Off topic -- Mercedes woodie

[Kenneth Gear]

Check out this unique fintail...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCEDES-BENZ-190-DC-WORLDWIDE-UNIQUE-WOOD-VENEERED_W0QQitemZ130039371911QQihZ003QQcategoryZ6328QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ken G
1971 280 SL
Silver/red

[waltklatt]

Yikes, not sure of the thickness of the wood.  Looks a bit funny at the trunk where the map of the world is located.  Looks like a large sticker and it got rippled.
No closeup shots of the wood veneer anywhere.
Walter Klatt
1967 220SL-diesel

[keesing]

Unique... is an understatement! Hard to fathom the amount of tedius work that wen into the piece of art! Gee and I thought my Yellow 280SL turned heads and got the looks and comments.[:p]

1967 250SL Signal Red
1969 280SL "Tweety Bird Yellow"
1987 260E Charcoal

[Nate]

Now we know why it takes months if not years to get a car in and out of a body shop for a respray, or maybe they did it in 2 weeks with cheap wallpaper...

[Cees Klumper]

This one is of particular interest to me because one of my other hobbies is ... wood veneering! This guy took it too far though. It looks like he did it very well, a real craftsman. The buyer of this car better keep his number, or not drive the car, because what would you do if you ever got into an accident.

A couple of years ago there was a Jaguar MK2 that was painted by a famous Dutch artist (Herman Brood, who has since passed on) and the car was offered for sale for a loooong time without any takers. It disappeared from sight and I often wondered who would be interested in such a car.

All that said, my wife is an artist and I have asked her to paint either a Pagoda hood or a trunk lid for me, once I get around to buying a good used one ... it may be another couple of years, but I will be posting pictures of the outcome of that idea ...

Also, I experimented with gold leafing a couple of years ago (I make the frames for my wife's paintings, and did one in gold leaf) and because this is not so difficult to do, I contemplated gold-leafing a Pagoda completely once. Not one of my better ideas.

Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

[Chad]

For 1700 hrs, he might have spent 17 of them on the engine bay. It looks hideous - but not as bad as the rest of the car.

1967 230SL (Manual, rustless driver)

[Bob G]

Back in 1962 my mother had a new Ford Falcon with the simulated wood and molding on the side. White paint two tone interior. I saw the same Ford Falcon wagon again for sale at the Redondo Beach Concours last year, howerver it was slightly modified and needed work $10,000 would buy it but it was more than ever just a walk down memory lane.
I dought Mercedes-Benz in the early 1960 choose to go that route. their wagon made by an indepent company were for Europena consumption and the first one I ever saw was in 1970 in San Degio in a parking lot. It was not till my response from mMercedes-Benz  from a letter I wrote them inquiring about this wagon that I learned it was not a USA imported vehical. Sad can you amagine the competition they could of created back then.
Enough rambelling now back to the woodie on ebay it look like a lot one of thoses flashly plad jackets Montie Hall wears on the 1970s show let make a deal.
Bob Geco

[peterm]

Isn't anyone going to comment on the "dark red" pagoda with the weird bumper guuards parked  in the snow in the background?

[rwmastel]

quote:Originally posted by peterm

Isn't anyone going to comment on the "dark red" pagoda with the weird bumper guuards parked  in the snow in the background?

I see a W107 in the second/thrid picture down, as well as a white W107 in the garage.  I don't see a W113?

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[J. Huber]

I think I see a 113 in picture #12. Inside the building. However, couldn't find a dark red one in the snow...

James
63 230SL

[peterm]

that was just a test ....actually my mistake, (note head held humbly down) it was a 107
plm