300SEL 6.3 Archives « Classic Jalopy https://www.classicjalopy.com/tag/300sel-6-3/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:53:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Old performance cars to Oberon https://www.classicjalopy.com/2016/05/old-performance-cars-to-oberon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-performance-cars-to-oberon https://www.classicjalopy.com/2016/05/old-performance-cars-to-oberon/#comments Sun, 01 May 2016 12:32:57 +0000 http://blog.docmong.com/?p=1228 Old performance cars are not particularly fast by modern standards.   They are surpassed by a garden variety hatchback in performance.   But while they might not be particularly fast, they are a lot of fun to drive on a winding country road.    Today I met up with some of the members of the Topklasse forum for a drive to Oberon.   I...

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]]> Old performance cars are not particularly fast by modern standards.   They are surpassed by a garden variety hatchback in performance.   But while they might not be particularly fast, they are a lot of fun to drive on a winding country road.    Today I met up with some of the members of the Topklasse forum for a drive to Oberon.   I had never been there before – but I will be back.    The road between Mt Victoria to Oberon has minimal traffic, is not clogged up with hoons on motorbikes and has wide sweeping corners and 100km/h speed limits.

On the drive we had a 300SEL 6.3, a W210 E55 AMG, a late model C class and I took my E-Type.

M100

E55

The drive was a lot of fun, even if the weather was iffy in the morning – starting from Richmond, up Bells Line of road, then over to Oberon.   The Jag performed well, although on the way back I had the brake dragging issue I thought I had finally fixed.   It got particularly bad about 1km from home and I had to limp back in 1st gear.     Pretty much the entire braking system on this car is new or refurbished, so it is starting to get difficult to work out what to do.   The symptoms were different here, a rock hard brake pedal and the calipers were dragging in general rather than a slow release like I had before.     The car did go past 66,666 on the way there, so maybe this is the reason.

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