Sec coupe development video

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grober

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Quite nice video at 480p on the development of the w126 SEC coupes. Alas in German of course. :( Can't remember if I have posted this before or not.:eek:
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That is the shortened version - I used to have a print of the full film on 16mm .

The sequence where Karl Kling was driving it on the test track was much longer and showed more 4 wheel drifts plus swerving wildly from lane to lane ; he then parked it on an uneven surface with diagonally opposite wheels on 'humps' and the other two down in holes , then demonstrated the doors opening and closing perfectly with no roof in place .

I also loved the bit where the gent parked it in the street to have a crowd form around it - I remember parking my Ponton outside the George Hotel in Edinburgh some years ago and returning a few minutes later to find a busload of German tourists crowding round it - one even asked me to name my price !
 
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I remember parking my Ponton outside the George Hotel in Edinburgh some years ago and returning a few minutes later to find a busload of German tourists crowding round it - one even asked me to name my price !

Perhaps they weren't referring to the car...;)
 
Awesome, I understood all of that! didn't think I remembered that much.
 

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