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PCH, Hell Uber Alles Edition: Mercedes 6.9 or BMW L7?

On Monday, we headed over to Frozen Finnish Car Hell and watched the '61 Ford Taunus wagon beat the '72 Opel Kadett in the Choose Your Eternity poll. Today we're in the mood for Very Expensive German Luxury, which is always an excellent Project Car Hell theme. You see, high-end German cars have always been chock-full of leading-edge technology, which means that the passage a decade or three can really knock down the purchase price of a nice example... well, that is, if you don't mind a car that needs some TLC!
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5:15 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,425 views, 55 comments

Latest by FuzzyPlushroom: @graverobber: I'm just gonna pretend that the BMW's dead. And that Atlanta's more than 20 hours' drive from me. more »

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Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9

Sedans haven't faired well in our Fantasy Garage. Currently, there aren't any. Once there were two (the Phaeton W12 and the Quattroporte), but you kids gave both the proverbial boot. Some might argue the Audi RS4 Avant would qualify, but this is a clear case of five doors being more equal than four. No, the only four-door we're currently packing is the Lamborghini LM002. And if that's a sedan, my aunt's an uncle. That said, I'll feel like a downright failure if we fill the Garage and it contains no sharp-dressed sedans. That's why today's nominee, the indomitable Mercedes-Benz 6.9, gets the nod. More »

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12:00 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
8,189 views, 66 comments

Latest by n/a: Got mine a couple of weeks ago...lets see? where are those turbo chargers anyways? hmmmmmm they are around here some where? ahh yes, here they are. get back to ya'll real soon!oh? and remember 'objects in the rear view mirrors more »

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Project Car Hell: '72 450SEL or '69 Corona?

As we all saw yesterday, a Wankelated Hillman Minx stomps Grandma's '71 Ford LTD in the Project Car Hell competition, with close to a 75/25 pro- (or anti-, depending on how you define the term "Project Car Hell") Minx split in the voting. Today's PCH contestants should be a bit more evenly matched in the Hell department, as we go for a couple of Axis Specials...
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5:30 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Murilee Martin
2,347 views, 43 comments

Latest by Littlebitsofpaper: The Corona parts are actually easy to find. My personal project hell - on which I'm just finishing the brakes - is a '69 Toyota Hilux (pickup). Most of the parts have been fairly easy to find. The price more »

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Benz Hell: A 6.9amino!

For those playing along at home, the Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 was the 1970s equivalent of AMG hardware. It was the company's flagship — an S-Class with firepower to match far smaller sports cars with far fewer seats. Its antecedent was the Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.3, which was a highly precise, Teutonic response to the rise of American-style muscle and cheapo gasoline. Slicing off the rear half of this 450 to approximate caminoness insults all that is good and proper with the world, likely murdering kittens and class hamsters and depriving small children of dairy products by its mere existence. To paraphrase Yoda, let this happen not. [Thanks (sort of) to Tyler for the tip.] – Mike Spinelli More »

10:32 AM on Wed Nov 1 2006
By Mike Spinelli
528 views, 7 comments

Latest by MR42HH: Another piture of the Benzomino here: http://www.mbig.de/mbignews/mn_ausdetail.php?mn_ID=154 more »