I have seen a couple Matadors with creases in the hoods because of that.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve MacSween" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Vega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought a Matador was a Hornet coupe. In "Man with a Golden Gun",
didn't
Bond and the redneck sheriff chase Scaramanga and Tattoo in a Hornet,
with
Scaramanga driving a Matador which converted into an airplane?
That was the Matator Coupe (Scaramanga), which gained some notoriety as
possibly the first mass-production car that became a common insurance
write-off due to the exhorbitant price of one part: the huge hood, with
its
scalloped shells around the tops of the headlights.
Within a few years of the model's debut, adjusters were choking on the
(IIRC) $1200 price tag for a hood. Pretty horrifying, given that back then
they probably sold for what, 8 grand?
Wasn't there also some semi-urban-legend about those, along the lines that
the early cars shipped with insufficient bracing on the underside of the
hood, and as a result could be bent in two by slamming the hood too hard?
Ii always wanted one.
Mac
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