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Build your own SLR from scratch - pic heavy

billywhiz

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As old as the internet but fair play to the builder :thumb: For anyone thats not seen this it's quite interesting

Built in Poland so no real write up etc as to what was done - just pics

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I think this has been posted on this forum a few times. What people have to bear in mind is that this replica was based on the concept SLR pictures and before any SLRs were actually built!
 
Thx Shude :O)

more details on this : Done in 2002 I believe

Here is a rough translation/interpretation of most of the answers to questions that people had in the original forum.


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Like I said before but nobody believed me, here are the first pics of the first SLR in Poland. My buddy Robert built the first replica of this car, he put in over 2 years of daily hard work

Tak jak juz kiedys pisalem, ale nikt nie chcial mi uwierzyc, wiec prezentuje zdjecia pierwszego Mercedesa SLR w Polsce.
Premiera tego auta odbedzie sie dopiero za rok, ale moj kolega Robert zrobil pierwsza replike tego auta. Wlozyl w to auto ponad 2 lata codziennej ciezkiej pracy.
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It's all custom, it used to be a Mercedes 500 SEC from 1988, the car is not aluminium, but some parts are.

wszystko handwerk
byl to mercedes 500 SEC z roku 1988
samochod jest ze stali, nie z aluminium, ale niektore czesci nadwozia ma z aluminium

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The proportions are the same to the centimeter of the original. Robert was at the showing of the car and measured everything. It only looks smaller on some of the pictures.

proporcje nie sa inne, sa co do centymetra identyczne z oryginalem
Robert byl wtedy na wystawie, gdzie stal ten prototyp i mierzyl wszystko............ na tych zdjeciach tylko tak wyglada jakby byl mniejszy

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Some guy says the only thing that I would change is to pain the rear lights red like the original
Homeboy replies with, the lights in the original are white also, they turn red when the handbrake is applied. The car is metal with a reinforced floor. During testing someone mentioned that it's better and stiffer than an original benz.

Jest cudowny, i jedyne co ja bym w nim zmienil to pomalowal tylne lampy na czerwono - jak w oryginale
lampy w oryginale tez sa biale, swieca sie na czerwono jak jest hamulec wcisniety
baza to Mercedes 500 SEC z silnikiem 279 KM
auto jest z blachy i ma bardzo umocniona podloge, przy badaniach facet w warsztacie powiedzial, ze jest lepszy i sztywniejszy niz oryginalny mercedes.
autko jest perfekcyjnie wykonane
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The door handles are from a Barchetty and the engine cover form a S4000 CDI
klamki sa od barchetty, a pokrywa od S400 CDI
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Sql Wrote:
I wonder where he got those lamps from

Maciek
they were hand made a formed in a firm that specializes in custom work. The molds are already done, so you can make more since the molds are there The windows were also custom made, it was hard to make the back and side windows
 
Ooops just saw this about this car :

The guy made a terrible mistake. He took the replica to an auto show where MB was going to present the real SLR. He had the car under a sheet of cloth and presented the car outside of the autoshow. The presenter for MB saw what happened and thought he was fired and was not informed. The guy made a call to the headquarter about getting fired and was quite upset. That's when MB learned that someone had created a replica of the SLR. The guy was being sued for patent infringement.
 
Ooops just saw this about this car :

The guy made a terrible mistake. He took the replica to an auto show where MB was going to present the real SLR. He had the car under a sheet of cloth and presented the car outside of the autoshow. The presenter for MB saw what happened and thought he was fired and was not informed. The guy made a call to the headquarter about getting fired and was quite upset. That's when MB learned that someone had created a replica of the SLR. The guy was being sued for patent infringement.[/QUOTE]

What a great shame - whatever your view of the idea/representation, it's a lot of hard work and enthusiasm to have squashed by the big boy corporate MB machine.
 

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