ABALONE

I just came home from a "little" spontaneous road trip with my wonderful and highly beloved E55 AMG. Man these W210 E55's are really well built and they really belong on the fast German Autobahn roads.
Hopefully the visit at Kleemann in Denmark with the nice welcoming will result in something special with my E55 if they can work a few things out for me as I suggested The car as it stands right now is a beast for being a N/A V8, and with the German 100 Octan Shell V-power fuel it ran even more impressing after a few Km run in on the Autobahn. The car has a curb weight of only 1620 KG (I've weight it a few weeks ago) so I believe it has the potential of turning out to something really special.

Hope you enjoy the pics, a few are from Sweden where I started my trip.







































And a video of a high speed run somewhere between Mannheim and Frankfurt.

280 Km/h/175 Mph

armaniE55

Siick! Nice run and pics

ob1kenobi

Thanks for sharing.

Keep on

thebenzbar

AWESOME pics... this one is my favorite! all the way!!

SaMaS

very nice thanks for sharing

car looks great

JamE55

YES!! 280km/h!!

We need more pics of the Kleemann office please! That is my hometown!

thebenzbar

BTW, what wheels are those? Looks good on the W210, IMO.

ABALONE

Thanks guys, glad you liked them

I was actually about to take some inside pics of all the candy they had there,like headers,their Superchargers etc etc, but the man I spoke to who was some kind of manager there told me that he didn't want me to take any pics, not what they are doing are top secret, but I respected that and said I'd turn my interest to Renntech instead
Anyhow, it was a really great experience to visit them. They had a few nice cars that they where building on, a W211 E55 that was getting a stage 2, and the new R500 that had a Kompressor,headers and a full flow exhaust installed, he even started it up for me and let me listen to the sound, quite different compared to my V8 sound, must be the headers,or the four pipes in the back? Had a more smattering sound where my E55 has a more dark and collected sound.

ABALONE

Those are "Jimmythagreeks" old wheels, 19" DPE with polished lip. In my opinion, the best looking wheels I've ever seen and as you say, they look really great on a W210! But they are a h*ll to keep clean

xlr8tin

Great pictures! Thanks

patrick_y

Looks like a great trip with a great itinerary filled with landmarks of interest to car fans such as ourselves.

What kind of appointments do you need to make in order to get into the AMG factory?

I sincerely hope you didn't travel alone, good trips are meant to be enjoyed with friends and family.

4000 Km, how many days did you take?

ABALONE

This might sound weird, but I didn't make any appointments with AMG before I went of as it was a spontaneous trip by a spontaneous guy like me . And when I came there, they told me that they didn't have any guided tours for tourists like me. Tourists where asked to visit the other AMG places they had in Stuttgart and another place that I don't remember it's name on. But for me it doesn't matter, I would have made a trip down there even if I before had found out they didn't allow people in the factory. It was a big experience just to be in Affalterbach and to see the factory.

I've actually spent the last 10 years of travelling with friends and my ex girlfriend, but since we broke up a while ago, I really enjoyed doing this trip all by myself No one who told me nothing about everything, "you are going to fast" I need to pee" "I'm hungry"... etc etc

I did the trip in four days. Quite much driving, but thats what I like! If I had gone with someone it would probably have taken a week or so, nothing bad with that, but like I said, this time I enjoyed being alone.

And off the record, those Danish girls has to be the most beautiful ones in the world with their incredible eyes, our Swedish blonds will have to find them self as runner ups from now on IMHO In other words, another good reason to go visit Kleemann

thebenzbar

Care to put it on record... as in pics? ...with the Benz , of course...

Ben'z

maxwerks

Wait a Minute.......
You took the picture of the speedometer yourself while driving 220KM/hr?? That is stability my friend!!!!LOL, I hope your camera is one with an LCD viewfinder!
Great pictures, and writeup ...and great car, thank you for sharing!
Cheers
Max

SleepersRock

+1000.

I also loved how the KMs were ticking up like seconds on a clock during the vid! Pretty sweet Abalone!

45acp

Awsome trip/pics and a definite thanks for sharing!

I would love to go on a drive/trip by myself, it must of felt great to clear your head (and engine)

MrMotul

Looks like a great trip, Id be happy to follow up in my own car next year, maybe we can all get something together, 5-10 Cars, through Europe, Who Knows, I ll be up for it, Anybody else?

Regards,

Terry,

Eurosport

great pix, seems like you had a good time during the trip.
definitely a must do one day

ABALONE

Count me in But next year I might be taking aprox 120+ extra horses with me to the Autobahn I might have some things in sight

ABALONE

Top secret pics

michakaveli

Awesome photos!

ABALONE

Ok, here are some pics before we went out to the Benz

Posing



On the way to the Benz



And a close up if you missed some parts




Ok Ok Ok, these girls are not from Denmark, they are from Sweden,and they basically suck compared to the Danish girls, I promise

thebenzbar

You are the
I'm jealous!

magellan

Nice pics, I sure you had fun.