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Location: Keller, TX | Here is a photo of my new toy.
2004 Mercedes C32 AMG |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Where do you fit the golf clubs?
Cool! |
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Location: Keller, TX | It actually holds two sets of clubs in the trunk (went yesterday).
Only holds one Ovation in its case. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The rest of the guitars go in the back seat.
Nice ride! |
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Location: Tennessee | Does Kim Keller know you stole his car? Or was this the shipping container that came back from the mothership? |
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Location: Tennessee | P.S. Those are quite little rockets. Pull the AMG insignia off and have some fun with the local street rodders. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Nice car. Your guitars will be riding in style.
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Location: Munich, Germany | Wow! A Chrysler!
Congrats, Kurt |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes but in saying Damiler-Chrysler the Chrysler is silent. |
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Location: CT | I'll trade you for my '94 Tempo, but make sure you fill the tank! |
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Pull the AMG insignia off... Not on your life. That's what makes this car. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This explains the deal I got on his Ad-II. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | If you wear a diaper, that'll get you to the tour in about 24 hours... |
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Location: closely held secret | Is that an oil puddle on the driveway underneath it? |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by ttenn:
Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Pull the AMG insignia off... Not on your life. That's what makes this car. |
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Location: CT | Originally posted by ttenn:
Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Pull the AMG insignia off... Not on your life. That's what makes this car. |
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Location: N.J. | I'll race ya for pinks. I could always give the wife the Benz! ;) :D :D |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I had my mid life crisis. In 2001 I got a brand new M5 with no badges on it at all. It looked just like a regular dumpy sedan. Well, except for the tires fatter than Moody's ass, and 4 pipes poking out the back. From 0-60 it was fun. But the second 60 was REAL fun. Traded it in on an SUV and then found the OFC and started spending money on ovations and martins. That's life. Oddly, I have no desire any more for a high performance car. Today I actually drive a station wagon. By CHOICE!
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Location: big island | 
Tuppy's Station Wagon - Aston Martin Virage |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I thought he meant this.
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Location: big island | shucks, phil. i was going alphabetically and Aston came before Beverly. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Pull the AMG insignia off and have some fun with the local street rodders. I did this very thing for a customer who got one of the first CL55's that MB in Laguna Niguel delivered (after we put a killer stereo in utilizing the stock Becker head, & adding amps and signal processing using the the factory D2B fibre optik data buss).
This car was SCARY FAST, but looked no different (at first glance) than a CLS430... Only the exhaust tips and HUGE rear tyres gave it away. I'm pretty sure he was going after Vette's and Stangs for money as no rice-burner could touch it.
Do you guys like my "euro-type" spelling? :p :D :p :D |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
If you wear a diaper, that'll get you to the tour in about 24 hours... But it will cost you your seat on the shuttle.... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Once I realized that the average motorcycle these days (including all of mine) can dust just about every four-wheeled vehicle on the road these days, I, too, stopped chasing after high performance. We fondly reminisce about the speed and power of the muscle cars from the 60's and very early 70's. However, when we check the real performance numbers, we find that today's only slightly tuned cars from Japan would pretty much walk away from most (but not all) of our beloved Camaros, Super Sports, Road Runners, Mustangs, 4-4-2s, GTOs and Vettes. In 1968, my slightly modified 1957 Ford turned 15.12 in the quarter mile and we all thought that was pretty good. Today's Corolla with a $300 chip upgrade would eat it for lunch, and the kids are absolute whizzes at understanding automotive technology. All the old rules about cubic inches have changed. Its all about valves, airflow and timing these days. I think I'll just stick to guitars. |
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Location: big island | ya ain't gettin that far away from it all professor.
good amplifiers have valves, good acoustic guitars and voices have airflow and timing is everything in music... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Oh no, Lanaki, I'm still doomed to a life of trying to catch up! |
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Location: Tennessee | CL55 Renntech. Talk about scary fast! That thing's got a top end of 300km/h. (I can talk euro too, Fred :) ).
"Back in the day", I had a killer muscle car ... 1968 Camaro SS396. My current ride (C4S) does 0-60 nearly 2 seconds faster and the 1/4 mile about 3 seconds faster. With just over 50% of the dispacement.
IF you want to run with the kids these days, just make sure you're running farther than their nitrous capability. :cool: |
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Location: SoCal | My fun ride these days is a 1983 Mazda Rx-7. Not terribly fast, but I'm secure knowing that I have more grins/dollar than almost anything else out on the road... |
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| You could have got an Audi for that money. ;) :p ;) |
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Location: big island | i had an '85 audi quattro. enjoyed it immensely. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Professor is sorta right. It's all power to weight ratios. That's why most motorcycles will blow the doors off a muscle car.
The kids with the rice rockets aren't that smart. They still spend a few thou on a stereo, a wing and a fart muffler and there cars aren't any faster. They'll buy a chip that will raise the redline to a point that the blow the engine.
On the other hand, someone told me today that a recent test of a Lexus and Infinity pointed out that the 0-60 times were within a tenth of a Lambo Countach. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I pulled the AMG off of mine but kept the M and moved it to the other side. Now in the back it reads CL55M. They all want to know what model that is and I tell them it's the Mutha or mega or monster depending on circumstances. At 530 horses it is kind of a monster.
I'd second what Tuppy said, it's the 60-120 where it gets real fun. All that said it's an 04 and has 26,000 and the 07 Suburban I got in May has 20,000. That is a pretty good indication where I'm at these days. |
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Location: Tennessee | Schuga's turning into a soccer mom? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hardly. You can fit 35 guitars in the Suburban, easily.
It shuts down at 97 so you can't go too fast. |
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