the models to choose from. Since the W110/111 chassies were dropped in 1968, they made very few of theese cars. Never the less, they were beautiful compared to the coach build brittish 108/109/116/114/115 estate attempts....
Thanks for the insight!
there were also the binz cars. Benzes with ambulance bodies. essentially a station wagon or estate car. Same basic logic though, they were all made by coach builders, not by Daimler Benz.
But those were all built by external companies/coachbuilders like this one, although with the permission of Mercedes-Benz. The S123 was the first true production estate made by Mercedes.
By some reason, the Universal was named "Safari" here in Sweden.
Ja, Universal utvecklades på IMA fabriken mellan Philipsson och Mercedes. Philipsson tjatade hål i huvudet på direktörerna i Stuttgart då Mercedes inte hade något att sätta emot Volvo Duett och Amazon kombimodellerna här i Sverige. På prov gjordes då 170 stycken 190/190D av årsmodell 1965 som samtliga skeppades till Sverige och såldes till handelsresande, taxibolag och alla som körde mycket för att utvärderas. Bilarna såldes under namnet Safari men när de väl börjat sälja W110/W111 kombimodellerna hos mercedes återförsäljarna världen över så ändrades namnet till Universal. Bilarna fortsatte säljas som Safari i Sverige till och med årsmodell 1968 då produktionen av fenan lades ned och man lanserade W114/W115.
I'm very happy to have found this channel. The cars and opportunities you're privy to are amazing. Well done!
…my oh my! She is a beautiful beast. She would fit perfectly in my garage between my first car from my late Grandfather 1972 280 SEL 4.5 and my Grandmother’s 1971 280 SE Cabriolet.
Imagine that!!! 😮
@@howardmckenna …one can always dream.
I think you’re forgetting that across the pond, Ford and Chevrolet both offered and built their wagons with optional big block power. Hagerty barn finds guy, Tom, has such one, a 1967 Ford wagon with a 428 and four speed, factory built, my guess it is much faster than this. There are also documented BelAir wagons with the 427 engine.
Both as rare as this beautiful Mercedes! Very nice video.
The MB 6.3 was the fastest of all production saloons when it came out.
Very interesting video about a unique car. Two corrections, if I may. First, all 300 SEL models (regardless of engine) have the chassis designation w109, NOT w108. Second, the suspension is air suspension. not hydraulic.
Thanks for the info!
Isn't it "air suspension PLUS hydraulic"? The same as from Citroen?
I am a huge fan of estates/avants/station wagons. Your videos are awesome! I get to see cars I only have seen in magazines. Thanks!
I see that the Crayford Cancer is showing beneath the vinyl on the D-pillar!
Crayford did some interesting work (*some* of it even aesthetically acceptable), but they weren't the greatest on fine metalwork or rustproofing.
I owned a 1972 (?) Mercedes-Benz W116 280 SE Crayford Estate that had previously belonged to the late (and infamous) Rolf Harris. The Crayford custom work was largely bog (which was by then falling out in huge slabs), and the Crayford welding was something to behold!
It was one of 16 remaining of 20 built. They all had serious Crayford Cancer.
Gosh!
The german car tuning factory ZENDER build serval W126 500 & 560 SET in the 1980/90s.
Mr. Clifford was such a joy to listen to on the Collecting Cars podcast, shame his instagram isn't public.
Worth noting that Mercedes quoted the BHP as net horsepower so 250 BHP was at the rear wheels, gross (crankshaft) horsepower was more like 300BHP.
Great info, thank you!
That is gorgeous! Back when a MB was a big deal!
The ultimate Green Over Tan family wagon! What a thing.
Thanks mr G.O.T!
Vinyl roofs on wagons look so wrong. That's what woodgrain side paneling is for. And on a coachbuilt one like this scream that it was cheaper than metal finishing the join in the roof (this is why American hearses still have padded vinyl landau tops, they cover an unfinished fiberglass cap).
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@@HorsepowerHuntersYT what sort of bollocks reply is that.....
What do you want me to say?
awesome machine....my appreciation to the select few that purchase a 300sel 6.9 v8, and commissioned a conversion into a proper estate
I need this baby in my garage right away.
For a 5K investment, I'd have thought they'd have (a) not used vinyl to hide the welds and (b) made a smoother transition to the cargo area on the roof. It looks like an add-on tent. Great concept, poor execution IMO.
It’s still very cool!
What a glorious car.
If Mercedes still built cars like this, they would have been ahead of Toyota. My grandfather had one and it has never been to the mechanic before. They were over-engineered and reliable. They should have kept these engines and keep improving them just like Toyota does instead of throwing new systems into their cars. Now, Mercedes is just like Fiat
If they still built cars like these they’d be bought out by investors from the Middle East who would cheapen them to be no better than necessary, then float on the reputation of the brand.
In fact, that’s what happened. It’s been about 30 years now.
Old school is best 💪🙏
Essentially every option he mentioned plus up to 7.4 liters were common in the US at that time
But everything on that MB was on a compeltely different level. And it was faster on top of that. Much more sophisticated build.
Awesome - love wagons!
I love it already.
Beautiful estate!
