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Classic cars aren’t very good. I mean, they look beautiful, I think they’re very cool, but as cars, they’re just not great. It must be said that the golden years of motoring produced cars that were comfy on the highway, accelerated well, and handled with agility. But it must also be said that exceedingly few cars of the period were able to do all three of those things.
Our feature car, the 1971 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3, is, however, one of them. In fact, it may be the best classic car I have ever driven.
You could be forgiven for thinking the scenery influenced my assertion. The test drive took place during Monterey Car Week, on a scenic stretch of California Highway 1 between Monterey and Big Sur.
In the populated areas, impossibly expensive houses cling to sandy cliffs overlooking the Pacific; and in some of the more “natural” sections, there’s little other than the Point Sur Lighthouse to indicate any human activity at all. It was on these postcard-quality roads that I got to really see what made the 6.3 so special.
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