Creative E55?
05-28-2004, 10:46 AM
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Creative E55?
Yesterday on the 133 Toll Road (here in Southern California) I saw a very creative black E55 (w211). The owner had creatively replaced the wheels and tires with normal MB wheels and tires, taken off all the E55 body panels, put a stock exhaust on, and removed the V8 Kompressor badging. Looked like a normal E320 except for the E55 and AMG badging on the trunk. Sleeper car? Or a flaming idiot? Probably the same owner of the C240 AMG that's in Mission Viejo. Oh well. Life goes on.
05-28-2004, 12:48 PM
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Re: Creative E55?
Originally posted by Stricks
Yesterday on the 133 Toll Road (here in Southern California) I saw a very creative black E55 (w211). The owner had creatively replaced the wheels and tires with normal MB wheels and tires, taken off all the E55 body panels, put a stock exhaust on, and removed the V8 Kompressor badging. Looked like a normal E320 except for the E55 and AMG badging on the trunk. Sleeper car? Or a flaming idiot? Probably the same owner of the C240 AMG that's in Mission Viejo. Oh well. Life goes on.
Yesterday on the 133 Toll Road (here in Southern California) I saw a very creative black E55 (w211). The owner had creatively replaced the wheels and tires with normal MB wheels and tires, taken off all the E55 body panels, put a stock exhaust on, and removed the V8 Kompressor badging. Looked like a normal E320 except for the E55 and AMG badging on the trunk. Sleeper car? Or a flaming idiot? Probably the same owner of the C240 AMG that's in Mission Viejo. Oh well. Life goes on.
05-28-2004, 01:00 PM
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I have! Never seen so many Rolls in one spot! Even more than in a good sized Rolls dealership. And Mercedes seemed to flow like VWs at a "hippy" convention! But it was the fact that most every person on the street was talking on a cell phone, smoking and eating at the same time that was truly amazing. Loved Hong Kong and can't wait to go back!
05-28-2004, 02:46 PM
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Have to wonder if the driver of that "stealth E55" commissioned Harry the Dental Floss Guy to lift the "E55" and "AMG" badges off a real E55 somewhere else in town. Doubt that you can get the badges over the counter at your friendly M-B parts department. The presence of the E55 badges, but nothing else, is the opposite of true stealth and is the mark of a poseur. When BMW last produced the M5, they had an option to delete the M5 badges (only) from the car - that was true stealth, since only those in the know would recognize the M5 grille and exhaust treatments.
