This ride was the SHI and T back when I first came to Deutchland. The guys over at Jalopnik were discussing the Hammer 300E http://www.fantasycars.com/sedans/html/hammer.html and I thought I could share the nostalgia since it's one of our own.

 

what an amazing vehicle. it's still impressive in 06

the red one kinda reminds me of 2Phast's E5.

 

Yeah, I was goign to say, I wonder if 2phast took some of his styling cues from the Hammer. Personally, And i know its blashphemy, Im in with the 190 evolution II

 

Did you catch the price tag? I thought I would fall over!

 

Wow... almosk 200k in 1988? thats like... whoa...

 

That equals, in todays money, like 1 MILLION dollars (no pun intended)

 

Who has those cars? I mean, someone must, and why arent they on the benz enthusiast boards??/

 

there's some nice pics in this thread on the 5th page, and someone scanned in an original write-up on the 6th page...

http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforu...t=65945&page=5

 

Mark my words ... My car WILL be a hammer...

... replica.

 

I believe you baby
Whats your first step in that direction?

 

LOL this is getting out of control!

I'm sOOOO jelousssssssssssss

 

hey, no ... you all can be my b!tches! lol jk!

Ummm ... Either WALD or the AMG. I finally have source to order AMG parts from Japan so I'm going to look into that. There's my first step!

 

Sweeet.... not to sound or anything.. whats sourcing? And how do you do it?

 

you dirty **** I called you first!

you better post pix as soon as you get that kit

 

There's a company here that will place all orders on Yahoo, Ebay Japan for you and all you do is give them the money and they deal with everything else. Japan seems to be the only place where someone can get a REAL AMG kit now in days.

I called you way before this all started.

haha I probably won't get the kit for awhile. oh well - something for you guys to look forward too.

 

Hey since it's going to be a replica will you sell me the lower cladding?..After all the AMG hammer came out in 86 and dosen't have the updated moldings...

by the way I found some chrome HAMMERS!! 28mm offset this time...

 

WHERE!? PM me if you don't want anyone else to see. lol

and my car is gonna be a replica hammer with updated cladding. LOL!

 

So all I need to do is convert an engine over from a 560SEC? One of those spanked me a few weeks ago, and to make it worst it was an old man saying "Keep Up If You Can Youngsta"!!! Atlast now I know my my someday may be a muscle car and then I'll be whooping on Monte Carlos and Mustangs again.

 

Yeah a 560SEC engine fits in the 300e but it's alot of work...

Actually, remember my post about asking people if they sell their rims...Well one of them took the bait, All I gotta do is find them a stock set of rims and some $$ for their wheels. I've noted where their are 4 sets of these rims. 2 of the people that have them are in East Los Angeles (sky blue 300e and Dark Green e320), 1 is in Hawaiian Gardens (black 300e), and the other one in Alhambra (white 300e).

 

Hey, I have my stock rims that i dont want anymore!

 

The red one sold on ebay about 6 months ago without the engine. The engine had blown but the guy that bought it found it and has been rebuilding it back to stock. Some guy on the east coast I believe.

I was this close to bidding on it since it did come with an engine but it was a bit expensive to get running.

 

i know youve already hit up the recyclers and ebay getting a cheap set right?

i wish i had as et of rims like alon or chris. aero 1s are the sheezy. they just look so "right."

 

I'll have a set soon, i'm the hammer hunter now so i'll try to buy them all out lol...j/k

Guess who's selling their hammers on ebay...too pricey i think
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCE...QQcmdZViewItem

I've had a of set mint condition AMG Hammers before too but they where the wrong 11mm offset and didn't fit.

 

I heard that!

 

Whats the big deal with the hammer rims? They look too generic to me. Like Escalade rims are worth a down payment on a new high class car but who is really trying to sport those when they can get rims that out do it in almost every way. Its like sticking to an old 8-bit nintendo and not ever upgrading to ps2, x-box, etc. To tell the truth if I wasn't ever into Mercedes and actually took the time to look at the rims I'd think they were just hubcaps.