I was thinking Claremore to Tierra del Fuego for 2008.... Chris Hans Neureiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would we donate the cars in Panama for a "Get Ortega out of Jail" fund?
On 12/30/05, tom savage wrote: > > TimothyPilgrim wrote: > > Interested in adventure/endurance road/slightly-offroad racing like > > the annual Dakar? Ain't got the cash? Try this. Rules include no more > > than &100 (Brit lbs) for the car. > > > > http://www.plymouth-dakar.co.uk/ > > > > There are a few W123's in there if you click through the group lists > > on the left. > > Oh man, does that sound like fun! I did some poking around, and found a > nice site by a team who did it in 2003 in a w123 230TE: > http://www.infratecuk.net/plymdak/car.htm And these crazy guys actually > made it in an East German Trabant: http://www.africa.englishouse.de/ > > We should put on a North American eqivalent. As much fun as an ArcticQ > sounds, I can't help but think that a Claremore-Panama rally would be so > much more, shall we say, interesting. I nominate Deneal's car for the > St Louis team. > > Tom > > _______________________________________ > http://www.striplin.net > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > -- Hans Neureiter, Houston, TX '82 300SD, '95 E300D _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net Christopher McCann, Squier Park, Kansas City, Missouri -2005 Blue Point Siamese, "Rose" -1987 300TD, 151K, "Rotkäppchen" -1985 300SD, 210K, "Wulf" -1976 240D, ?K, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen) -1972 Jacobsen 21" Turbo Vent -1971 Case 222 Hydrive, 12HP Kohler, 38" deck, Snowcaster, "One Banger" --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 30 19:23:09 2005 Received: from mail2.mx.voyager.net ([216.93.66.206]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EsPqH-0007Ih-0q for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:23:09 +0000 Received: from voyager.net (d67.as2.sfld1.mi.core.com [209.153.159.196]) by mail2.mx.voyager.net (8.13.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id jBUJN6i6035153 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:23:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:23:00 -0500 From: Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Korean 124s X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:23:09 -0000 TimothyPilgrim wrote: > > Superformance brought back the AC Cobra Fiberglass, and they are one of dozens making kits. AFAIK, nobody other than AC ever built Cobra bodies on the original tooling. The cars Shelby America was selling in the 1990s were built from bodies that Shelby had sitting in a warehouse since 1965. The only decent aluminum replica body I've heard of was made in Poland. They did some very precise measurements of a couple of original cars and found out they were not bilaterally symmetrical, had to use a computer to make it symmetrical and base their tooling on that. IIRC, their kits were only about twice the $30k Superformance was getting at the time. Factory Five Racing had a light kit with a pretty good frame/suspension for $10k, but the bodies were stupid-light. (something like 1/8" of chopper/sprayer fiberglass) I don't know how many of the above are still in business other than Superformance, it's been about ten years since I really looked into it. If I had found a Cheetah kit for the price of FFR's Cobra, I might have bought it. (and probably found out it was as hot and uncomfortable as a 1955 gullwing)
