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Nice pics!

M

Those pics go with this story from MB world.... really nice, a bit old, but thats what makes it a classic.




Stuttgart, Sep 05, 2002
The year 2000 marked the realization of a great idea: the Mercedes-Benz Classic Days were born, creating an international platform for all classic car activities of the Stuttgart-based global brand. This classic car convention, a unique event in this format, will be staged for the third time in 2002.

Mercedes-Benz Classic Car Club International (MBCCCI) expects more than 400 participants from over 26 brand clubs from all over the world. Following the first convention in Salzburg and the double event in Colmar and Merano, the automotive witnesses to bygone ages will assemble this year in what is called the small middle kingdom: the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

26 Mercedes-Benz clubs and 200 classic cars experience automotive history

From September 9 to 15, 2002, the great small country between France, Belgium and Germany will provide the backdrop for a cross-section of automotive history only the inventor of the automobile, Mercedes-Benz, can offer.

The cars will be sporting number plates from Australia, Japan, the USA and many European countries and include supercharged giants from the twenties, sporty S, SS and SSK racing cars as well as the more modest but universally usable 170 V of the thirties. The lineup will equally include models which are less well known today, for instance the 230, 290 and 320. And then there’ll be the culmination of pre-war development, the supercharged 500 K and 540 K. These cars will be joined by models from the economic miracle era, ranging from the 170 V through to the dream of all car buffs, the 300 SL Gullwing. Plus elegant coupes, sports cars, noble limousines and everyday cars from the sixties through to the eighties.

All of them are witnesses to their respective day and age and cultural assets which come alive again for all to see for a few valuable days.

The oldest car will, incidentally, be a 10/20 hp model of 1912.

Legends meet legends

Mercedes-Benz wouldn’t be Mercedes-Benz if it weren’t ensured that competition was given due scope in the sporting/tourist program. Regularity tests will for instance be organized on the Goodyear test track on September 10 and 11. Racing and rally aces of bygone days will demonstrate their skills once again, among them Hans Herrmann, Jochen Mass and John Surtees and Bernd Mayländer, DTM-plus-F1-safety-car driver. Once again, the winning cars of bygone days will roar past and drift through the bends on Goodyear's high-speed track – for instance the rally versions of the 230 SL Pagoda and the 300 SE sedan, the Sauber-Mercedes C 11 and some of the greatest rarities from the Mercedes-Benz museum’s collection.





Routing

Two fundamentally different natural landscapes will both fascinate and challenge the participants in the Classic Days 2002. The rally routes on September 12 and 13 will take the drivers through the fertile, castle-studded Gutland (literally: Good Land) with its deeply carved-out river valleys and, contrasting with this scenery, through the densely forested Oesling region in the north, the part of the Ardennes within Luxembourg's borders. Deep, shadowy forest valleys alternating with bizarre rock formations, plateaus, charming old villages and incomparable clear views will be awaiting the drivers and their classic cars.

The two routes, which have to be covered alternately, continue a tradition that is still fairly young, namely the tradition of an international meeting in a new way, characterized by historical awareness and the desire for the unknown.

Concours d'Elégance, the festive highlight

Every event has its highlight. The Concours d'Elégance on Place Guillaume in the center of the city of Luxembourg on Saturday afternoon, September 14, provides the participants with the opportunity of presenting the results of years of laborious restoration work to interested spectators. The latter will also elect the most beautiful models from the participating cars, representing the traditional development history of Mercedes-Benz brand and its predecessors.

A new dimension of club appearance

The Mercedes-Benz clubs with more than 130,000 members are distributed all over the world. They share enthusiasm for the brand, delight in classic cars and the anticipation of seeing each other again at major events like these, to exchange experience and talk about their "hobby without frontiers". In this way, they keep the brand alive and write their own chapter of history.