[W126 Coupe] Hatch and Sons is back!

[Dawid Loubser]

I popped by my Mercedes Mechanic last week, and there was a truly  
beautiful black 6.3 being worked on, of course much higher mileage,  
but visually comaprable to this one Hatch & Sons has. I came so close  
to buying one last year, which needed very little work. A real  
monster of a car, you can feel and hear that there is a 6.3 under the  
bonnet every step of the way, yet a phenomenally smooth ride with the  
air suspension. The handling ain't great though (suspension is quite  
slow to respond to e.g. sharp curves) and very costly to maintain.
A 560SEC leaves a 6.3 in the dust at higher speed though, but  
nevertheless the 6.3 is one of the most impressive cars ever,  
especially considering it was build in 1967. Another very interesting  
car standing at Attie's (being worked on) is the ex-premier of  
Zimbabwe's Mercedes "Grosser" 600 SWB. Still totally original (but I  
think it needs a repaint to look perfect again). The car is for sale,  
can you believe it... Now that I wouldn't mind, for grand sunday  
drives :-)

Rolls or Bentley has never built the quality evident on the 600. It's  
all a bit over-the-top, but very, very nice.

Dawid


On 30 Aug 2006, at 8:32 vm., Shayegan, Richard wrote:

> I know we have some list members familiar with Hatch and Sons  
> (www.hatchandsons.com). It was a sad day when they closed up and  
> sold to Heritage Motorworks. Well it looks like the guys at  
> Heritage were telling the truth when they said Hatch would be  
> reopening on a smaller scale. My God, somebody buy this and then  
> sell it to me one day http://www.hatchandsons.com/pages/sales/ 
> mercedes_benz/STK%23JB19
>
> Richard
>
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