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Mercedes Benz 300 D
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The
breakaway atmosphere in post-war Germany: Also the automobile industrie
is back in action and picked up on its past performance from pre-war
years. At the IAA in Frankfurt, in April 1951 Daimler-Benz presents the
type 300 d as the biggest and at that time fastest serial manufactured
car of German production. Within a very short time this model is the
preference vehicle for prominent personalities of politics, commerce
and cinema.
The federal president Theodor Heuss and
minister for economic affairs Ludwig Erhard are driven in the 300er.
But the model became famous as the “Adenauer
Mercedes”, then the first
federal chancellor emphasised the importance of only being driven in
the 300er.
In August 1957 the Mercedes-Benz type 300 was
presented as a modernised version: the 300 d, which became available as
a cabriolet D in July 1958. Only 65 units of them were ever built, at
the proud price for those times of 37.000,– DM.
The appearance of
the 300 d, cabriolet D with its ponton shaped contours is simple and
yet impressively elegant. Conspicuous is the four door bodywork, the
panorama rear window and the spacious trunk. |
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Technical data of the original vehicle:
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6-cylinder in-line-engine, with 160 hp at 5.300 rpm • Top
speed: 165
km/h • Fuel supply: Suction pipe fuel injection with a Bosch
injection
pump • Serially produced with a 3-speed automatic transmission
with the
selector lever on the steering column |
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