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Are you are thinking of an SL55 to raise your aggression Levels ;)
 

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wouldnt touch a flood damaged car with a bargepole..... never the same... will rust out even quicker too!!!:lol:
 

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wouldnt touch a flood damaged car with a bargepole..... never the same... will rust out even quicker too!!!:lol:

Actually the worst is the water damage to the wiring connectors,all of the signal wires, that is the CAN and wake up carry no current at all and a very long job to clean all that up, as you say Paul never the same
 
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Are you are thinking of an SL55 to raise your aggression Levels ;)

Think I have been put off an AMG for life... I am too nice.. Wouldn't want to change :p
 

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you could always just get a AMG Badge:D

He has the AMG body kit on that car of his,,, he could add the badge and two double exhaust trims and no one would be any the wiser
 
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An SL500 AMG ? Is that not an SL55?
 
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I saw one the other day badged just like that and it didnt look right.... I seriously thought the SL500 AMG was the SL55 ? Am I wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_SL-Class#AMG
 
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I saw one the other day badged just like that and it didnt look right.... I seriously thought the SL500 AMG was the SL55 ? Am I wrong?

Indeed that is correct, I cannot recall any 55 badges
 

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Saw my first Russian Mercedes in town yesterday: he was having a hard time adapting to French parking habits. :D

Couldn't quite make out the badge (he wouldn't keep still for long enough), but it was either SL555 or SL55S.

(I know nothing of these super-car hieroglyphs :( )
 

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Indeed that is correct, I cannot recall any 55 badges

Just for the record :)

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Thank you very much for that Aitch55 Nice car you have there :D
 
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So what is an SL500 with an AMG badge? Real or fake?
 

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So what is an SL500 with an AMG badge? Real or fake?

Well I am sure that I saw some in the early days,,, but I was very wrong, the first SL sales book that I have shows it as a SL55, then no such thing as a SL500 AMG :D
 
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So now I need to buy an SL55 badge AND an AMG badge and sort out the exhausts? Lol ... I like being an SL500 I think ;)
 

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So now I need to buy an SL55 badge AND an AMG badge and sort out the exhausts? Lol ... I like being an SL500 I think ;)

Plus the 2 badges on the front wings,,,be happy you have a good looking car there, and it goes fast enough, if you put the badges on it would need more Fuel to go with them ;)
 

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