I don't know about "AutoArt" but this Maybach was on display and for sale at a dealer, RBM of Atlanta, along with many other models of various sizes and years. It is a 1/18 scale model that I got for my collection of model cars (which includes a 1/24 scale Munster Coach), all 4 doors open as well as the hood and boot lid, VERY detailed including seatbelts AND buckles. There was another Maybach, a '39 model I believe, on display also but I haven't been back up there to get it. RBM has all kinds of Mercedes items including a battery powered SL kiddie car, clothing, gadgets for your car and the desktop (the one your computer sits on ).
OH, BTW, if anyone may know the whereabouts of a 1/24 - 1/18 scale 1954-55 Cadillac Fleetwood model...... my son wants one to display with his car (a real one ) when he takes/drives it to car shows
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I believe this would be a Mayback fan, I think that you should not be hating on him and learn how to respect other people.
If he can't afford one let him think he is the shits. If that was me and you pull up to laugh and try to put a paper that reads Chrysler on my car, I would pull out my 9MM from the side of my seat and make you shit your pants.
What wizzes me off even more is those people with the fake Lambos and Ferraris. They get those kits to make it look like one, which it kinda does for those whom never seen one up close, in person, or just don't know cars. It's annoying cause they'll try to race people, lose and people think they beat a real Lambo or Ferrari. With your cheap $5k to $60k car? are you serious? stupid.
I think they should start suing those people for making the replica kits in the first place, cause it gives them a bad name.
I like them when they have good motors and chassis so they can be as good performance wise on the straights and in the turns. Theres one already here thats a diablo replica with a 850 horsepower LS-1. Its not correct in terms that its a c5 corvette but you'd never know until you saw that nice glass trunk door with a suitcase replacing the V12 inside. Its got a better suspension setup and really handles on the track. It sure sounds like a corvette though!
So how do you guys feel about de-badging? Quite a few MBs in my town with no badges at all...
I think de-badging is nice because it keeps you guessing.....and I think re-badging is even better because it keeps us laughing our heads off. at them.
I remember picking up a GTX badge that had been punched out of one when his battery pushed through his grill in a great smash. There it was sitting in the road waiting to get run over.
I bolted that GTX onto the glove-box door of my old 59 BUG way back in 1969. It looked sooo good!!
Yes I was a tad younger then but I felt it looked great and enhanced my BUG.
So,..let the posers have their fun...because so are we.
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Interesting story,
Mercedes ordered the rebadging of my 1993 600 SEC between the time it was ordered and a year later when it was delivered. The car was ordered in May of 1993 and didn't arrive until June of 1994, most likely because only 159 were sold for 1993 and because it was the first year of the V12 coupe. It arrived as an S600. A manager at the dealer told me that sometime in mid 1993, direct orders came from Stuttgart to rebadge all the existing vehicles on his lot that still had the old badges. So a 500 SEL had to be rebadged as an S500. He said they had to rebadge at least 15 cars. All my info from the owners manuals still say 600 SEC. To this day, I have never seen another car like mine with the original badging, and L.A. has more Mercedes than anywhere else I'm sure.
Would love to have that original badging and restore it to it's truly original form.
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Just the other day I came up on a Chyrsler 300 with Bently badges inside the Chrysler wings. While stopped at the light I said to the driver nice Bently and he said thanks nice Benz. Then I laughed and told him he shouild put the right badges on he isn't fooling anyone.
I actually have seen this here in Charlotte, it's pitiful the lengths some "adults" will go to appease total strangers. Also, how about the S550's with AMG badges... does the AMG wheel package make an S550 an AMG??
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