The only ford consul I can think of That possibly had tailgate and side windows Like that is the mk1 Granada shape consul
A bit miss leading to say consul
Because most people wouldn't think Granada shape
Just relaying what the owner told me in this instance
I think you are right the early granada was called a consul. And this definitely looks like the back of a granada estate. It just sounds a lot better if you say consul and it's not technically incorrect. And sacrificing a few granada estates means nothing.
@@chrishart8548 i think it's More mith than fact
Can't see a coach builder buying car's to cut them up for roof sections
Then bining the rest
Sure buy glass chrome trim a tailgate
But buying a car to cut up
The cost of a granda/consul estate
Plus the labour and profit
As a friend Said to me in the past don't let the truth get in the way of a good story
Granada came out in 72
There not mk1 Granada side windows
MK1 Granada has has curve bottom Left front of window Left side and bottom front right on right side
So the side glass hasn't come from any consul or Granada regardless of model
And none of the previous models shape was nothing like them
Fastest Estate car in the world was the Aston martin DB5 Shootin brake 148mph from 1965 untill Audi RS2 at 163mph
I should really say one of the fastest 🤫
There used to be a W116 wagon kicking about Pencoed in the 80's.
A Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth wagon with a 383 4bbl or 440 4bbl blew those away..I worked at a German Garage and I owned Chrysler products and the owner of the garage had a 4 door sedan and wagon with the 6.3 and they were quick but a 69 Chrysler product wagon with a 383 and 440 ate them...140 plus top speed the 4 door sedan did 152 mph..0-60 was a tire smoking 5 second range if you can hook/you cant! Like any 60's car the skinny bias ply tires had no traction even the roads they tested them on,it was like its wet.
Very nice, thanks for sharing that 🙏
Plus both ford and chevy offered their performance engines for their wagons
Fascinating. 140mph on those tyres? Fascinating and terrifying. Interesting that it has the same seatbelt system as my mum's 1979 Passat estate. I don't think it was an MB design, but by a British indy manufacturer. I may be wrong of course.
205/70/14 more like something you would find on a transit van.
@@chrishart8548 Ah, in that case probably good for 170mph lol
Back when Mercedes Benz was Built to a Standard and not a Price.
Any engine bigger than 5 lt should have more than 8 cylinders. And a stick-shift!
What a beautiful and unique car.
Glad you like it
503 nm actually but still that still a lot!
That's the best car in the fuckin world
It's an Austin maxi upper part of tailgate joined to lower part of Mercedes boot
100%
I googled a maxi zoomed in on hinges struts shape of glass
It's a maxi
Next il look up side glass
Yes, the gas station wagon
Title is definitely misleading, forgot to add in “1960s” lol i was expecting to see some extreme shit, but im glad i feel confident enough to continue to call my wagen the fastest in the world lol (10 sec golf sportwagen)
That cars a 69/70 the mk1 Granada shape consul didn't come out until 72
And the previous model consul's where different shape rear end and they where Also a a conversion by abbot's of Farnham
Ford didn't make a consul estate until the launch of the mk1 Granada
You could get a MK1 cortina badged as a consul
They did make an estate version in house as a factory estate
But that would Also be misleading
Not the back end on that mercedes anyway
137 miles an hour,
Marvelous car. Could today’s Mercedes build something like this today? I think they’re capable, but there’s not a chance in hell the bean counters would let them do it.
I don't think they could. If it was built to meet all the safety and emissions standards it wouldn't look like this. It would be a blob like everything we have now.
Anybody that thinks that is the fastest station wagon in the world is guidable.
It may not be now, but he's saying it was the fastest SW when it came out.
The rear estate portion looks slapped on to a 300. Does not fit the body lines correctly, looks fragmented
That's £202,035.00 in today money before the conversion.
What a beauty.
Thanks for watching
Who cares where the parts came from? The car exists
Is that a maxi upper tailgate
It’s completely bespoke apparently
I think the maxi tailgate was on a BMW shooting brake I think. This car has a Ford granada tail gate.
Not hydraulic suspension, air.....
My bad!
So they put all that engineering into converting it to a station wagon, but didn't rip out the automatic transmission and replaced it with a manual one. Boy does that irritate me!
So it's an "300 SET 6.3"?
It's a W109, not a W108.
Thanks!
Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge faster?
How much now?
Did he mention Sophia Loren and George Harrison? Did he?
Hybrid riders be like what’s new about all that kit. We have had it years
So they totally ruined one of the rarest Mercedes Benz cars in the world. Why not Ferrari 250 GTO?
The funerary car
Powerful, ugly as hell, but that’s where the comparison with a Dyson vacuum ends.
So at least it doesn’t suck…
Twin pipe 😂
Why do you look at the camera when you're driving 😱
To look into your soul
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Those rear windows are horrible. If they’d tried to charge me a markup of 70% over list price for that I’d have laughed my head off.
The people who paid for these had so much money they didn't care.
It's a different world with rich people.
@@chrishart8548 Indeed. Today’s perfect example of utmost tastelessness would be the Rolls-Royce “Cullinan”. A very sad insult to the original diamond …
Bit of an abortion of a build really.
Pakistani taxi 😂😂😂