I notice the lights on top of the front fenders on the restored car are not
the same as in the other photos of allegedly the same car.
RLE
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] 500K
E M wrote:
Before starting it, hope you filled it with Mobil 1 and changed all the
fuses/ ;-)
Naw, diesel-rated Delvac 1300 from evil Wal-Mart. I'm just going to
change
LarryT wrote:
Hi Tom,
BTW, When did you come to own such a beauty?Have you been working on
it for a long time or is it a new project? What's the general condition of
the car? From the photo I saw of the front of the car it sure looks like a
beauty!
I certainly don't own the car
Jeff Zedic wrote:
I must have missed the background story on this carany chance for a
repeat? Absolutely gorgeous!
I don't know too much of the history of the car. It was a basket-case
Cabriolet B in 1996, and emerged as a perfect Special Roadster in 2001.
It has been sitting in a
Fmiser wrote:
I get to St. Louis rather frequently. What part of the Greater
St. Louis area are you? Or the car?
I'm in the ghetto in the City; the car is in Chesterfield.
I generally carry a couple high-grade microphones, a USB audio
interface, and a laptop, so a quality audio recording
OK Don wrote:
Possibly, but you usually see the intake and exhaust on opposite sides
of the head with dual cams, ans these are on the same side.
The M24 is plain old OHV. If you wanted overhead cams, you had to buy a
Duesenberg. The normally aspirated J made 265hp from 6.8L and the
E M wrote:
Before starting it, hope you filled it with Mobil 1 and changed all the
fuses/ ;-)
Naw, diesel-rated Delvac 1300 from evil Wal-Mart. I'm just going to
change it in a couple of miles anyway.
Tom
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Fmiser wrote:
To bad YouTube clobbers the video and audio quality...
I'd sure be interested in a good audio recording - especially
including the kompressor!
Your in the St. Louis area, right? Might be able to work
something out.
The original video is here:
Fmiser wrote:
To bad YouTube clobbers the video and audio quality...
I'd sure be interested in a good audio recording - especially
including the kompressor!
Your in the St. Louis area, right? Might be able to work
something out.
The original video is here:
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 500K
LarryT wrote:
Naturally we want to hear about the drive!! BTW, did you make a
recording
of the engine running? Never heard one -
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com
Naturally we want to hear about the drive!! BTW, did you
make a recording of the engine running? Never heard one -
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_pAtav8bw
For all the noise it makes, it doesn't go over 2000 rpm in the
video and the kompressor doesn't engage.
Tom
Possibly, but you usually see the intake and exhaust on opposite sides
of the head with dual cams, ans these are on the same side.
Tom - what metal is the firewall made from? Sure looks like new - how
did that happen?
Do you have before pictures?
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Subject: [MBZ] 500K
http://thomas.savage.org/500k/
Got it running today but can't drive
http://thomas.savage.org/500k/
Got it running today but can't drive it until the salt
subsides :(
Tom
Sweet!
But those lights sure have an ugly green tint...
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Fmiser wrote:
But those lights sure have an ugly green tint...
Mitch wrote:
You're just jealous because your headlamps don't have big
three pointed stars molded into the glass. ;-)
*sigh*
Too true.
But I was talking about the _room_ lights, not the car
headlights, having an ugly
I was admiring those headlights too and the molded in Star. Geez, I'd hate
to catch a stone with one of those!
Ed
300E
On 15/02/2008, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fmiser wrote:
But those lights sure have an ugly green tint...
You're just jealous because your headlamps don't
Fmiser wrote:
But those lights sure have an ugly green tint...
You're just jealous because your headlamps don't have big three pointed
stars molded into the glass. ;-)
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The whole car is awesome!
It looks like they used the same rubber flex disk at the ends of the
drive shafts. What year is the car (1937?) ?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Zeitgeist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm mesmerized by the backlit gauges in that mother-of-pearl dash--just FN
dreamy
Just lovely. So tell me, where do you park it at night, when you're not
around? You know, should someone want to borrow it. ;-) hee hee
Ed
300E
On 15/02/2008, tom savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LarryT wrote:
Naturally we want to hear about the drive!! BTW, did you make a
recording
I must have missed the background story on this carany chance for a
repeat? Absolutely gorgeous!
Does it always have so much positive camber? Scary!
Also, what's the other oldie behind the 201?
Jeff Zedic
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Before starting it, hope you filled it with Mobil 1 and changed all the
fuses/ ;-)
Ed
300E
On 15/02/2008, tom savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LarryT wrote:
Naturally we want to hear about the drive!! BTW, did you make a
recording
of the engine running? Never heard one -
Here you
LarryT wrote:
Naturally we want to hear about the drive!! BTW, did you make a recording
of the engine running? Never heard one -
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_pAtav8bw
For all the noise it makes, it doesn't go over 2000 rpm in the video and
the kompressor doesn't engage.
That is SWEET! Overhead cam I suppose? I love long straight engines --
don't know why though.
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_pAtav8bw
For all the noise it makes, it doesn't go over 2000 rpm in the video and
the kompressor doesn't engage.
--
OK Don, KD5NRO
Norman, OK
I have heard that the supercharger engagement was quite dramatic --
it was electrically switched just like the kickdown switch. 98 to
137 hp at the click of a switch had to be fun.
My mechanic friend's stepfather aquired Rommel's staff car in the
late 40's as a junker, but it ran long
OK Don wrote:
The whole car is awesome!
It looks like they used the same rubber flex disk at the ends of the
drive shafts. What year is the car (1937?) ?
1935. The flex discs are a little strange. They're really big and
pretty soft and compliant. They seem way too fragile to hold up, but I
Probably dual overhead cams, shaft driven.
Peter
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Got it running today but can't drive it until the salt subsides :(
Tom
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Yummy, yummy, yummy, what more can be said. :-) Kinda like that W140 in the
background too.
Ed
300E
On 14/02/2008, tom savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://thomas.savage.org/500k/
Got it running today but can't drive it until the salt subsides :(
Tom
tom savage wrote:
http://thomas.savage.org/500k/
Got it running today but can't drive it until the salt subsides :(
Cool! Didja make that from a FiberFab kit?
Did you use the leftover paint on the W140, it looks like it's the
same color?
OK, this question is more serious:
What's the
Wow! I thought that 500K was referring to the mileage on one of your cars.
There aren't too many 500K's around! What size engine does it have (500
mean 5.0 liter?).
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 267Kmi+, Ursula
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