Joy ride wrecks super rare Mercedes
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no shit, talk about having to work for peanuts to restore whats possible of that car and then getting fired.
Luckily, that's exactly what insurance is for. Still sucks.
On a good note, it's actually pretty cool that the old car took the damage so well.
On a good note, it's actually pretty cool that the old car took the damage so well.
Beals;1927045 said:
Way too old for those.
Also, it loosk like whoever wrote that article knows nothing about cars...
Poodles;1927048 said:
looks like an airbag hanging out the drivers door to me =S maybe aftermarket lol
It was fuel injected but I;d say its more known for its gull wing door styling then that.
Mercedes was usually the pioneer for what's going to be in car, for example the modern S class, almost everything you see in a new SL comes standard in most domestic vehicles 10 years later. IE airbags, sat. map, ability to park it self, rearview cameras ect
What I wonder is going to come up as an issue is what happened in a similar incident with a Lamborghini I read about. Guy takes his newer lambo to a high end alignment shop, mechanic takes it for a joy ride in the rain it spins out in an intersection and takes down a light pole iirc. Now the dealership/alignment shop whatever is obviously fully liable for the damages. HOWEVER the car now has a salvage/accident on its title which severely drops the resale value of rare/exotic cars and the owner of the car wants the amount back that the car has depreciated in by having an accident on its title but the shop doesn't want to cough it up. I'm not sure what ended up happening with that story, I know the owner got the media involved however to put pressure on the shop to cough up the cash.
Poodles;1927048 said:
I think he does:
http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature/tech/Motive_Tech_Gasoline_Direct_Injection.shtml
http://buyersguide.caranddriver.com/mercedes-benz/sl-class/specs#features
I was about to say, direct fuel injection didn't come along for quite some time after that, right? However, that image that A.Jay posted seems to suggest otherwise. I'll have to check the sources later. If that's legit, it explains a lot about how they manage to squeeze that much power out of an engine in the 50's with comparatively low displacement for the output.Poodles;1927048 said:
That's the headless corpse of the driver. Or a seat, more likely. I can't see someone buying one of these and putting air bags in it. I'd be surprised if it had any more safety features than a lap belt...Beals;1927085 said:
Also:
That's probably only because the owner will probably be slowly torturing them.JJ's initial link to the story said:
Definitely direct injection. The engine put out more power than a 7M-GE :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_300SL#Technical_data
Very impressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_300SL#Technical_data
Very impressive.
Hmm, I had to look harder to find the info I had (had a book on it around here somewhere). Yeah, it's direct injected, but finicky. Also, the HP numbers back then are rated differently (done on an engine dyno without any accessories being driven by the motor, etc.) They only realistically put out about 180HP. Still impressive for the time.