AMG Hammer Wagon: Only One Exists (Video)
The video Gods have answered our prayers because Petrolicious just did a film on the only AMG Hammer wagon in existence.
In the late-1980s, the idea of the fast sports sedan was epitomized by AMG’s Hammer. If you wanted to go quickly and carry your family with you, you politely asked AMG to stuff six liters of fettled glory in between your W124 Mercedes-Benz’s shock towers. After that, you handed them a check with a lot of numbers on it.
If you wanted to go quickly, carry your family, and pack a lot of extra stuff in the back, you wrote an even bigger check and gave them a wagon. That’s exactly what the original owner of this Petrolicious-featured Hammer had to do.
“Whatever you wanted, as long as you pay for it, [AMG] would make it a reality,” current owner Jonathan Hodgman says in the Petrolicious video above. Only one of these Hammer wagons was ever built, and we’re beyond smitten. Shouldn’t every car have color-matched, 3-piece wheels with machined lips?
This particular car began life as a diesel wagon and was built for a customer in Canada who wanted the car for his wife to drive every day, meaning this car was transformed from one of the slowest Mercedes possible into one of the fastest things ever to carry the three-pointed star.
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It could be said this car is the spiritual predecessor to the fast AMG mommy mobiles of today, now based on Mercedes SUVs like the GLE or GLK. In its day this car was capable of hauling booty alongside a Lamborghini Countach on the highway and beating it to 120 mph from a roll. That’s the level of performance that came standard with a Hammer.
There isn’t much to carry the AMG badge that makes our toes curl quite like this AMG Hammer wagon. This one isn’t for sale, and likely won’t be for quite a while, but if it ever does come up for sale, we’ll be scrapping tooth and nail for an opportunity behind the wheel. No matter the cost.
