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    You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!

    Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend

    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: $57,500 For A 20,000-Mile 1987 AMG Hammer?

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    Image of PhineasNumshun PhineasNumshun
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Funny enough that I did realize it converts to 6.3 but the naming scheme of that era of car would dictate 383 being the more seemingly appropriate (we were planning on badging the car as a 383E) it was not until the W124 E60 that the naming schemes started changing and if you ever see the car, it desperately tries to hide power.

    http://lovelyschool.net/carsandcoffee/main.php/v/xapexi_002/Cars+and+Coffee+12-27-2008_125.jpg.html

    (It has different headlights now)
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    dr.chophoppers coz mr. wont cut it promoted this comment Murilee Martin approved this comment PhineasNumshun was starred PhineasNumshun was unstarred
    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    09/22/09

    @PhineasNumshun: 630E. Simple as that. And all you need is one 300E 2.6 badge to cannibalize.
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    Image of Spinnetti Spinnetti
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Prepare to meet your Nemesis! (I hope)... My LS400 is still an auto, but I hope I can bring you a good fight next year (our Celica was just .5 sec faster on fast lap, but we raced pretty close on Sunday). Anybody know anybody to do a cheap cage near Cinci Oh?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Awesome job on the top. So the theme is "Son of a Blitzen 722"? We should help them think of something better better because of course this bent Bentz will be back.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    09/20/09

    @Novaload: I'm thinking German taxi or German cop car. Die Gebrüder Blues has a nice ring to it...

    Sie sind auf einer Mission von Gott.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    09/20/09

    @Novaload: You don't need a theme when the car itself is this great.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Am 5' 10", 'bout.

    Have sawzall.

    Have 1995 W124 sedan.

    Have beer/liquor store nearby.

    Presto! Weekend project.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    We kept looking at this car all weekend, saying to ourselves "is that roof _chopped_?" Sure enough, when we got close enough to look, it was. Damn. Good show. Car sounded mean as hell, too. Course I imagine it'd have to fairly LOUD and HOT inside, with that exhaust setup!
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    Image of seatbelt123 seatbelt123
    09/20/09

    @mechimike:

    Yes, this was one of the three best sounding cars on the track. The other two were the Fiero and the LTD powered LS1 (I think it was an LTD?).

    Searching my videos to see if I have any good recordings of it.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    09/20/09

    @seatbelt123: I always thought our dual-exhaust equipped Amazon sounded pretty good, but compared to everything else on the track, you could barely hear our car.
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    Image of ShachiLawliphile ShachiLawliphile
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    Well... My father and I already built pretty much the same thing as a daily driver. A W124 260E with a 383 Chevy (in the neighborhood of 550hp) with a 700R-4. We've taken it to Cars and Coffee quite a few times and it always draws a good size crowd and it eats super cars for lunch. So we call it the 383E Sledgehammer. I like to think it's built in a rather Jalopnik sleeper fashion. You can find some pretty good pictures of it on the Cars and Coffee website from 12-27-08.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    09/20/09

    @ShachiLawliphile: A few of us Jalop vets met you at C & C back on March 7th. Love your car.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    This makes the Hammers and 500Es of the world seem dainty by comparison.

    I didn't think that was even possible.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    That is astonishingly badass.
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    Image of skitter skitter
    09/19/09

    In reply to You Too Can Build A Chopped, V8-Powered W124 Benz For Just 500 Bucks!
    I was just convincing myself not to get too ambitious with a LeMons car, and this gets posted: an engine swapped, chopped, genuine $500 contender.
    ...
    You're an enabler.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/19/09

    @skitter: Hah! Murilee's not an enabler, he's the pusherman, the dealer, the little devil on your shoulder giving you bad ideas!
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    07/23/09

    In reply to Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend
    Oooh, it looks pretty damn good in that last pic!

    Oh wait...
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    07/23/09

    In reply to Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend
    The horror. The horror.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    07/23/09

    In reply to Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend
    I didn't like the 124 when it arrived back in the mid-80's...the tail lights/trunk looked 'wrong'.

    I now own one...and can't stand what the new ones look like.

    Jesus. I've been an old man since I was about 18.

    However. This monstrosity, as much as I want to live-and-let-live...to each his own...etcetera...I just can't stomach.

    Kill it with a car-cuber, after it's been shredded...but I wan't the original six-spoke wheels shipped to me. I don't think those were OEM, but they'll do.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    07/23/09

    In reply to Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend

    Clearly inspired by one of nature's less handsome creatures:
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    07/23/09

    In reply to Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend
    I wonder if they still put Rolls Royce front ends on Volkswagens, too?
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    07/23/09

    In reply to Mercedes Benz Continues Gaudy Russian Customization Trend
    Go hug your kids.
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