Outstanding 350SEL

[ronw123w124]

While we are on the weird options lottery, my 79 280sel has electric sunroof, cruise control, a/c etc, but no first aid kit.  Not missing.  Never fitted. A metal plate covers the place where it should be.  Clearly the first owner thought he would never get hurt.

And I thought the first aid kit is standard on all Mercedes cars.

[ptashek]

Now a Mercedes with a green interior is something that just I cannot live with (sorry Ptashek).

No need to be, it's a terrible combo by modern standards.
But the gold-on-moss-green (which has a fairly yellow hue) makes my car pretty unique, and it's so 1970s acid-trip-like it's hard to beat

[floyd111]

That last post should be in the Options-Monty section, as far as I am concerned. Really news to me! Can anyone concur? A metal plate and no First aid kit, fitted ex. factory?

[karmann_20v]

While we are on the weird options lottery, my 79 280sel has electric sunroof, cruise control, a/c etc, but no first aid kit.  Not missing.  Never fitted. A metal plate covers the place where it should be.  Clearly the first owner thought he would never get hurt.

And I thought the first aid kit is standard on all Mercedes cars.

My 79 Canadian 450SEL has the plain rear parcel shelf, missing the kit compartment and I'm pretty sure the 77 US Spec does too.

[wbrian63]

"I think" in the era we're dealing with that most US-delivered cars were shipped sans-first-aid kit.

For sure, US-delivered W116, W126, W140 and W220 models came without the warning triangle attached to the trunk lid. Also - no cars were delivered with fire extinguishers.

I think it has something to do with tort laws here in the US. As explained to me, if a manufacturer provides a first-aid kit in the car, if it fails to provide first-aid when needed, then the manufacturer is legally liable. Same deal with the warning triangle - if a driver placed it on the side of the road while changing a tire and somehow injury occurred, they could possibly sue the manufacturer.

Sad...

[marku]

Quite a few opinions. I think that you can guarantee that everything is perfect and original if MB Classic has done it. I have noticed for sometime now that they have been quietly promoting the W116 as the next Classic. They were quoting up to 20K for a good W116 with no work required some time ago so I would think that as they are selling it their asking price is going to be substantially higher. Maybe they are testing the market? I like the blue much better than my Bamboo interior although it goes well with the green body and velour was always the more expensive option. Take the 600 the front was often leather, for the chauffeur, and the rear velour.

[ptashek]

velour was always the more expensive option

It was second most expensive after leather.
What's interesting, the last price list to feature the W116 (list 28, from 09/1979) has no velours as an option at all.

List 27 (07/1979) shows the following:
Fabric: standard / MB-Tex: +197.75 DM / Velours: +1559.40 DM / Leather: +1841.90 DM

(*) based on data from http://www.w123-hannover.de/html/npr_startseite.html, and it might not have applied to all markets equally.

[s class]

velour was always the more expensive option

It was second most expensive after leather.
What's interesting, the last price list to feature the W116 (list 28, from 09/1979) has no velours as an option at all.

List 27 (07/1979) shows the following:
Fabric: standard / MB-Tex: +197.75 DM / Velours: +1559.40 DM / Leather: +1841.90 DM

(*) based on data from http://www.w123-hannover.de/html/npr_startseite.html, and it might not have applied to all markets equally.

I think that is market dependant. 

[ptashek]

I've noticed we've probably seen this 350SEL before:
http://forum.w116.org/auto-torque/stuttgart-classic-centre-and-mb-museum-with-116s/msg114235/#msg114235

Same car, no? Looks like they sat on it for quite some time now.

[ronw123w124]

velour was always the more expensive option

It was second most expensive after leather.
What's interesting, the last price list to feature the W116 (list 28, from 09/1979) has no velours as an option at all.

List 27 (07/1979) shows the following:
Fabric: standard / MB-Tex: +197.75 DM / Velours: +1559.40 DM / Leather: +1841.90 DM

(*) based on data from http://www.w123-hannover.de/html/npr_startseite.html, and it might not have applied to all markets equally.

If I had it my way, I would prefer MB Tex over anything else.

[marku]

Don't think I specifically mentioned leather in comparison just that it was more expensive than standard. I think that today velour is thought to be the cheaper option generally when in older and not necessarily MB cars it was the first choice for the rear seats.