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Updated Jan. 28th 2000

To be honest on this page one variant is still missing:
The only partly bodied car as base for special bodies - or was it theoretically available only?
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But here comes all the others and I bet you didn't know them all:
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Pullmann Six-Door

Photo copyright: Reference #3 p.487

Pullmann Four-Door

Photo copyright: Reference #3 p.486

Pullmann Landaulet Six-Door Short Soft Top

Photo copyright: Reference #2 p.22

Pullmann Landaulet Four-Door Short Soft Top

Photo copyright: Reference #3 p.490

Pullmann Landaulet Four-Door Long Soft Top

Photo copyright: Ref. #5    Thanks to Oliver Hartwich for sending the photo!

Pullmann Presidential Landaulet

Photo copyright: Reference #6    Thanks to Danny from Hollywood FLA for sending both photos of the Presidential Landaulet!

The difference to the "normal" Landaulet is that the cloth-top reaches more to the front, leaving the metal part of the roof only over the very front-seats..

Designed to accommodate royalty and heads of state, only 59 Landaulets were built. Of that number, only 10 of the long-top, Presidential version were manufactured. Notable Landaulet owners included Pope Paul VI, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Queen Elizabeth II, Marshall Tito, Prince Rainier ((of Monaco)), Thailand's Queen Sirikit and Romania's President Nicolae Ceausescu. Above, one of only two Presidential Landaulets in this hemisphere; both are owned by Kenneth C. Smith who estimates the new-car cost in 1970 currency was $82,000. This ceremonial coach is rife with special fittings that include an altimeter on the glove box door; rare crystal glasses and decanter in the bar; telephones front and rear; rearward grab handles for standing passengers; auxiliary battery; and a cotton canvas convertible top with specially machined mechanical components, wool headliner, chromed ribs and rare Macassar wood slats.     ......Photo and photo text copyright: Ref #6

Pullmann Pope's Landaulet

	Note the loooong rear doors and the coat of arms on them!
Photo copyright: Reference #5

.Landaulet Four-Door Short

Photo copyright: Reference #4 p.40  Thanks to Thomas for sending the photo!

This car was factory-built in 1966 for the German Constantin Graf von Berkheim, a former race driver.

Non-Pullmann

Photo copyright: Reference #3 p.484

Hearse

Photo copyright: Reference #8    Thanks to Oliver for sending the photo!

The hearse was built by the well-known body shop Pollmann in Bremen, Germany.

"Nallinger" Coupe

Photo copyright: Reference #2 p.161

Serial number 64.510.50.792 built by the late technical director of Mercedes-Benz, Professor Fritz Nallinger in 1965 as his personal "baby". The car is actually for sale in Hamburg, Germany from private hand and the asking price is DM 500.000 ((USD 250.000 assumed USD 1 = DM 2.00)), the price stated in ads in American newspapers is USD 325.000.

"KHM" Coupe

Photo copyright: Reference #7      Thanks to Danny from Hollywood FLA for sending the photo!

This is a conversion done by an independent restorer of Mercedes-Benz cars. The 1967 car was restored totally mechanically and cosmetically at only 44,144 miles in 1997, has a black leather interior and markassar ebony wood trim. It is painted in MB 571 metallic red and at the time the car once was for sale the seller asked USD 350.000 with a two year warranty, but didn't sell the car. Obviously the wheelbase is even shorter than the "Nallinger" Coupe's.

Sorry for partly poor photo quality - but better a not-so-good photo than none at all.

From the W100 Pullmann a total of 428 cars were built plus 59 Landaulets; from the W100 non-Pullmann 2190 were built coming to a total of 2677 cars.
Production dates: W100 Pullmann November 1964 to June 1981, W100 Landaulet April 1965 to May 1981 and W100 non-Pullmann September 1964 to June 1981.
Pullmann and Landaulet were available as both four- and six-door versions, non-Pullmann as a four-door version only.
A total of 44 cars were bullet-proof ex factory.
The two prototype coupes built at the Sindelfingen factory in 1965 had shortened wheelbases of 2980 mm and were two-doors only.

An interesting thing regarding W100 is door handles:
It is the only car I know of which was built with two, four, five or six door handles.
Seems to be the subject is hard to handle...

As usual remarks in ((blabla)), but (blabla) belongs to original text

Special thanks goes to
-Danny from Hollywood FLA for sending me both photos of the Presidential Landaulet and the one of the "KHM" Coupe!
-Thomas for sending the photo of the short Landaulet.
-Oliver for sending the photo of the hearse!   Visit Oliver`s W114/115 site!
-Oliver Hartwich for sending the photo of the Pullmann Landaulet Four-Door Long Soft Top!
  Visit Oliver Hartwich`s Mercedes-Benz pages!  Special tip: The MB car studies and projects

Photo references and sources for self-written text:
#1) Article from German car magazine "Auto Motor und Sport" issue 26 from December 12th 1997 pages 128 - 133 written by Eckhard Eybl
#2) Book "Mercedes-Benz Automobile" volume 5 "Vom 600 zum 450 SEL 6.9" written by Heribert Hofner published 1984 by "BLV Verlagsgesellschaft mbh Muenchen" in Munich, Germany 1984 ISBN 3-405-12793-9
#3) Book "Mercedes-Benz Personenwagen 1886-1984" written by Werner Oswald and published by "Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart" in Stuttgart, Germany 1st edition 1984 ISBN 3-87943-976-1
#4) Article from German car magazine "Motor Klassik" issue 9 from 1994 pages 34 - 43 written by Peter Weidenhammer
#5) DaimlerChrysler
#6) "Mercedes" published by MBNA (Mercedes-Benz of North America), issue XV 1985
#7) Ad in "Hemmings Motor News" September 1997
#8) Brochure of body shop Pollmann, Bremen, Germany

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