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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / February 2005What Type of Mercedes is this? Never seen one....
I have the opportunity to buy this MB, and am considering doing so only because I cannot identify it. Exceptionally similar in body design to similar year VW busses. Any ideas at all? http://www.inet-lender.com/mercedes >I have the opportunity to buy this MB, and am considering doing so only >because I cannot identify it. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://www.inet-lender.com/mercedes looks like an old Hanomag to me Greetings from the Netherlands Theo > I have the opportunity to buy this MB, and am considering doing so only > because I cannot identify it. > Exceptionally similar in body design to similar year VW busses. > Any ideas at all? > http://www.inet-lender.com/mercedes That is a Tempo Matador E (1963-1967) - an early predecessor of the Mercedes (Dodge/Freightliner) Sprinter. It was built in Hamburg, Germany from 1963 to 1965 as Tempo Matador E, since 1966 Hanomag had the say so the name changed to Hanomag Matador E. In 1967 the much-renewed Matador was labelled Hanomag-Henschel F20 to F35, depending on the weight-class. In 1969 Mercedes bought 51 percent of Hanomag-Henschel and the cars were labelled as Mercedes, first as F20 to F35, later 207/307/206D/307D as then an option was the 200D diesel engine from /8 Some photos and much German text at <http://www.tempo-dienst.de/neu/Geschichte/history/scheinwerfer2-75.htm> Juergen Juergen . schrieb: > That is a Tempo Matador E (1963-1967) - an early > predecessor of the Mercedes (Dodge/Freightliner) Sprinter. But it seems to me that this particular car was never delivered from factory with a star. I suppose the star was installed later by one of the owners of the car. If I were the original poster, I would not buy this car, because the condition is too bad to rebuild and many parts are missing (almost half of the engine) Frank -- please replace spam-muelleimer with fk-newsgroups for e-mail contact Citroen - Made in Trance > Juergen . schrieb: > > That is a Tempo Matador E (1963-1967) - an early > > predecessor of the Mercedes (Dodge/Freightliner) Sprinter. > But it seems to me that this particular car was never delivered from > factory with a star. I suppose the star was installed later by one of Exactly, the Matador E was only delivered as Tempo Matador E and Hanomag Matador E. The successor of the Matador E was later delivered with the star on the front, too. > the owners of the car. If I were the original poster, I would not buy > this car, because the condition is too bad to rebuild and many parts are > missing (almost half of the engine) The engone is no problem at all, it is a wide-spread (in the UK) Austin gasoline engine (54 PS, 1600 ccm, from Austin 50 IIRC), that should really be no problem. But the rust IS a problem, every rotten part has to be rebuild by hand, that is time-consuming and I think the missing bumpers could be a problem, too. Juergen From even before posting here, I thought that the star on front did not look right.. Fantastic help, people, thank you. I already backed out of the transaction. >> Juergen . schrieb: >> > That is a Tempo Matador E (1963-1967) - an early [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Juergen > From even before posting here, I thought that the star on front did not look > right.. > Fantastic help, people, thank you. I already backed out of the transaction. Backing out may have been a mistake. Do you have dogs? 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FOUR MORE YEARS to a 10 trillion dollar national debt! ( $10,000,000,000,000.00 )! FOUR MORE YEARS until 20% of the federal budget is interest payments on the debt! . Were you ever serious? :-) DAS For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- > From even before posting here, I thought that the star on front did not > look right.. > > Fantastic help, people, thank you. I already backed out of the > transaction. [...] It is a VW bus! P. >I have the opportunity to buy this MB, and am considering doing so only >because I cannot identify it. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://www.inet-lender.com/mercedes > It is a VW bus! P. No, Its not, but the body design sure is similar "iNet" <thecowsays@moo.com> haute in die Tasten: > No, Its not, but the body design sure is similar VW Busses had a rear mounted engine until the early 90's Frank Signatureplease replace spam-muelleimer with fk-newsgroups for e-mail contact Citroen - Made in Trance |
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