This post is an adaptation that was written for those who enjoy auto enthusiasm smell of burning gasoline, pure hydrocarbon, and care little about their impact on the atmosphere. On the contrary, where the exhaust gases are burned their eyes, their immediate reaction is a smile in the corner of the mouth. So, friend’s green, electric cars and zero emissions do not get me wrong, I recommend no further.
The second part of the life of this Mercedes – Benz AMG Car started on a typical Sunday of an American family in Chicago, USA, the mother yelling at the kids for being late for the game of soccer varsity team, something twenty minutes, enough them to leave the technical furious and not accept the delay, starting the match with two players less important
Frustrated by failure and morning fearing the face of disapproval and scolding wife for him , father, have been partially responsible for not taking them on time , drove on the way back home more slowly than usual , wondering what to say to ease the situation .
While going looking around, he saw a beautiful specimen of black Mercedes convertible in the window of a used dealer of the brand. Caught his attention the fact that the car be much older than the typical semi-new inhabiting these showcases.
The details were adding up and you confusing the head. A black and without external chrome Mercedes , year 1987 , huge 19-inch wheels , unusual for a car this year , ultra-low profile tires , front baffle , side skirts and appliqués , in short , while the combination of these items appeared to be extremely tasteful , nothing will be said factory originals . Instead, a sophisticated tuning, but well before it become fashionable, as if the meteor had left the film set of “Fast and Furious,” two years before they started shooting the first film in the series, things wacky. .. Wackier yet because the car was already 12 years of life rotated slightly and very well maintained.
Mercedes SL same time, worldly convertible
The children had fun watching others patiently Mercedes Store, new, could not understand why his father had settled in that old copy. Nothing said that the car was already 12 years old, the vinyl roof smelled new, there was also a hardtop , which is a hard top , no hazard or mark on his painting , caramel color leather interior , brand new, flawless , everything in perfect operation. Verbal information from the seller did not stop.
Well before the boys got tired of waiting, Mr. Hofmann closed the deal that Mercedes SL66 AMG would go to garage them. The next few hours they reserved their moments of tension: how to explain to his wife that instead of the two talented Hofmann’s they had triumphed at the football game of the school, not only do they even entered the field, but also brought his father, proud of a Mercedes 12 years, demoted, with strange noise in the exhaust and rare?
The children were tasked to take the hardtop to the garage, quietly not saying anything, and save it in a corner that their mother did not dare to visit, while the father would try to explain to his wife what had happened. But we know that several wrong assumptions lead to failure. While Mr. Hoffmann was heading to the front door, the mother ran towards the boys, wondering how he had been anxious the game and saw them carrying that strange black piece. Asked what it was and heard sound and stereo ” is a hardtop Mercedes, Mom, we never saw? “. Well, not all of Hofmann family gave their warmest welcome to the black convertible…
SL66 AMG, the engine also emblem the inconspicuous black color
On the black market, this is it! The legends say that in Canada. The official arrival gave up in 1993, through a C-Class C36 AMG modified to model, but these black LS out there for six years before. The EPA ( Environmental Protection Agency ) and CARB ( board of the California air resources ) bodies already rehearsed restrict exhaust emissions from vehicles , the first laws stipulating stricter parameters to exhaust gases came in earnest in 1990 and 1991 respectively, least three years after he joined AMG in American lands .
This leads us to believe that the Germans stood to move the engine with total freedom, no strings attached, abused their creations. Picking up a block of cast iron V-8 5.6 liter increased the diameter of the cylinders to reach 6.6 liters. The class enjoyed the combustion, the injectors, so carefully drilled through sophisticated processes EDM with precision ten-thousandth of a millimeter in Bosch, received the visit of powdery intruder drills, increasing the original holes, the more appropriate term after this transformation would call them “eaters ” . If the staff of the EPA and CARB dared to test the emissions of an engine in the dynamometer, your eyes would burn, would leave the room coughing when not reading expensive equipment. Perfect for a bolides of evil done to scare owners of Ferrari and Porsche, this SL66 AMG would have to live long years in the wilderness. But it was quite cool when it got the Mercedes dealership, waiting for his second owner.
Nothing chrome – anticipating the “Black Series “of some decades later
In the 1980s, the oil crisis will cool, but left traces that lingered more than logic and common sense allow. In the U.S., politicians are to go ahead with the Clean Air Act and became effective new laws restricting the fuel consumption of vehicles. Unfortunately they did the worst possible way and the whole industry has adapted to these times.
The 200 hp, worldly power, present in almost every car the middle class family, went to the top segment turned exception, its owners seen as criminals. To get an idea, the icon of American sports car, the Corvette, whose most powerful version of the 2nd generation exceeded the 400 hp before the bad joke of the owners of OPEC, the 3rd developed meager 223 hp, almost half.
Since 1985, manufacturers have decided to be more daring and address the political and the restrictive laws of automotive pleasure and in 1987 Chevrolet launched a special version of the Corvette since 4th generation, allusive to pace the Indy -car engine 350 cid small block, two turbo and 348 hp. Months later became special factory version, but could be considered normal production. Only this Mercedes AMG SL Black, V – 8 6.6 -L Compressor has close to 500 hp … more powerful than the legendary Ferrari F40 478 hp released the same year. It is easy to see that this Mercedes represented at the time.
Having entered the black market importers forgot to put the bumpers anti – damage in small bumps, aesthetic anomaly that politicians were responsible for creating. Cars of the decade could not crack flashlights or headlamps in collisions up to 8 km / h. Manufacturers, of course, inlaid lanterns and brightly illuminating surfaces and created projections on the front of the motor. This Mercedes nor learned, was with its European bumpers even.
A typical SL sold in the U.S. at the time, repair the front bumper and headlights
The relationship with Mercedes AMG was gaining new chapters. Close cooperation in 1998 Daimler – Benz acquires majority stake in the shares of AMG then totals the purchase 100 % of its shares. For one, the cars “tuned “now receive the same official technical treatment of Mercedes brand, not bad.
The first model “cooperated ” a C36 AMG , was producing 1,000 units in three years , an average of one car per day , transformed the ancient workshops Affartelbach , with just over 300 employees . This black convertible SL66 AMG is just before; cars of that era were made with great care, perfection, and works of art built by craftsmen. The vehicles were completely removed after they arrived from the factory and extensively modified. A business performance, changes focused on the power train, brakes and suspensions. The client wanted to dictate the way your vehicle, you were adding personalization details, each specimen was very exclusive. This AMG appears to be unique; there is no record that there was another 6.6 -L engine. Your compressor was common to his brothers, the engine does not.
The AMG today produces about 25,000 special and exclusive vehicles per year, averaging 100 per day (there are 250 business days in the year). Can you call any of them single?
