Mercedes Benz 220 SE - 53b
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Mercedes Benz 220 SE - 53b |
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The old 220SE is a lovely proportioned car and the slightly older model with the little pointy tail fins would be in my all time favourites garage, it is certainly my favourite Mercedes. I almost bought myself a (full size) E280 a while back, but it had none of the style or class of this old coupe. I eventually chose a Jaguar S Type - now that has style in buckets. The Matchbox Merc 220SE was released in 1963 coloured maroon, it was later changed to dark red. Wheels can be silver, black or grey plastic. This was a new departure for Matchbox having opening doors and being larger than the Matchboxes had been to date. The model remained in production to 1968 and is a fairly commonly found model with no very valuable versions. Of the ones listed the hardest to find is maroon with black wheels. The maroon one below is one I've owned since I was a boy and it is another jumble sale sourced toy, it never did have both doors. I always really liked this car and was so sorry that it only had the one door. One of these days I'm going to buy a complete one just to compensate for having to put up with a missing door for the past 45 years or so. I recently picked up another one in a mixed lot and both doors are missing from this one, a kind user of the site has taken pity and sent me a complete beater - with both doors in place so I guess I'd better do some repair work. |
| Maroon, black plastic wheels |
Dark red, black plastic wheels |
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