[W126 Coupe] That was supposed to be.....History lesson on AMG specifications please...!

[Jonathan]

Renntech didn't come until the demise of AMG NA.  Namely, once Hartmut 
was done in Westmont, IL he went down to FL and opened up Renntech.

I was quoting tuners of the same general/1980's time period.

Jonathan

Kelly Frink wrote:

> Jonathan

> How about Rentec as a tuner

>

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> Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] That was supposed to be.....History lesson on AMG

> specifications please...!

>

> As jay mentioned, the VIN/Chassis number stayed the same.  AMG would 

> stamp some of their own #'s into the quad cam/32V engines and 

> occasionally mount up body tags but that's about it.  We have a full two 

> full on AMG Hammers in at the moment and aside from the Obvious mods 

> there isn't a single # & or body plaque on the entire car to alert you 

> to it's AMG-ness.

>

> When you purchased a Mercedes you would send it off to AMG just like any 

> other tuner, ie Koenig, Lorinser, Brabus, Carlson, Carat Duchatalet, 

> SGS...is all I can think of off the top of my head this morning.

>

> It is difficult to tell @ times if a car was fiddled on by AMG/an AMG 

> approved installer w/o documentation.   However, the more options 

> installed the greater the chance of the car being a Genuine as opposed 

> to a reproduction.  Not many people are swapping in interiors, 32V 

> engines, GT diff's, suspension, body kit etc, etc..

>

> AMG would do basically what ever their clients were looking for...the 

> limiting factor was how many zero's they were willing to add to the check!

>

> Jonathan

>

>

>   



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