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Old 02-22-2012, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by strelnik View Post
There's a regsiter of 260s in the US. The people are paranoid about them. There's at least one in Michigan and one source I talked to last year, said there were 49 total in the US, more than in Germany. The museum in Untertuerkheim never thought they were a big deal.
Really. I am amazed. I believe I read a road test of the one (in the MBCCA?) that is in the mb museum in Stuttgart and I thought they said it was the only surviving one.

Perhaps I am all wet or it was actually a different model. I believe they blew the motor on the museum car in the course of driving it around.

I'd love a 170 to piddle around with.
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