Mercedes Benz W100 (600) Limousine B+B
Mercedes Benz W100 (600) Limousine B+B
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wow, there's something I've never seen before. Thanks for the pics, any info to go along with it?
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ATHEIST and damn proud of it.
it is probably a toy, there is a bar on the roof to pick up the car....
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What a way to destroy a 600 Grosser...
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
Looks like a cross breed between a merc and a rolls…just look at the wheel arch.
In the first pic is written, that it is custom made by "Buschmann", does anybody know if it is Bodo Buschmann, who later founded Brabus?
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Oh...I thought maybe B+B stood for Bed and Breakfast
It´s very nice!! Do you have more photos of the this car?
Regards!!
not only one! a jackpot! and whit 'info'...
"November 1980, Germany. A wealthy customer from an exotic country comes to the BB Auto Exlusive tuning-company. He’s looking for a car, but not just a car….
The car had to be a one-off and should be distinctively look like one. The car was to be converted in 1930’s style and on both sides a footboard had to be placed which was able to carry the weight of a grown man. Money was not an issue.
The car used was a brand new 1980 W100 Mercedes 600, one of the final cars made of this type. The car was to be converted in four months time.
The owner of the car wanted the car to be painted in signal red with white dots the size of pencil points. Rainer Buchmann, the owner of BB Auto Exclusiv, managed to persuade the man forget about this crazy paintjob and paint the car a more decent dark-red.
On both sides of the car footboards were installed so bodyguards could ride on the outside of the car. Because the footboards were protruding 30cm from the car, Buchmann had to find a way to elegantly disguise them. The solution was found in adding new fenders which gave the car that distinctive old-skool look. A bit like the cars made by Clenet, Panther and Excalibur.
With these new fenders and footboards the car was a wide as a lorry. On top of that Buchmann removed the front axle and placed them even further to the front, thus increasing the wheelbase by 70cm. The front- and rear axles were not the standard ones, but completely new ones as was the stearing-system and the engine-compartment. All this was achieved with some difficulties along the way.
The interior of this very special 600 remained virtually unharmed. Not that it was anything of a poor-man’s interior, because the standard interior of the 600 was already almost the best you could get.
Officially a price of the car was never published but it was rumored to be about 350.000 DM, which was about the same as the SGS Royale. It’s also unknown who ordered this car. All we know he already had a collection of 90 cars and this Mercedes 600 was one of nine of the same type……..Those Crazy 80s!!!"
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"I don't take any photo, just collect in all the web and share"
... and the lasts!
"I don't take any photo, just collect in all the web and share"
The car was made by B&B in Germany, the company, which also made big interior tuning in some Porsches and VW Golfs (mainly the first car-computer-things). In that company worked Eberhard Schulz, who designed the B&B CW311 with an engine from Mercedes-Benz. That car became the Isdera Imperator 108i and was a little success. 30 cars were made, which isn't that bad for a very small company in the 70s, coming from nowhere, bringing out their first production car (first Isdera was the unique Erator, which still exists today).
WRC - That's motorsport!
"If you can see the tree you are about to hit, it is called 'understeering'. If you can only hear and feel it, it was 'oversteering'."
Walter Röhrl
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