Tagged: Bruno Sacco

Youngtimer Sacco Day 2024 3

Youngtimer Sacco Day 2024

Today was one of the premier events in the MBCNSW Calendar – Youngtimer Sacco Day.   The purpose of the event is to celebrate the cars of the late Bruno Sacco, previously head of design at Mercedes-Benz.   This is the fourth time the club has run Sacco Day, having held previous events in 2020, 2021 and 2023. The thing that makes this event great is...

Youngtimer Sacco day 2023 1

Youngtimer Sacco day 2023

Today was the third annual Youngtimer Sacco day.   This is an event run by the Mercedes-Benz club to celebrate the cars of the legendary designer, Bruno Sacco.    As with the last two, the event was held at HARS.   HARS is an aviation museum located at Shellharbour Airport in Albion Park NSW. The event is focused on the cars designed by Bruno Sacco, but...

Guest Article: In search of another Benz – Part 1 6

Guest Article: In search of another Benz – Part 1

It’s only been a bit over a year since I sold Oskar, my 1988 300SE at the 2021 Shannons Autumn Auction. It was my father Oskar’s pride and joy, and I was keen to join the MBCV when I inherited the car in 2011. For many years I used the car as a daily driver, then later it was swapped to club plates, with...

Youngtimer Sacco Day 2021 4

Youngtimer Sacco Day 2021

Today was the MBCNSW Youngtimer Sacco Day 2021 – The second annual event.   The day is to commemorate the cars of Bruno Sacco, head of design at Mercedes-Benz from 1975-1999.   As with last year, the event was held at the HARS aviation museum.   This event has become one of the biggest on the MBCNSW calendar. Unfortunately we had heavy rain most of the day. ...

Youngtimer Sacco Day 2020 2

Youngtimer Sacco Day 2020

The Mercedes Benz club NSW ran an event today to commemorate the cars of Bruno Sacco.   Sacco was head of design at Mercedes-Benz from 1975-1999.    The event was called Youngtimer Sacco day and I understand the intention is to make it an annual event.   Given the success of today’s event, I can easily see why. The event started out at Tynan’s Mercedes-Benz dealership...

The car stylists behind my Garage 1

The car stylists behind my Garage

Today, I was reading an excellent article on Curbside Classic about the legendary Paul Bracq.   Bracq had a long career with Mercedes Benz, BMW, Peugeot.  He also worked at an independent styling house.   Part one covers his time at Mercedes-Benz and part two the rest of his career.   I highly recommend this article. Bracq was responsible for one of Mercedes-Benz most elegant designs of...

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