Title: Re: Luggage
Post by: Walter Yin on January 10, 2008, 11:35:34 AM
Do you have a better picture of the second style?
Perhaps with a ruler laid next to it?
For the repro luggage we get locks that look very similar to one of the several styles.
Someday, if we get lucky, we can make a time line of how the luggage varied.
What is amusing, is that most SLs with luggage get them done as "deluxe' style which was the least common and I do not frequently see sedans with deluxe but rather with the standard, which I think is more right. In other words, most sedans and cabriolets (pontons and X frames) have luggage which is in the delivered form. SL owners (not knowing any better?) have theirs in matching leather. This is just my observation from several decades of looking.
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Title: Re: Luggage
Post by: NCS on January 10, 2008, 12:28:08 PM
Next time I am back in Australia, I will photograph both keys and measure them. I believe that most of the sedans had the "normal" fabric based luggage, while the SL's, Coupes and Cabrios had the pigskin/leather version. It is not clear in the options/price list. I will also try and take photos of all of the pieces of luggage that I have, which must be 20 or so pieces/sets, and identify them to particular models, be they 170/220 sedans, cabriolets, 300 sedans and coupe/cabriolets, and Pontons.
