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SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: Can u believe this ??

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Old 10-09-2002, 11:20 AM
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The R129 turn out to be R230 ........LOL
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Hey shine, what color is that car. If the car is a SL55 then it would have quad exausts
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SL500 Ex SL55, ML55, S430
Interior gives it away - only after a closer look though!
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The car looks great. I wonder how much that costs!
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Why? What a waste of cash / time.

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WHY??? Because the new SL500 is a beautiful car but not everyone has a spare $100,000 laying around!
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Ok, but there's an appreciation for every car out there. I wouldn't take away from my own car in trying to pose as something it isn't. And I'm willing to bet those modifications are NOT cheap.

But that's just me.

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thing looks stupid, and will especially look stupid when the cloth top is visible.. OR did they replace that too??
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sl and M-class E320 4Matic SLK350
Rear Seats included?

I guess that is one way to get rear seats for your SL? Curious if the folding roof is part of the package or if top up is the original cloth roof? Maybe it wouldn't be that expensive to assemble if all one did was order the body panels as though the body shop would do for a repair. Anyone out there with a body parts catalogue with time to come up with a list of the sheetmetal pieces and what they would total?
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Interesting website

Check out the VH Tuning website (vhtuning.be) or email them at info@vhtuning.be Looks like this Belgium company which identifies their work as "Production - World Wide Export - and Patented ..." can turn your old style Mercedes into a current year look a like in ten days! Anyone learn what the cost would be?
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..........that is just amazing. The SL.

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Buy one of those and you'll be the laughing stock of every real R230 owner. Think how ridiculous the car will look with the (unchanged) fabric roof up and think how little of your money you'd get back at resale time, assuming you could find a buyer of course.

The line of the windshield, the seats and the horrid cutaway by the rear lights are instant give-aways.
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Buy one of those and you'll be the laughing stock of every real R230 owner. Think how ridiculous the car will look with the (unchanged) fabric roof up and think how little of your money you'd get back at resale time, assuming you could find a buyer of course.

The line of the windshield, the seats and the horrid cutaway by the rear lights are instant give-aways.



.............I don't own an SL let alone plan to modify one. I simply think it is amazing how they can modify it like that. I think you are a bit too serious about it though. If you are buying an SL for over $110,000, it better be that you like the car and as a result whatever else someone does to their own car to make it look like yours will be a form of flattery to you rather than an insult. If you buy a car solely for exclusivity, you will find yourself dissappointed when you realize that 25 year old kid down the street who you may have snubbed at the supermarket has two SL's. That is life. As far as modifications go, if it is okay to use Lorinser and Brabus cosmetic kits, why nt call this an R230 kit for the old SL? Just like 1998 w208 owners often use the post 2000 costmetic kits. If you own a post 2000 CLk, you can still tell the difference, but who cares?
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That guy is only fooling himself. If you can't afford the real thing, why front. The same goes for people who put the AMG labels on their cars when the car is not tuned by the company
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That guy is only fooling himself. If you can't afford the real thing, why front. The same goes for people who put the AMG labels on their cars when the car is not tuned by the company
Heh, one of the coolest things to do now is put a badge of a smaller engined car on your vehicle (i.e. a 520i badge on an M5, or a C200 Kompressor badge on a C32 AMG). Really does miracles in races.
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Heh, one of the coolest things to do now is put a badge of a smaller engined car on your vehicle (i.e. a 520i badge on an M5, or a C200 Kompressor badge on a C32 AMG). Really does miracles in races.
Funny story about this. A friend of mine in boston put a 528i badge on his M5 (looks funny, plus he gets odd looks) - anyways, he's speeding along one day and gets pulled over by a cop for goign too fast. The cop comes up to him and says 'slow down, what do you think this is, an M5?' - true story!

Personally, mine was debadged and it looks best that way.

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.................The assumption that everything one does these days to themselves, their home, their car etc has nothing to do with personal taste, but is all geared towards impressing someone else needs to be re-evalutated. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT SOMEONE CAN SIMPLY MODIFY THEIR CAR BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT THAT WAY?

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.................The assumption that everything one does these days to themselves, their home, their car etc has nothing to do with personal taste, but is all geared towards impressing someone else needs to be re-evalutated. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT SOMEONE CAN SIMPLY MODIFY THEIR CAR BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT THAT WAY?

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Yes we have, Ted. And I'd say that, it's an extreme waste of time, effort and money. Is this your car?

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Yes we have, Ted. And I'd say that, it's an extreme waste of time, effort and money. Is this your car?

...........Ya, you have busted me. I bought an old SL and shipped it from Atlanta all the way to Belgium just so it can be modified so I can impress others. Yep, you have me pinned.

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Well if you consider it so silly, why defend it? Your point alone proves how absolutely useless this is.

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...................my point is that whoever did may just have done it because he likes it. I never stated that I led it. I just found it amazing that it could asctully be done. But unlike you, I think many people get mods because they personally like it, not really because they wish to impress others. So, whether or not someone puts an AMG badge on their car or does whatever, its all good.

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I don't really know what this is doing on this forum anyway. Personally, I'm not in the business of dressing my car to look like something it isn't.

I have no interest in hearing what havoc a Belgian company can wreak on an R129 making it look like a R230. At the end of the day, it will not be the real thing - either a 129 or a 230 - and the hapless buyer will have wasted thousands better spent elsewhere.

Belgium has no indiginous car industry, apart from churning out thousands of worthy but oh-so-dull Ford Mondeos.
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Ted,

if I were interested in impressing others, I would condone the actions here. I'm a proponent of subtlety (like my debadged M5), with every intentions of asking the dealer to remove the v8 compressor and sl55 amg badges.

Regardless, I misinterpreted your comments and I apologize if you felt attacked by that.

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