{"id":27978,"date":"2012-08-10T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=27978"},"modified":"2022-06-22T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:48:28","slug":"mercedes-220-coupe-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/mercedes-220-coupe-111\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes 220 Coup\u00e9 (111)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A neighbour of mine used to own one of these beauties. There’s something amazingly sculptural about the curvature of the glass in the rear three-quarter that made me sigh.<\/p>\n

Never having been a particular Mercedes fetishist, the way this coup\u00e9 is burnt into the cortex is surprising.<\/p>\n

The redesign of the straight-ahead sedan into the lovely two door format was the responsibility of engineer Paul Bracq in the early 1960s – and it’s in the long, low lines that blend beautifully into that rear three quarter -augmented by the lovely glass work – that puts this car into the class we’ll be aching for.<\/p>\n

In Royal blue with whitewalls please.<\/p>\n\n\t\t