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To celebrate the racing and rally pedigree of its predecessors, power was a particular focus. A 32-valve, 5.0 litre, dual-cam V8 with 322bhp would be offered to those looking to achieve 0 - 60 seconds in less than six seconds. But in true SL fashion, lightness was never a priority… This is why the car maybe never saw a WRC stage or track. 2.
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The Mercedes-Benz 500 SL Rally (R 107) was one of four vehicles prepared for the 1981 rally season. The car sports an uprated 320 hp V8 engine and a drive axle that had a differential lock with 80 percent locking effect that allows for some nifty drift angles. Weight reduction also featured heavily in the car's design.
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The Mercedes-Benz Museum brings the rally variant R107 based on the Mercedes-Benz 500 SL Roadster to the Californian desert and impressively demonstrates the.
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JOIN US ON THE 2023 300 SL CLASSIC DATES October 22, 2023 to October 27, 2023 including arrival and departure dates LOCATION Bend, OR LODGING Sunriver Resort ROUTE PLAN Loops each day SIZE The Classic is limited to 50 cars. All Mercedes-Benz 300SL Coupes and Roadsters are eligible to participate REGISTRATION Open on April 1, 2023.
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The Mercedes R107 SL - Top 50 Facts This year, the most popular Mercedes R107 of them all celebrates five-decades at the top of the sports-luxury pile. To commemorate this golden milestone, we explore 50 lesser-known details about this perennially popular and classy drop-top.
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Classic Mercedes SL Rally Car C107 124 SLC | 0-60 in 5.9 Sec | 255 BHP Dimond Blue / SLC Wet, dirty roads, mud, dust and snow… Not exactly the natural habitat of a well preened R107 Mercedes SL, but for international endurance racing, a Mercedes SL rally car is be the perfect contender.
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Project Hertz started life as a 1973 350 SL - one of the first 20,000 R107 SLs produced and a particularly unique example to be found left on the roads, as it is finished in Icon Gold (419) - a colour that only existed for approximately seven years. Paired with a Bamboo MB Tex (167), this is very much a Saturday Night Fever colour.
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Mike is the head of the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center in Irvine, California, which owns the car, and I'm his guest at the second annual Mercedes 300 SL Classic Rally, a gathering of.
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Mercedes-Benz' prolific engineer, Erich Waxenberger, poses recently with the 500SL he created for the 1981 World Championship Rally season. We see the '80s era BBS wheels, standard bumpers perhaps in aluminum and massive lamps for high speed night stages. Rocker and side moldings have been removed as has the production car's shallow front.
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This R107 Mercedes-Benz SL Is a Tribute to an Unlikely Rally Car See how this vintage Benz, built for blasting through the forest, looks when it does just that. By Brendan McAleer Published:.
1963 MercedesBenz 230 SL Rallye Is Past Perfect Rewind Review
Back in the day it was a modern rally machine with a big 5.0-liter V8, and hot shoe Walter Rorhl behind the wheel, but today it is a look back at the wild and exciting racing history of Mercedes-Benz in the sexiest package imaginable.
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The SLC has a longer wheelbase than the SL, which is clear when seen in profile The BMW 3.0 CSL is the example that springs most readily to mind; the road cars were (necessarily) watered-down versions of what the factory was racing in Group 2 and, like many such stripped-back road-racers, they were not a very easy sell in period.
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29. May 1980. Erich Waxenberger today with the Mercedes R107 500SL Rally The car had initially 305 hp and although this was later upgraded to 329 hp, the big coupe was too heavy and too long for such kind of activities. A lighter alternative was needed. In comes for the 1981 world rally series the Mercedes R107 500SL.
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A group Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwings gather at the Mille Miglia Mercedes-Benz For this year's rally, which will take place between June 11 to 14, Mercedes-Benz Classic is offering up.
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Mercedes-Benz SL, a car that's somehow managed to be undeniably beautiful in every single iteration. (OK, maybe not so much the sixth-gen car that.
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