Car & Classic Dealer

Waimak Classic Cars

PO Box 373 Rangiora 7440 North Canterbury New Zealand

Waimak Classic Cars

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Some things were built to last! Competence, even excellence, functional, rational, beautifully made and always expensive, the 123s are in many respects the essence of what a Mercedes is, or was. These cars were about doing business in the real world. In the sometimes flaky genre of old cars I have occasionally allowed ...

21 Feb 2024
New Zealand

Arguably, these cars were the best cars in the world at launch. In 1979, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class was relaunched, and once again took a big technological leap from what came before. Aerodynamic styling penned by Bruno Sacco signaled a new look that would filter its way down the entire range and showed that Mercedes-Benz ...

270,000
6 Jul 2019
New Zealand

The Mercedes 350SL is an elegant classic with no old car drawbacks. When it was new back in 1972, this Mercedes-Benz 350SL cost twice as much as a Jaguar E-Type, which actually is less ridiculous than seems. On paper, this Mercedes isn't all that special, but its superlative build quality is what sets it apart from ...

23 Nov 2018
New Zealand

Experts agree that the most durable Mercedes cars ever built are those of the New Generation W114/115 series, introduced at the Frankfurt Auto Show of 1967. Manufactured for almost a decade, until 1976, and devoid of black boxes and electronic gimmicks whose failures eventually relegate even rust free late-models to ...

11 Oct 2018
New Zealand

An Iconic Mercedes sportster, that’s better suited to cultured cruising than hair raising. Classics, don’t come more timelessly elegant than the Pagoda Mercedes, in any setting, and these cars are perfectly capable of crossing continents without breaking into a sweat. Now, much more valuable than the R107 SL that ...

7 Jul 2018
New Zealand

The C36 was the result of the partnership between Mercedes-Benz and its performance partner AMG, which had built a strong reputation for its tuned versions of regular Mercedes-Benz sedans. AMG began tuning Mercedes-Benz cars back in the 1960s, but today is part of Daimler and its work is now done in-house. It started ...

16 Jan 2018
New Zealand