1967 Mercedes-Benz 230 Fintail Is Junkyard Treasure
A very solid example of the
Heckflosse Mercedes-Benz sedan in a Colorado car graveyard. Murilee Martin
A few months back, we admired a handsome Kienzle-VDO analog dashboard clock extracted from a discarded 1967 Mercedes-Benz 230, and now it s time to take a more detailed look at that car. It showed up in a Denver-area self-service yard with a very nice interior and not-s0-rusty body; if W110 Heckflosse sedans were worth big money today, it would never have met such a fate. Murilee Martin
The 230 sold for $4,280 new in 1967, about $33,875 in 2020 dollars. For that money, you got a 2,750-pound sedan with 118 horsepower and a four-on-the-floor manual transmission… that was one of the highest-quality cars available in the world at that time. Detroit would sell you a
Motor1.com s 3rd Automotive Festivus Airing Of Grievances ++ We gotta lotta problems with you people! And now, you re gonna hear about it!
Can you feel it in the air? It s the holiday season and joyous times with friends and family are here. Or rather, they
would be if this wasn t 2020 and the world wasn t a coronavirus dumpster fire. Yes, it hasn t been the best year, but before we shuffle 2020 out the door like a drunk, illiterate squatter claiming to own your sofa, there s some unfinished business that requires discussion. Yes, it s Festivus time.
Before you can really get happy about the holidays, you have to get a little angry. Odds are you re already a bit angry, especially if you spent hours trying to get your 10-year-old collection of lighted reindeer lawn sculptures to work. Festivus falls on December 23, and while the secular holiday actually had its beginnings in the 1960s, it was forever immortalized in 1997 thanks to e