<![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> I seriously want to get one of these to replace my Subaru, and daily-drive it. They are just so damn COOL.

Paul Y. can't think of a better, shorter handle

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> That guy probably went through too many hood ornaments in the 80's to get another one. Remember when it was cool to hang a Merc, VW, or even the damn pentastar (even mom's 86 NYer Turbo was a victim) hood ornament around your wanna-be rapper neck?

It was hard enough finding wagon-specific parts for my 63 Chev II Nova back in the day, I can only imagine what it's like to keep up one of these beauties.

Keep this stuff coming, I love "Down the Street!"

Turboner

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> I gotta fix the brakes on my 220D so I can drive it again.

Is anyone else astonished at how cheap 60's and early 70's Benzes are? Why is that?

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> Nice find!

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> I had a '64 220Sb sedan for a bit in the very early '80s. It was good to drive, but the price of parts was stupid.

F'rinstance, it needed a new turn signal flasher. Standard parts-store flashers blew fuses, it had to have the special Bosch flasher, $28 instead of $5.

It needed back brake shoes. The originals were riveted instead of bonded, or the other way 'round, can't remember, but it meant there were no relines; $43.15 per *shoe* instead of $30 per axle.

It finally was going to need transmission work (on a 4-speed auto (from 1964!), and a rebuild was going to cost enough that it would've been cheaper to pay the local hot rod shop to put in a small block Chevy and a GM tranny, build the driveshaft and mounts and stuff, and make it all work. I sold it to somebody dumber than I was.

O'Bunny

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> My dad bought me a 1967 250SE for my first car in the early 90's. It cost $150 bucks and only three of the four brakes worked, he drove it 100 miles to get it home. He let me cruise it around the neighborhood before I was 15, which seems fairly irresponsible in retrospect. The SE was a rarer fuel injected engine model. I sold it to a guy with 250 SE convertible for $750 because he needed the engine.

I used the money to buy a 78 Fiat Spider that was missing second gear. That was a mistake.

BrianWinchell

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> Great car. I love those old Benzes, especially the ones with the single piece European headlights.

One thing about the straight six--it may not have been powerful, but I defy you to break one.

Anyway, great find, Murilee. This is becoming my favorite Jalopnik feature (along with the weekly bickering over whether a car is worhthy of inclusion in a virtual fantasy garage).

MarionCobretti

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> @ZeGerman:
You must be thinking of the "SS" version.
The "Luftvaffe" option gave it another 25 horses.

2trips

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> I'll take one with tinted windows and KGB vanity plates.

ZeGerman

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> 10 years ago I sold my first car: a 1965 220S sedan. For some reason, the vestigial fins on the coupe and convertible are muted-but-cool, whereas on the sedan they were a little out-of-control. Thus, the car did not become a classic, and it sold for [cheap]. I should note that mine not only had some primer, but one of the doors my grandfather had repaired with spackle and bond-o. At least it had the tristar gunsight hood ornament. And the far cooler euro-spec headlamps.

Sounds like you didn't get a look under the hood -- the tiny straight six is positively swallowed by the space in there. As far as I know, the W111 didn;t come in a 6.3...but could have.

this is not mine, but check out those fintails!
[www.motorbase.com]

R-GTI

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> I also dislike the overwrought Benzes of the last decade and a half. The new ones look perfect in an Orange County McMansion driveway. More me, the last honestly engineered and designed Benz would be a 1989 Mercedes E300 - before the chrome, cladding, body color bumpers, and superfluous driver's side power mirror.

apolonio

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> These Benzes are always total class. Wish more cars were like this.

The Thirteenth Sentry

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> Very cool car. My father has a 1964 220b sedan in similar condition. He bought it in '64 as the second owner and it was used as a daily driver by him, my mother or me until 2005. A random odometer failure in the 80's (it has since fixed itself) means we'll never know for sure how many miles it's gone, but I ballpark it at 300k. I love to see another fintail Mercedes still being driven on a daily basis.

InternationalSuperspy

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> I have always thought this generation of MBs to be one of, if not THE best-looking big coupes ever, and I am astounded at how (relatively) inexpensive they are to buy. Nice 3.5s can be had for 35 grand.

PatFromGundo

]]> <![CDATA[1965 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe]]> Super writeup on a great car.

Mercedes wasn't perfect with their engineer-driven car designs (no, you can't have AC and a sunroof, that vould be schtupit!), but they earned their classic-ness. Plus they ran forever. Maybe that's why the new ones aren't tanks?

At least the recent CL500 brings back a taste of the great roofline seen here.

HoubaHouba!

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