Topic: Car projects
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Sat 03/15/14 05:11 PM
Anyone doing a car project around here?

I'm doing up an old 80s Mercedes 190E, the i6 in an AMG style.
I like the rumble and upshift chirp/twitch in something that looks at first like a 4-cylinder shopping trolley. At high speed it's astonishingly quick and stable, damn they built these things good.
Fast as an injected 5.0 litre, gets 500km from a 55 litre tank, safe as a track car in an accident (the 190E model was designed for european touring car race tracks, there's reinforcement all under the dash, along the doors, real track car roll bars built in from factory on that model, way exceeded all domestic safety standards in the 80s).

What are some of your iron-loves, members?
The US has a massive reproduction parts industry I've noticed, must be tons of you guys doing up cars.