The widebody is finally finished...
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Ed,
Great picture - never seen that one before. I'm very tempted to look for a 6.0 coupe in the near future.
Not sure when I can get the car over to Willow for the twin turbo install - it's been a hectic few months with the business & travel. Good times in a tough economy, so no complaints.
I may buy an enclosed trailer & have it driven over after the first of the year - just need the time!
Thanks again to all who have provided positive comments - it means a lot.
Great picture - never seen that one before. I'm very tempted to look for a 6.0 coupe in the near future.
Not sure when I can get the car over to Willow for the twin turbo install - it's been a hectic few months with the business & travel. Good times in a tough economy, so no complaints.
I may buy an enclosed trailer & have it driven over after the first of the year - just need the time!
Thanks again to all who have provided positive comments - it means a lot.
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Ed,
Great picture - never seen that one before. I'm very tempted to look for a 6.0 coupe in the near future.
Not sure when I can get the car over to Willow for the twin turbo install - it's been a hectic few months with the business & travel. Good times in a tough economy, so no complaints.
I may buy an enclosed trailer & have it driven over after the first of the year - just need the time!
Thanks again to all who have provided positive comments - it means a lot.
Great picture - never seen that one before. I'm very tempted to look for a 6.0 coupe in the near future.
Not sure when I can get the car over to Willow for the twin turbo install - it's been a hectic few months with the business & travel. Good times in a tough economy, so no complaints.
I may buy an enclosed trailer & have it driven over after the first of the year - just need the time!
Thanks again to all who have provided positive comments - it means a lot.
I know the feeling...also having a very good year based on some contra moves I made.
Ended up with some cash that I'm putting into hard assets.
Bought a house down the street from me to pick up two more garage spaces and have my father-in-law living there.
Makes my wife happy and me even happier...two more garage spaces and a place for in-laws to stay when they visit !!!
Haven't spoken to Brian for a while, but I think he may be a bit slow.
Looking to buy or build something interesting, but also looking to take advantage of the weak market.
Specialty Mercs are very attractive !
Ed A.
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For a second I thought it was the car Satish was working on for himself at the shop but I recall he is dropping in a different motor. If I recall correctly he is dropping in a v12. I do however recall seeing your car parked diagonally in a corner of the shop when they doing the flaring. They do very impressive work. The car looks fantastic!!!!
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For a second I thought it was the car Satish was working on for himself at the shop but I recall he is dropping in a different motor. If I recall correctly he is dropping in a v12. I do however recall seeing your car parked diagonally in a corner of the shop when they doing the flaring. They do very impressive work. The car looks fantastic!!!!
Satish has actually installed an M119 V8 engine into the other coupe, which is actually his Brother-in-law's car. I highly doubt that we will see that car completed for a couple of years. Apparantly they have another customer with a Mosselmann Cab that is very interested in having them perform the same work.
With the V12, you must be thinking of his 560SEC that has the M120 engine conversion. An incredible feat of engineering....
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Well your car came out beautiful!!! I had seen the 560 with the v12, which is amazing because it looks like a factory setup. I guess I just wasn't paying attention that closely in regard to 124 coupe, regardless they are a great shop. I recalll trying to get Satish to fire up the Testarossa in the showroom, but he wasn't having it. Do you reside here in Michigan?
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Well your car came out beautiful!!! I had seen the 560 with the v12, which is amazing because it looks like a factory setup. I guess I just wasn't paying attention that closely in regard to 124 coupe, regardless they are a great shop. I recalll trying to get Satish to fire up the Testarossa in the showroom, but he wasn't having it. Do you reside here in Michigan?
The reason that Satish wouldn't fire up the black Testarossa in the showroom is because that thing smokes like a ***** when started!
When will it be up for sale...? It will take me a while to forget what I spent!!
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Funny about the Ferrari smoking on startup, he told me that same thing. I tried to tell him he would be fulfilling my miami vice boyhood fantasy, but Satish was like no. Oh, well it was worth a try. Right now I am getting ready for the snowstorm that is supposed to pummel us tonight and tomorrow. When you putting snow tires on the coupe? Just kidding. I think Motorwerks has an incredible shop. I wonder if Billy found the CL600 or 65 he was looking for.
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Rear end pictures below as requested. I'm hopng to have the car photographed in a few weeks - these are all taken when I picked the car up a couple of months ago...
They are OEM 500e front fenders on m car...
They are OEM 500e front fenders on m car...
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wow I bet your car throws up a pretty good rooster tail in the rain! those are some meaty tires! Love it.
As for the e320 trunk, his car is an e320 coupe. My understanding is that for whatever reason, MB never did a sedan-style e320 trunk on the e320 coupe. They just did the filler panel. Coupe and sedan trunks are not interchangeable.
As for the e320 trunk, his car is an e320 coupe. My understanding is that for whatever reason, MB never did a sedan-style e320 trunk on the e320 coupe. They just did the filler panel. Coupe and sedan trunks are not interchangeable.
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I may be mistaken but I thought the E320 coupes had the license pocket stamped into the trunk with the chrome handle like the sedans. That and the bumper strip that wraps around to the rear wheel opening.
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All credit goes to Mike(EVERYTHING other than metal fab) & Jason (metal fab) at motorwerks.
Pete - the coupe has been added to the "non-rain" list of cars!! Probably overly ****, but I've got so much into this paint, it would kill me.....
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After I got hand formed metal fenders fabricated on my 914 I started to worry who can fix these if they get dented? My metal shaper is 2 states from me...
