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Month: January 2011
A Rose By Any Name, Revised
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This is an update to a post made back in 2009. While reading the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend I saw an article that reminded me of this car. It is in a Sunday section called “My Ride” and I read it every weekend. Anyway, this weeks story was about a person who bought a 1975 Rolls Royce and had it overheat on the ride home. In reviewing this post, I see that I wrongly classified the year of this model. This actually looks like a 1962 Silver Clod Salon car.
Rolls Royce is a very special car. It looks so elegant and timeless and is shown here in my neighborhood, just parked at the local grocery store. I think this car is a late 1980 or so, but this is just a guess.
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© Fred Winograd copyright 2009, 2011
1953-1957 Mercedes Sedan
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Less than a decade after WWII, Mercedes introduced the model 180 sedan. This was a precursor to the “C” class introduced in the early 1980s. This particular car was in exceptional shape and had a “Club” on the steering wheel to prevent theft.
The Ponton models were replaced by the W110 “Fintail” models beginning in 1961. The 180 was the first ‘small’ Mercedes, it can be thought as the C-class of that era. Mercedes-Benz would return to this market segment in 1982 with the 190E. The W121 190 was the E-class of the time. All the ‘Ponton’ generation models looked very similar in appearance, one could not clearly identify even a 220SE from a 180, only after seeing its larger size and chrome touches was it possible to identify it as a different model. This was the only generation in which all models looked incredibly similar, though the 300 was exclusive.
The form and body of the car changed little during its production run. However, in 1957, a year after the introduction of the 190 sedan the Mercedes star at the front of the car was made detachable: reports at the time indicated that this was either to pander to the requirements of certain export markets, notably Switzerland or to reduce the risk of pedestrian injury in the event of an accident.
© Fred Winograd copyright 2010