[W126 Coupe] Not again !!

[millerlh at earthlink.net]

Hi John:

Interesting that you took a car apart to see how it was constructed.

A bit of useless information from a deep recess in my brain!

Some time ago I stopped to ask directions at a local GMC truck (lorry to you) dealer in my 1990 560 SEC. The door burst open and a salesman came rapidly out and over to say hello, not to try and sell me anything but because he told me he had been a MB salesman in the late 80s and early 90s and this had been his favorite model, by far.

He told me that when the SEC either first came out, or when there were some technical improvements in the car, he and the other MB salesmen were shown a "film" (video presentation?) of the car which included an x-ray like view of the car showing the internal structure, hidden safety features, etc. He then proceeded to point out where in the car there were some concealed structural components that permitted the large door to be hinged the way it is, and began pointing to several hand made components (at which time I stopped him and got my directions, because I was late anyway).

Just thought you might be interested, in case you want to try to look up the item..

Lou Miller 

PS By the way, maybe these cars have a built in magnet for other vehicles as an unannounced accessory. I, too, have been the victim of two minor taps while standing still in traffic, both of which were easily fixable but most distressing at the time. Once I was in a line of 10 cars stopped at a light when someone 5 cars behind me managed to sideswipe a large American car somehow, send it across the road, off a curb, and them caroming back across the road into the left rear quarter. Minor damage, much distress as it was the 2nd drive in the car. The other was a lady who couldn't find her shoe on the floor and was looking for it when she realized she was actually moving and the line I was at the end of was not. Fortunately, the only damage was a couple of small marks on the surface of the rear bumper molding, that were repaired (for $663.00) of her insurance company's money).  


----- Original Message ----- 
From: John Poole 
To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com
Sent: 1/21/2009 4:06:03 PM 
Subject: [W126 Coupe] Not again !!


Hi everyone,
Stopped at a traffic light today, the clown behind me did`nt ! As one would expect, the Kia was approx two feet shorter after the coming together and in lots of little pieces all over the place, my SEC had a slightly remodelled bumper and a couple of small dents in the rear panel, problems grew on opening the boot (trunk) which fouled the rear windscreen trim and revealed my spare wheel sitting approx six inches higher than usual ! I`ll have to take the car for a repair estimate tomorrow or friday, however as big, old V8s are now officially all worth 38p ( 52 cents US ), I`m pretty sure she`ll be written off. I`m beginning to see a slightly worrying pattern emerging vis my ownership of Mercs :

 August 2001- Drove my first SEC (420) into a tree, tree survived, car did`nt, I was fine.
September 11 2001- bought my second SEC, while driving it home "we interrupt this program with terrible news from NY", never really liked the car after that.
Mid 2003- bought third SEC (really liked that one :-)
Mid 2004- bought fourth SEC to take to pieces (to see how they`re put together)
Mid 2004- exchanged SEC#2 with Chaz Wells for a purple 500SL R129 (quite liked that)
2005-2006- supercharged, painted, birds-eye mapled etc. etc. SEC#3 (now love it :-)
May 2007- SL crashed into by a Vauxhall (GM) and written off, (later spotted on Ebay !)
Jan 2009- SEC#3 crashed into by a nasty, feeble, inadequate Kia of all things !!

It seems all the ones I like get destroyed :-(
Perhaps it`s time for me to buy myself a Volvo in their most appealing shade of babyshit beige ?

Yours in great grumpiness,
John    
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