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IT'S A CLASSIC; PRESERVING, PROMOTING AND PEDDLING GREAT BENZES.(Revs)
Byline: Mark Vaughn
This is far beyond certified pre-owned.
The cars in the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center in Irvine, California, are not off-lease, three-year-old, executive-driven runners, the kind you might get in a typical certified pre-owned deal. No, these cars go all the way back to the invention of the automobile 120 years ago. That's even farther back than a Kia/Hyundai warranty.
And these cars are for sale.
Some of them are, anyway. Depending on what is on the market at any given time, you could walk into the Center at 9 Whatney Drive (former Saleen world HQ) and see any number of classic Mercedes-Benzes. For our visit, there was a 1934 380 Cabriolet A Kompressor, the original show car from the Geneva motor show that year and a second-place ribbon-holder from Pebble Beach, on consignment for $1.5 million. There was also a 1970 280SL for $79,000. The inventory is all over the Mercedes map.
Our favorite? A 1959 220 SE Ponton, but we also saw a replica of the 1886 Benz Patent Motorcar, a 1912 Benz 14/30, an ultra-cute 1935 130 Heckmotor, the 1938 Maybach SW 38 used in Memoirs of a Geisha, and a number of more modern Mercedes, including several 280SLs, a 6.3, a 600 ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, IT'S A CLASSIC; PRESERVING, PROMOTING AND PEDDLING GREAT BENZES.(Revs)