---
title: "Sell Your House and Buy This Vintage Mercedes Combo"
description: "Motorhomes are flabby. Mercs are proper."
date: "2016-03-22"
modified: "2016-03-22"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/2662/sell-your-house-and-buy-this-vintage-mercedes-combo"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "For Sale"
  - "Mercedes-Benz News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Mercedes-Benz"
---

# Sell Your House and Buy This Vintage Mercedes Combo

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Traveling cross-country with one's own lodging—like a road-going turtle—doesn't have to mean retrofitting a bus. [Zach Bowman is doing it](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/2622/running-toward-the-fears-of-fatherhood>) real elegant-like, with a sturdy Dodge pickup and custom-built camper installed over a custom-built bed. Alternatively, you could ditch that level of stout utility and mechanical robustness for a more graceful setup. Take this [1960 Mercedes-Benz 220SE Coupe](<https://www.pyritz-classics.de/fahrzeuge/mercedes-benz-220-se-coupe-mit-austermann-knospe/>), complete with matching Austermann "Bud K" trailer, both painted in perfect Mercedes Light Blue. The pair is being sold in Germany after extensive restoration, during which the rare-in-its-own-right Austermann trailer was upholstered in terracotta leather. The ad notes that every piece of metal, leather, glass, and wood was meticulously revived, and received a "Grade 1" certification from... well, some certifying institution.

The 220SE coupe is typical for a Mercedes of the era. Which is to say: jewel-like in its interior, conservative outside, and on wonderful color-matched hubcaps. The trailer, conversely, hides a couple unexpected touches. Tile-mosaic backsplash? Check. Mahogany-rimmed card table? Indeed. Terracotta leather pillow that looks like a well-burnished elephant's liver? Of course.

Given that the 220's six-cylinder makes about 100 horsepower, we'd recommend bringing your leanest friends or family members along for the journey. But then, this is an aesthetics-first experience, so that's who was invited, anyway.

![032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-1.jpg>)
**Pyritz Classics**

![032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-2.jpg>)
**Pyritz Classics**

![032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-3.jpg>)
**Pyritz Classics**

![032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-4.jpg>)
**Pyritz Classics**

![032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/032216-vintage-mercedes-combo-art-5.jpg>)
**Pyritz Classics**

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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