Cool project van Leno:
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Hij gaat hem voorlopig nog niet restaureren. Lekker rat-look, origineel, doorleefd (als racer), maar technisch goed. Zo hebben ze ontdekt dat de motor te arm was afgesteld en dit hebben ze opgelost, nog voordat ze 't blok in de soep konden laten draaien. Bij Leno zijn auto's altijd in goede handen, dat kan ik wel waarderen.
Even wat grappige quotes voor de luie lezers:
True trueThese 3-liter Sixes were supposed to develop 220 to 240 hp. We cleaned it up internally, did a little work to it, and we’re seeing around 180 hp. I was disappointed, but I talked to a few Mercedes guys, and they said that was about right. It’s like the Jaguar XKE—Jag claimed 265 hp, but it was probably more like 210 hp. Back then, everybody lied about horsepower.
Mercedes-Benz has always produced those parts, and that makes people bond with the brand.
They built just 1402 300SL Gullwing coupes, but it was enough to support the spare-parts market. If you write a book on the Gullwing, you’ll always sell at least 1400 of them. If you write a book on, say, the Jackson car, made in Michigan until 1923, you’ll sell five. There might be five Jacksons left out there.
Even more trueEn speciaal voor de AMG-fappers komt 't volgende project:
Dat wordt me een sleaper! Letterlijk, lekker tukken op de achterbank terwijl je chauffeur de locale Hermandad van zich afschud.The Gullwing isn’t our only Mercedes project. I bought a 6.3-liter 600 sedan from the 1960s with 324,000 miles on it—my favorite Mercedes from a styling and performance point of view. I thought, why don’t we install the modern 6.3-liter V8? So we’re putting in a new AMG 563-hp V8, like the one in the SLS, with a seven- speed transmission. We’ll turn it into the ultimate 6.3 Mercedes-Benz. Stay tuned.
