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1977 Mercedes 450sl
Hit it, Adrian!
Whoa, Dedi, what are you doing here?
Did we run you over?
I have recently been thinking, how nice it would be,
to be born like 30-40 years ago.
It was easier to get a flat,
the fuel was cheaper,
and the food as well.
Those days, men used to dream about big cars,
today we dream about cheap fuel.
Stop being sentimental, would you?
If it took 5 years to save up for a Lada in those socialist days,
for a Mercedes like this you had to wait for an eternity!
The Mercedes 107 series was manufactured between 1971 and 1989.
There were two types available.
The „R” differed from the „C”
that the „R” type was the Cabriolet,
the „C” was the hard top coupe.
There is an 4520 cc engine in it,
with an american 3 speed automatic gearshift.
The American version is different from the European also
because there is a rubber coating on the bumper.
The huge Mercedes symbol and
and those great duble round lights
provide a very strong character to the car.
Now lets see, how we accelerate to 100 km/h.
Go!
We are talking about a 4500 cc V8 engine here.
Well, even between us the consumption is 16-18 liters
which means to refuel refuel and refuel.
It’s chewing our pants off.
It’s a "roadwalker yacht", which is great to tell you.
It wouldnt go alone, I’m trying to turn,
not turning, not yet,
now its turning.
This gearshift is great.
You can go date with it.
I’m sitting in a leather chair,
with leather carpets,
it is comfortable and
the leather smell is coming right to my face,
and we are made of leather too!
Then I touch the dashboard,
and I go, uhh,
stop, this is plastic!
Why are you guys putting stuff like this in it???
There is a...
do you know what this is?
A fly forcep, to avoid flies.
Actually, it is a mosquito forcep, you know,
we go to the lake Balaton(Hungary) with this on summers.
The mosquitos come this way and
and bite your neck,
but to avoid it, you have a fly-mosquito forcep here,
it goes up, and they don’t bite you.
We now can nicely travel in our 4500 cc,
V8 luxury car with its leather chairs,
and pretend like we are cool.
Hi, how are you?
What’s going on with Pedro Dedi?
I guess he is coming.
Well, let me see.
There you go, this engine is full of smart, german solutions.
If you look at the valve cover
you can even see the firing order.
It’s on it.
The parts are made of heavy stuff,
in the spirit of durability and eternity.
This is a V8.
A german V8.
You can’t see it, but below the air filter is
the K-jetronic which was the milestone of Bosch.
It is the beginning of the injectors,
before this they only had mechanical injection that
they inherited from the Messerschmitt’s.
This is the first truly mass-produced fuel injection system.
Its hard and expensive to fix,
but it’s a good construction.
Mercedes used it for a long while,
perhaps for a bit too long.
It is not the drift kind of V8,
t’s the „you go 160 km/h and
it’s not dancing-shaking under you.
There was no lambda sonda,
lambda sign, catalyst...
The responsiveness was also much more direct.
You push it and goes.
Kids, it is a Mercedes engine.
The a/c was not embarassed if you drove uphill,
that is for sure.
It is ensured, the German way,
that I can tell you.
It is part of the conveniece that
the car is not exerting itself while driving.
It was true, and it is still.
Now guys, we need an ending phrase, right?
Ich möchte eine Mercedes Benz.
No, no, something to end the movie with.
This is a Mercedes.
Ah, sorry!