By Jeff Glucker
The W110 Mercedes-Benz is a classically cool machine that combines the standard vintage style you’d expect from an old German machine with a dash of rare exterior flourishes. The car has fins, a great face, and wonderfully sculpted wheel openings. It’s a classic for sure. Reader Otto Nobedder managed to spy a rather unusual looking Benz at a local shopping center.
What you’re looking at is a W110 Benz that has been transformed into a car-truck. There are two questions I have for the owner, who told Nobedder that he preformed the work himself.
1) Excellent work, I don’t have a question here just taking a moment to congratulate you.
and
2) What do we call this? Is it an Benzamino, Benzchero, or Bampage? Check out another shot after the break.
Thanks for the pics Otto!
Whoa.
Given the former Daimler-Chrysler partnership, it's a Rampenz.
I was thinking 230Scamp, but yes, clearly some form of Chrysler cartruck.
Actually is would be a Benz Coupe Express. At the time of the W110 M-B was most closely associated with Studebaker.
<img src="http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/12/1937StudebakerCoupeExpress_01_700.jpg" width="500/">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Coupe_Express” target=”_blank”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Coupe_Express
Me and Lorenzo rollin' in the El Benzo.
Does that read "COUPI" just below the dealer ID tag on the rear trunk/tailgate? Could this be a new, previously unheard of name for these sweet car/trucks?
Also, what's up with the bitcoin link? Working that Ponzi scheme hard aren't ya?
[youtube z1DzZ7oShl4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1DzZ7oShl4 youtube]
and I don't care what we call it!
What's up with the reddit/Bitcoin article URL below the last photo? A quick scan of that page didn't net any more MB cartruck info.
oooh, wait – it's your sly way of letting us know we can redeem our Hooniverse/Atomic Toasters/ID points for Bitcoins! ha ha ha ha ha ha, we'll be INTERNET rich!
hahahaha… Tim and I were talking about Bitcoins yesterday, I must've copy/pasted that into the article accidentally.
Tip jeff_glucker .01 BTC verify
these actually exsist dont they? they made hurses from them. didnt they make flower cars as well?
havent found one yet and still searching but in my search i found this crazy thing
<img src="http://flipacars.com/pics/Cadillac/cadillac-fleetwood-flower-car-06.jpg">
HOLY HOONIVERSE! maybe we need to do a funeral car discusion
<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kSsM2sbbrlU/ULgK3FPJQaI/AAAAAAACOFQ/ycgY_EkaJao/s640/4616601351_a6064ebcc2_b.jpg">
BOOM! found one
<img src="http://mitglied.multimania.de/albeyer/6a668a60.jpg">
You mean like this…? http://hooniverse.info/2010/12/08/1929-cadillac-he…
yeah like that.
Yes, please! PRO car nut here…
It sure looks like a funeral flower car to me.
<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ga4vVni1I2Q/TazOAWS2r2I/AAAAAAAANN0/SL_C8vIvNg4/s1600/w115.jpg" width="600">
I present the FACTORY W115 Pickup.
<img src="http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/attachments/vintage-mercedes/41804d1172923335-ever-see-w115-pick-up-benzomino.jpg" width="600">
Also a 600 Grosse Camino.
holy crap!
The 600 pictured above is Karl Middlehauve's Benzomino. He made a second, TURBOCHARGED, 600 based pick-em up, El Benzo. Incidentally, both are for sale.
http://www.mbgrand600.com/Page6.html
El Benzo! Perfect, EOD.
Excellent link!ETA: turn off your sound before checking out the slideshows – annoying auto-play music is annoying!And designed by Paul Bracq himself ! Getting the cars original designer to design your utility conversion must be nearly as good as a factory job itself !
Karl Middlehauve's shop is thought to be the best 600 restoration facility, outside of the MBZ factory, in the world.
http://www.mbgrand600.com/
Incidentally, Karl also made a 600 coupe.
http://bringatrailer.com/2009/06/20/bringatrailer…
He deserves a star for that, Jeff.
Just a filled rear door (or two) from perfection.
I was going to ask.. Why did he leave that rear door there? The rest of the work seems fairly flawless from the pictures. Could it be structural? I wouldn't think so, but stranger things have happened, I'm sure? How hard can it be?
/putsonflamesuit
WTF?! You go ahead and make a truck out of a four door car but don't shave the rear door or handles?! Craftsmanship notwithstanding, this is a huge and glaring oversight.
What if the doors still work? Cover your load AND access it from the front.
I'm only guessing here, but it could be that the rear doors are repurposed as spare tire and/or toolbox covers. It would make more sense than having to access these things via the load area.
On professional cars (hearses and flower cars, some coachbuilders left the doors for this purpose. The more well-known coachbuilders did away with that on flower cars but a number of hearses and ambulances store their spare tire in a space that looks like a step when you open the rear door. The other side was storage or additional battery, etc.
Hate it. A waste of the passenger doors.
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