I see your white wagon and raise you. The ultimate sleeper wagon.
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and viva le difference!!!




after all you don't want that ice cream cone melting before you get home.

 

I prefer the RS6 Avant. Ride is garbage in the E63 wagon, I've driven one.

 

My first car; I paid $1 for it and sold it for $250. Not the actual car as I discovered I have no pictures of it.

 

I too grew up with station wagons. First one we had was a 72 Torino, then a 73 town & country with a 440 and 727 tranny, then a 78 volare then 2 different K car wagons, then the last one my Dad had was a century wagon. My cousins had a olds vista cruiser wagon with the glass roof that was the bomb.

 

My first car was a '64 Rambler Station Wagon.

 

This was our 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity station wagon we got in 1990. A mid-sized wagon with the base 2.5L “Iron Duke” inline 4 engine with fuel injection. We called ours the “Iron Horse”. Donna drove it for almost ten years and then gave it to our daughter for college. It lasted another 1-1/2 years until she wrecked it in 2001.

 

Not sure I would call anything with AMG and E63 badging a sleeper, especially when it is from a time when AMG really meant something. Did that generation AMG E wagon make it into US showrooms?

 

Well since you are talking about MB, we can transition into this car from the museum since it has a very interesting history.



This 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540K sports tourer was hidden in a garage basement for nearly 60 years in Dresden, Germany to keep the Americans and Soviets from getting it. The rich German bricked up the entrance, filled the driveway with topsoil, and planted a rose garden above it. It only came out hiding after the Berlin Wall came down.

 

Still amazing it survived the firebombing of Dresden. People descended into heavy reinforced basements and such only to be incinerated by the intense heat. The car must have been on the outskirts of the city.

 

Another from the Gilmore collection..





This is another car that is very personal to me. 1963 Chrysler Turbine. Chrysler had been working on this technology for ten years. Imagine this … diesel fuel was the preferred power source, but the car could run on tequila, perfume, peanut oil, home heating oil, and OMG alcohol. However, common (at the time) leaded gasoline could damage internal parts of the engine.

I was at Tri-State College in Angola, IN in 1963. It is a well-respected engineering school. Chrysler brought one of the 55 cars built to the school to show the students. I saw it and heard it run. All but one of the 55 were the same color. 46 were destroyed after the test period. They were too expense to build and could not meet the new emission standards.