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Some of the greatest enthusiast cars in history have come from the fruitful minds of engineers forced to work in secret to avoid the swinging ax of the bean-counters or judgmental frowns of pragmatic executives. This was the case with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3 and its creator, Erich Waxenberger. In the mid-1960s, the Mercedes-Benz lineup was very conservative. Even the SL sports car was limited to six cylinders and heavily biased toward automatic transmissions and luxury touring. Mercedes’ saloon car lineup was even staider, with the W108 and its air-suspended sibling, the W109, topping out with a 3.0 liter, Bosch-injected inline-six. Of course, these were wonderful cars built with exceptional attention to detail – they just lacked the performance that Waxenberger desired. Working in secret and after hours, a small team led by Herr Waxenberger applied the classic American pony-car edict– “there’s no replacement for displacement” to the mid-sized W109, shoehorning in the all-alloy, 6.3 liter M100 V8 (lifted from the 600 grosser limousines).
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source: Hyman Ltd, hymanltd.com
