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| paul-NL |
Posted - 06/30/2009 : 14:06:28
we can't wait for the comming "LWB-section"
so we make a start now .....
start with the (unidentified) first build:
237
362 Pope-car
and the only SWB:
830 Graf von Berckheim
894 President Ivory Coast Africa
896 Tito Yugoslavia
1096 President Gabon
added 1129 [ex Mobutu's]
1217 Ceausescu
1634 M Glass
1784
1790
1854 Tito
1879 (ex Africa)
1894 President Senegal
2165 factory
2283 ex Africa
2316
added 2320
2541 Ceausescu II
RHD601 Sultan v Brunei
RHD1743 Sultan v Brunei
RHD1942 Lindsay Fox ex Bob Jane
RHD2020 pres South Africa
So that were the identified cars, and now the unidentified pictures:
6d Bulgerian
ex Idi Amin
Moa Tse Tung
4d exMobutu could be 001129
6d ex Bongo
Paris (now in south Germany ???)
RHD 002657 in Johor
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| paul-NL |
Posted - 03/11/2013 : 11:47:18
Okee Andrew,
I finaly found some pictures from that particular 1978 Landaulet:
So, now we know, that that Landaulet has a Vin around 2500 or higher.
Thank you for your hint and valuable info. It is a 4door presidential. |
| Andrewo |
Posted - 12/30/2012 : 13:09:11
I was at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours and that one is a different car. I haven't seen any pictures of it anywhere which I found odd. It is black, in kind of rough shape, and it did not have leather interior. Saddam's has a significant dent on the front right corner of the car near the front headlight and it is a 4 door model. The guy who works there said a doctor drove it out of Iraq and they bought it from him. |
| paul-NL |
Posted - 12/28/2012 : 21:49:08
As far as I can "reconstruct", that car you have seen, will be:
A 1969 Mercedes-Benz 600 Presidential Landaulet, this car was built for the government of Romania and its leader, Nicholae Ceausescu.
and should look as follows:
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| Andrewo |
Posted - 12/28/2012 : 20:04:45
Yesterday I went on the tour of the basement of the Peterson automotive museum in Los Angeles and they had a very interesting 600 there. I don't believe that there are pictures of it on here buy I may have missed it. They own Saddam Hussein's 600 Presidential Landaulet. It wasn't in great condition but was still every interesting. They said they will never put it on display. |
| paul-NL |
Posted - 12/22/2012 : 19:24:10
no, that is definitly not the crayford-fake, which was also LHD. |
| Ron B |
Posted - 12/22/2012 : 16:56:15
Thats not the Crayford car is it?
 quote:
12-14-2004, 11:49 PM #8
Tom Hanson
MBCA Member
What the heck, try to stuff a MB 6.9 liter V8 in it. What a machine that would be..
__________________
Tom Hanson
Orange County Section
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| paul-NL |
Posted - 12/19/2012 : 19:00:58
Thank you Will, I overlooked that headrest ...
So the landaulet has to be before 001133. |
| will |
Posted - 12/19/2012 : 16:47:45
Hi Paul,
I think this car is produced before 1969. Look at the headrest in one pic and the hubcaps in the other pic.
Greets Wilfried
100.012-12-001411 |
| mtrei |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 23:12:16
Bowie is still a pretty major star, and these days he lives here in New York with his supermodel wife Iman.
I doubt he remembers any details of the 1976 Landaulet event.
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| Art Love |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 18:56:26
I thought that the other people in the car looked African, rather than South American. It would make more sense if it was an African dictator who owned the car. Perhaps he got another one and registered this one in the UK for use when he was there (if he wasn't assassinated ). Maybe someone could ask David Bowie - at least he hasn't been assassinated and presumably has a website/blog/facebook or whatever.
Art |
| paul-NL |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 15:35:00
Oeps Mike,
Licenseplate in GB could be for sure 1974/1975, because afterwards licensed = imported from South America ...
That was not my intention to doubt about ....
Sorry, my "bad communication" ...
I was mentioning the productiontime / VIN ... |
| mtrei |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 14:52:48
quote:
Originally posted by paul-NL
Thanks for your research ...
But 1974 or 1975 can't fit, because the Vin has to be before 001500. (oct 1969)
The plate is definitely from 1974/75, and absolutely cannot have been issued earlier.
The South American dictator claim came from this source. Reading it again it says that the dictator was assassinated, which is not true for Forbes Burnham who lived until 1985.
http://books.google.com/books?id=vk-I_ZM_PfwC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=david bowie south american dictator victoria station&source=bl&ots=nPt9gcEyEX&sig=MtNznKSPIcVFfUACsbhmIAzglfg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vcjQUKLiGqu20AGUtYHoBA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=david%20bowie%20south%20american%20dictator%20victoria%20station&f=false |
| paul-NL |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 14:37:32
Thanks for your research ...
But 1974 or 1975 can't fit, because the Vin has to be before 001500. (oct 1969)
Suriname was a dutch country, so no dictator available at that time ...
Then it had to be guyana ?? |
| mtrei |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 14:25:04
quote:
Originally posted by paul-NL
Any idea from which year that licenseplate is ??
An "N" plate would be from August 1974 to July 1975.
I found in a Bowie biography where it said the car used for the Victoria Station event had previously belonged to a "South American dictator." The problem with that is that the letter year suggests that the car was almost new at the time of the Bowie event (May 1976). Also, the car is right hand drive. The only South American countries that drive on the left are Suriname and Guyana. Perhaps the car belonged to Guyana's dictator Forbes Burnham, or the "South American dictator" claim from the book could be completely wrong.
It is possible that a later year plate was issued when the car was brought from South America to the UK. |
| paul-NL |
Posted - 12/18/2012 : 08:25:03
Mike,
Any idea from which year that licenseplate is ??
(could help by finding the Vin ....) |
