RE: Pic of the Week: Madness in a Mercedes CLK GTR
Friday 27th January 2012
Today's POTW is a bit of a mystery. Granted, it's quite clearly a Mercedes CLK GTR road car, but the who, when, where and why of it is beyond us.
Pic of the Week: Madness in a Mercedes CLK GTR
Mystery photo reveals magnificent bravery (we think)
All we know is that it was quietly dropped onto our desk in transparency form by Classic & Sports Car mag's super-sub David Evans, who (quite rightly) thought it might be our sort of thing.
There is a smudged 'copyright Autocar' on the plastic surround, so we can assume it has something to do with them, but beyond that we know very little about it.
Other than the fact that the driver (who we think is on track at Hockenheim) is either massively brave or massively talented to perform such showboating. Or both.
Square (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone etc)
Discussion
PW said:
LotusOmega375D said:
..seconds later it was airborne and into the trees.
Oh no that was Le Mans, sorry.
Also a different car.Oh no that was Le Mans, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3rxq7U1mA
UltimaCH said:
Have seen several "factory" cars with plates starting with the LB letters, so could be one of them.
Almost certain this was featured in the Hockenheim test by M-B in Autocar back in '98. There's a two-page spread on it. Now just need it to be dug out of the mammoth Haymarket archive...
It´s the Sachs Kurve at Hockenheimring, the car is :
Hey guys, here first the information from Bonhams:
"The here offered Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR with chassis No. 2 was one of two official press cars from AMG
and therefore has certain features that only works cars were reserved for the vehicle was in July.
First time in 1997 by the license plates "LB RA 204" enrolled,
is the official sales prospectus of the CLK-GTR mapped and tested by selected car magazines.
All during the construction of the remaining vehicles introduced improvements and updates,
so among other things, shorter shifts, an optimized engine management and increased speed limits were retrofitted with this specimen
in October 1999 was the vehicle of HWA -. one of AMG's founder upright after the merger with Mercedes launched company - sold to its first and only private owner is there is a friend.
Mr. Aufrecht, who has a fondness for former factory cars and an impressive car collection.
In October of the car at HWA with the final engine specification for programmable € 66.930 has been upgraded.
The 7.3-liter is now expected to make around 700 hp, even if values of works were never published.
With a further maintenance by HWA were renews the fuel tanks, fire extinguishers and the battery, which was billed with € 36.200.
This are also documentary evidence is available.
This CLK-GTR is made up of former factory stocks in the official company colors " Silver Arrow ", painted the interior is shown in anthracite leather and the speedometer only 12.500 km.
The vehicle is in excellent condition and is offered with German registration papers."
Thus, a car ("tuned") I was already two times on the way : The red CLK-GTR 7.3 "Super Sport" I looked at HWA in Affalterbach in the spring of 2002,
a second time to me a tuned CLK-GTR met in January 2003, the photographer Iver Hansen photographed two silver-colored "tuned road versions of the Mercedes CLK (!) -GTR from the garage of a private collector "(magazine" Max ", No. 2, 16/01/2003, www.iverhansen.de )
The car, the Iver Hansen has photographed, quite small mirrors on the A ... columns, it is neither that of the red CLK-GTR with the blinkers of the press nor the clunky car that is now being offered. So it is at the Bonhams car not be photographed probably one of the two tuned CLK-GTR, the Iver Hansen. So we come with the red, with two silver and now offered to the CLK-GTR on four factory tuned cars ...
Google translation
HTH
Hey guys, here first the information from Bonhams:
"The here offered Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR with chassis No. 2 was one of two official press cars from AMG
and therefore has certain features that only works cars were reserved for the vehicle was in July.
First time in 1997 by the license plates "LB RA 204" enrolled,
is the official sales prospectus of the CLK-GTR mapped and tested by selected car magazines.
All during the construction of the remaining vehicles introduced improvements and updates,
so among other things, shorter shifts, an optimized engine management and increased speed limits were retrofitted with this specimen
in October 1999 was the vehicle of HWA -. one of AMG's founder upright after the merger with Mercedes launched company - sold to its first and only private owner is there is a friend.
Mr. Aufrecht, who has a fondness for former factory cars and an impressive car collection.
In October of the car at HWA with the final engine specification for programmable € 66.930 has been upgraded.
The 7.3-liter is now expected to make around 700 hp, even if values of works were never published.
With a further maintenance by HWA were renews the fuel tanks, fire extinguishers and the battery, which was billed with € 36.200.
This are also documentary evidence is available.
This CLK-GTR is made up of former factory stocks in the official company colors " Silver Arrow ", painted the interior is shown in anthracite leather and the speedometer only 12.500 km.
The vehicle is in excellent condition and is offered with German registration papers."
Thus, a car ("tuned") I was already two times on the way : The red CLK-GTR 7.3 "Super Sport" I looked at HWA in Affalterbach in the spring of 2002,
a second time to me a tuned CLK-GTR met in January 2003, the photographer Iver Hansen photographed two silver-colored "tuned road versions of the Mercedes CLK (!) -GTR from the garage of a private collector "(magazine" Max ", No. 2, 16/01/2003, www.iverhansen.de )
The car, the Iver Hansen has photographed, quite small mirrors on the A ... columns, it is neither that of the red CLK-GTR with the blinkers of the press nor the clunky car that is now being offered. So it is at the Bonhams car not be photographed probably one of the two tuned CLK-GTR, the Iver Hansen. So we come with the red, with two silver and now offered to the CLK-GTR on four factory tuned cars ...
Google translation
HTH
LotusOmega375D said:
PW said:
LotusOmega375D said:
..seconds later it was airborne and into the trees.
Oh no that was Le Mans, sorry.
Also a different car.Oh no that was Le Mans, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3rxq7U1mA
Car in photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_CLK_GTR
They are entirely different cars.
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