[harit]

Originally Posted by speedy

Harit uncle the car you talk off has come to our place for restoration.

I am aware, my post was before that event.
So good luck to your restoration and the owner.
Remember that the task is not easy, the black car was also lying at your place and moved on to Chennai. I understand that finally she was done over there. It is really a tough task, the black car was earlier in United Motors and they also did not get the car up.
So, good luck. Will you take us for a drive when she is restored?

[speedy]

Originally Posted by harit

I am aware, my post was before that event.
So good luck to your restoration and the owner.
Remember that the task is not easy, the black car was also lying at your place and moved on to Chennai. I understand that finally she was done over there. It is really a tough task, the black car was earlier in United Motors and they also did not get the car up.
So, good luck. Will you take us for a drive when she is restored?

I just mentioned it, as it was coincidence that you mentioned of this car and it had come to our place. I do not think there would be another 600 with the same issue. I was in no way trying to test your knowledge or awareness of where cars go in India. Nothing gets hidden from you. Sorry if i offended you by mentioning of this 600.
I am not aware of another 600 if that is what you are talking off at our place. This is the first one. The other black car (250/280) i think with air suspension was only to be parked not worked upon by us. I agree it is tough but not immpossible uncle,5 yrs standing at one place and getting eaten away by water does take its toll on a car.
You would have to ask the owner to take you or anyone else for a drive as i am not in liberty to do so .

[wartikars]

Apart from governments and the Pope, famous owners of the 600 include celebrities such as Coco Chanel, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jay Kay, Aristotle Onassis, Jack Nicholson, Simon Spies, Bob Jane, Frank Packer, Elvis Presley, Rowan Atkinson and Jeremy Clarkson, Communist leaders include Nicolae Ceauşescu, Josip Broz-Tito, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Leonid Brezhnev,, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il also owns landauet (as seen on a parade in Pyongyang with Chinese prime minister, Oct. 2009) and religious leader Guru Maharaj Ji. African revolutionaries Idi Amin Dada, Jomo Kenyatta and the former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos had four 600s including a Landaulet, a 1981 bulletproof and a six-door version.[citation needed]
Iran royal court and Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi owned multiple 600 models that were used for official and personal use of the late Shah and his court. Some of them were sold after the 1978 islamic revolution and about a dozen of them are in the National Car Museum of Iran in Karaj
Other notable owners include Saddam Hussein, F W Klerk.
Mao Zedong in fact never owned a 600, but rather the Russian made ZIS-110 (as gifts given by Joseph Stalin) and latter the Chinese made FAW Hongqi CA72 and armored CA722. However, former Foreign Minister Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, wife of the first Chinese Primier Zhou Enlai - Deng Yingchao, and the former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk when he fled to Beijing after Cambodian coup of 1970 all used 600.


The model came in two main variants:

• Short wheelbase
  4-door sedan, similar to a modern S600 sedan in layout.
  4-door sedan, but with a power divider window separating the front seats from the rear bench seat.
• Long wheelbase chassis Pullman
  4-door limousine, featuring additional two rear-facing seats behind the driver compartment which was separated by a power divider window (in all but three built)
  6-door limousine, with two forward facing jump seats stationed at the additional middle two doors and a rear bench seat.

Source: Wikipedia

If I am able to buy one I will surely have it in my collection.

[harit]

Originally Posted by wartikars

Iran royal court and Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi owned multiple 600 models that were used for official and personal use of the late Shah and his court. Some of them were sold after the 1978 islamic revolution and about a dozen of them are in the National Car Museum of Iran in Karaj
Other notable owners include Saddam Hussein, F W Klerk.
Mao Zedong in fact never owned a 600, but rather the Russian made ZIS-110 (as gifts given by Joseph Stalin) and latter the Chinese made FAW Hongqi CA72 and armored CA722. However, former Foreign Minister Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, wife of the first Chinese Primier Zhou Enlai - Deng Yingchao, and the former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk when he fled to Beijing after Cambodian coup of 1970 all used 600.

The second 600 in India is a short wheel base which belonged to the Shah of Iran. The Iranians had sent that car to India as an Embassy car and sold her to STC. From STC she went to a collector who kept her in a garage for repairs, then she moved to another collector who is having her worked on in Mumbai. Wonder how far she has reached.
The Chinese had 6 or so Mercedes 600's, one ended up in an automobile factory to see if they could copy some features. It was too complicated, when china started opening up a German found this car in that factory and managed to take her home.

Cheers harit

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by harit

The second 600 in India is a short wheel base which belonged to the Shah of Iran. The Iranians had sent that car to India as an Embassy car and sold her to STC. From STC she went to a collector who kept her in a garage for repairs, then she moved to another collector who is having her worked on in Mumbai. Wonder how far she has reached.
The Chinese had 6 or so Mercedes 600's, one ended up in an automobile factory to see if they could copy some features. It was too complicated, when china started opening up a German found this car in that factory and managed to take her home.

Cheers harit

That's just so typical. Haha.

Btw, what is "STC"?

[canonball]

State Trading Corporation