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Well I take the blame for this little mystery, since I took the picture in Essen and inadvertently included it in the selection for the magazine
Anyway, to help solve it here is a view of the engine bay.
Oh, and by the way, you can see that there was indeed a tiny piece of M-100 fender in the top right of the picture!

OH DEAR!  It was not my intention to be in any way critical.  It is a very pretty photo and as Ant said, you can put what you like on the cover.  The website is lacking interesting input, so I thought I'd put up a topic that might provide some discussion.  Seems I have achieved that, but not as I intended.  MY POST WAS NOT A CRITICISM......sorry that you took it as such, my apologies.

I am familiar with W111 and W112 cars; I still own two.  But I am familiar with RHD cars and there are some differences.  I noted all the points that others have mentioned and also that the horn pad had replaced with the later single ring version.  The binnacle is leather covered.  The tacho is red lined at 6500 suggesting a 6 cylinder motor.  So maybe it is a 280SE.  But my 280SE had a totally different aircon init.  The one in the car looks like the type that they installed in early 600's, before the Gleason changes.  So I remain uncertain as to what I am looking at.

The magazine is beaut. Keep up the good work and if you know what model the car on the cover is, please let me know.
Art

Clayton,

Don't think you can get out of your chains so easily... You've done way too good of a job to be released from indentured servitude so quickly.

:-)

Seriously, all of us appreciate the good work. Also, I promise I will get a couple of articles I'm working on wrapped up, and get them to you for the next edition. Really... Really!

Come up and visit, by the way... I'll make dinner...

Best Regards,
Jim


1979 450SEL 6.9 (Black/Safran)
1987 560SL (Red/Palomino)

Driven with "old man" sheepskin covers!

Clayton the beauty of being editor is you can put a banana on the cover if you choose 
The magazine is exceptional.

300SEL
6.3 #2723, my first classic Benz
W220 S500L 2001
W202 C240 1999

...oh Clayton, please don't be disheartened.

Your Edition was up there with the time honoured best. Oddly enuff, whilst I didn't pick the significance of the non M100 dashboard, feasting upon the visual luxury of that interior was a real treat.
So absorbed was I that I didn't twig to the fact it is nearly for sure a '65? W111/2...coz I'm staring at one right now!!
6500 rpm red line suggests this is an in line 6. M189?

Nice to see the Train spotters come to the fore..they're pretty good eh?
I'll even chime in...it appears the engine is running..500rpm but the oil pressure doesn't look so good?

Keep up the good work mate..................no one is having a poke  ...this is all good stuff.!

Great, I am new to the world of Mercedes and tried my best to continue the M-100 Lodestar tradition. It is clear that I failed. Maybe Art Love can do a better job as editor. Thank you for the opportunity, I will find my interests elsewhere.

Hi Art,

my Eyes caught also immidiatly that that picture was not from a M100-car.

According the right upper corner it is a Coupe model see the mirrored text (backside of the paper).

As far as I know the W112 was never made with a V8-motor ….  Only the W111 got later the V8.

Because the "Defrost"badge on the heater and the imho non-chromed claxonring it is a definitly US-model.

Because the gear-indicator counts a 4 gear indication it can't be a 4.5 liter, which was always combined with a 3gearbox. So it might be a 3.5 ltr at the maximum. 

The KM-clock shoud imho indicate it is a "converted" model ??

I thought someone else might hazard a guess or the editor might enlighten the rest of us......

Wow! Good catch Art;)


Francis E. Abate

I received my copy a couple of days ago; I'm in Australia.  I was intrigued by the cover photo.  Clearly not an M100 vehicle. I am guessing it is a US 4.5L W112 coupe.
Art