Wonderful drive experience! I always forget how much gear whine there is with manual gearbox Mercedes, even in early 70’s era.

Pinnacle of 50s automotive engineering 💪

I can't tell you enough how much I loved this video and how much goosebump it gave me! This video is just like my dream, which is to drive a SL down a beautiful road like this with my love in passenger seat. But now she is gone & so is my every dream! But still thank you for this amazing video anyway and I watch this often. It hurts man, it's reminds me of her but I still…

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Hey man, i‘m really sorry to hear about your loss! I know the pain you feel. I’m happy I could lighten up your day a bit with my video, and in case you ever make it to Switzerland, send me a mail and we go for a drive! Thank you, keep your head up and see you soon!

Thank you for driving the car this way and sharing it with us!

Thank you so very much for this video, (in all the other videos the cars are driven like they are made of eggshells) I bought a 57 300SL at a chevy dealer near Philadelphia in 1969 for $5K ( I was 21 years old) the motor needed crankshaft bearings, and I had the engine rebuild by a friend that was a master mechanic from Germany. Off course being 21 I drove the car very hard, it was the most fun I had in my entire life. Obviously, I loved the car, but unfortunately, my parents talked me into going back to Germany with them, they brought me over when I was 14, and I could not afford to have the car shipped to Germany so I had to sell it. The sad part is I only stayed 3 months, I did not like it, so I could have kept it, I'm still kicking myself for that to this day.

What a lovely car! Thank you for sharing your great experience to this video!

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching it! If you haven't already, make sure to like and subscribe. I'm currently working on two new videos :)

It was an unreal experience to watch this video, my one of the most favourite dream cars. Keep it up

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! You're very welcome to like and subscribe to help me spread awareness of my channel. Next up I will upload a video of a Porsche 993 Turbo or BMW Z8 so stay tuned!

I got to drive in the baby version of this as a kid, the 190 Sl Roadster, a rare example with original paint and a record player under the dash on the passenger side, silver and red with a crack in the paint over the mercedes benz logo in the back, by far it was the nicest and most comfortable car I've ever been in, far better than the 230 Flatfaced Pagonda that followed it like I sat in one of those 10 years latter and it was like a cheap knock off, like a honda civic from the 80's with a flat floor and no leather save for the seats and the door guards, which were probably vinyl

Very nice. Coincidentally, I just watched " Kidd in a Sweet shop " youtube channel. She spent episode with exactly this colour and model car. It had 380,000 miles on it. You might want to watch it.

Thank you sooo much! This was so awesome!

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Nice video. Fantastic car. I wish I was there. Thanks

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope i find the time to post more content of various cars soon.

Wow, awesome!!!

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Love it!

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Love this car just can't imagine driving without seatbelt and airbags.

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

You get used to it :) thanks to my family i grew up around classic cars and know these cars since i‘ve been born.

@ericbitzer5247

Жыл бұрын

Just don't crash! Then you don't need them.

The most beautiful car ever built. Hat er schon Scheibenbremsen?

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Well, Enzo Ferrari considered the Jaguar E-Type as the most beautiful car ever built. I'm showing this car in one of my upcoming videos. But I agree with you :)

Yes indeed.

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Have you watched my E Type Videos yet?

I have one my friend, but I don't know how to make it new. Can you point me to someone who can buy it or someone who works for it

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Email me on: petrol_driver@hotmail.com

is this in Austria?

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Almost, it’s Switzerland.

What country is this?.

@arkhamlegend786

Жыл бұрын

switzerland

@andrewparfrement8583

Жыл бұрын

@@arkhamlegend786 thank you for your help.

@arkhamlegend786

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewparfrement8583 no prob man! I paused it and looked on a passing cars licenced plate

This or E-type?

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Phu, that's a tough one. For me personally, the E-Type gives me more of a "sporty" feeling while the 300SL just sounds, looks and drives better. If they were valued at the same price, I would go for the Mercedes.

@ericbitzer5247

Жыл бұрын

Both beautiful, but I would take the Benz.

You're supposed to drive it with old, dirty gloves?

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Well, I do have a set of new ones, but the ones I am wearing in the video belonged to my father for more than 20 years. After he passed away, I kept them since they fit me perfectly. Furthermore, it's nice to have something of him with me :)

@LALEICAM3

Жыл бұрын

@@petroldriver I understand: thanks for posting this video. I enjoyed it.

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome. Feel free to subscribe and you kight even see my new, clean gloves in a video ;)

Great video, but why the watermark? Really annoying and pointless, you give up the rights to your video as soon as you publish on YT. Thanks anyway.

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Jup, still learing about youtube since i just started uploading on this channel. The upcoming videos wont have a watermark :)

Sadly soon all combustion cars, bikes including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime (BABVVO = Bundesabgasbespassungsverbotsverordnung)!!!!

@ericbitzer5247

Жыл бұрын

Really need to fight back against that bullshit. You have unelected scumbags in the EU that think they control your lives. They may try it in America, but they haven't taken our guns, and when the tyranny gets too bad, I'm sure we will use them.

@Schlipperschlopper

Жыл бұрын

@@ericbitzer5247 China sadly controls the EU

This is BS I don't believe he would drive a million-plus car with the engine not warmed up.

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

I have beed driving the car for almost two hours before i started recording. Dont worry, it was properly warmed up :)

Fake, computer animated!

@petroldriver

Жыл бұрын

Luckily no! I indeed drove the 300sl that day :)

Driving gloves with cargo shorts is not a good look.

@ericbitzer5247

Жыл бұрын

Who cares when you're in a 300 SL Mercedes?