If this isn’t peak Bracq Friday material, nothing is. Offered here is a 1973 Mercedes-Benz 280SE 4.5, one of Paul Bracq’s finest square-edged sedans and a true California one-owner survivor. The clear coat has faded on the horizontal surfaces, but the body beneath is straight, rust-free, and untouched by bondo. The 4.5 V8 runs strong […]
The Paul Bracq styled W108 generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class is one of the better ways to get into a vintage sedan for a semi-daily driver. The performance is acceptable, ride is comfortable, build quality is exemplary, but most importantly — drive one and you’ll look like a king. This next example isn’t the most preserved or […]
The Mercedes-Benz W108 chassis has a special place here at Daily Turismo; some might say we have a soft spot for this car, or just generally a soft spot in our heads.We featured a full market update on the MB 280SE 4.5 back in February of this year, so if you were paying attention you […]
A few weeks ago we received an email from the buyer of the Rags To Riches W108 280SE 4.5 (the story was also syndicated on the front page of Jalopnik.com via DT’s kinja page and achieved about 5,000 pageviews) and Shawn M reports that the Benz has arrived, in his words: Of course. As would […]
Two seller submissions in one week? Conspiracy! Outrage! Okay, settle down, drop the pitchforks; we don’t get seller submissions very often, probably because sellers are afraid we are going to say nasty things about their car and generally be negative. So we won’t say that this car is slow, gets horrible gas mileage and is […]