Photos by nifticus392 from the Cohort.
This Mercedes-Benz ‘off-roader’ seems to follow in the footsteps of a customized smart ForTwo I posted recently. Actually, that previous smart ForTwo looks like an engineering achievement against this Mercedes, whose makeshift qualities are all the more apparent.
Curiously, both the Mercedes and the smart were found in British Columbia. Maybe some of our fellow readers up north can provide insight into this apparent trend.
Or not. After all, human creativity is always a perplexing -and entertaining- mystery.
Ha ! .
Maybe better in the snow is my guess .
-Nate
Where I grew up and learned to drive there were no dirt roads (or snow). My first exposure was in 1975, a few years after getting my license, but before I had my own car, working at a vacation property site in the mountains of northern Virginia with a huge network of gravel roads, some quite steep. Finally, I could practice some rally driving skills that I’d only seen pictures of in magazines. But our work F100 with a six, three on the tree and slow manual steering wasn’t a great drift car. My grandfather’s /6 Dart was probably better, but not with him, or worse yet, his wife (not my grandma) in the passenger seat. My boss’s Capri? I only got to drive it once, without him, and I almost spun it once as it hopped around on the washboard. The best, though I only experienced it as a passenger, was a resident’s W108 V8 Mercedes. Not only did he drift it cleanly around turns, but it rode so smoothly. Mercedes suspension plus the big tires on this one probably make for a fun ride on BC forestry roads.
SD as in Schlampige Drecksau.
This is what you do when you inherit your Grand Dad’s old Mercedes. Wasn’t cool before, now it is. Can we call this a “Dirt Donk?”
If I remember correctly, W126 in general had a smaller tires than other similar size cars back then. So it is amazing to see this guy could fit a large tire into the vehicle
Sad.
Foul. Second dumbest automotive trend behind “stanced” cars.
Look at it this way Sam ;
At least he didn’t ruin a W123 or a decent truck……..
Gotta have some outlet for the bubbas, knowhutimean ? .
-Nate
I wonder…
I’ve seen an assortment of cars, most notably in my mind a BMW E24 635, jacked up with who knows what 4WD chassis stuck under it. This one doesn’t appear to have been so altered, but who knows, I can’t tell.
It’s a popular fad, at least out in this part of the world.