Description
Body red, interior brown with black steering wheel. Chassis silver, wide radiator grille silver. Rims red. Warning light inserted blue transparent. Front headlights and window surround silvered. Side moldings and window frames also silvered. Rear side Mercedes-Benz star and type plate "180" printed silver. Rims also silvered with trim and Mercedes-Benz star. Rear tail lights red colored by hand. On the back white lettering "fire department".
The pride of the fireman
The company car of a fireman in the 1950s was by no means as natural as it was today. WIKING introduces the emergency vehicle of the post-war decade, which was only used by a few professional fire brigades in the fire station. With the 180s sedan, Mercedes-Benz once heralded the new era of the pontoon body. Unlike its predecessors, which still had curved fenders and running boards, the body was now visually "molded from one piece". The Mercedes-Benz 180 has received as the only post-war sedan the design-defining surname "Ponton". He was used in the fire departments until well into the 1960s.