SL abomination
 

My apologies to anyone who has seen this before but try this

http://www.motorcities.com/contents/01BMC270545282.html

Is this an abomination or am I just being picky?:eek: Bear

That's mad bling bling.

$275,000??? Did they forget to put a decimal point in front of the 2?

I have seen this before and I am pretty sure it used to be owned by a member of the Rat Pack. I want to say Sammy Davis Jr, but it might have been Dean Martin.

Prototype my a$$!!!

With an OEM interior...it looks like a body shop creation for a celebrity in Las Vegas...with more $$$ than taste!

No way Mercedes-Benz would have released anything of such garage-shop quality fabrication as a prototype!

I guess because it is (was) owned by Wayne Newton that it's worth so much $$$$.

If I were going to acquire a celebrity MB, it would be Hitler's Mercedes!

It looks like a ................YUGO on steriods!!

:D :D

DEFINITELY more $$$ than taste...that thing is horrendous! Certainly looks like a car that a Vegas entertainer would drive! ;)

I would like to have that giant grille emblem to mount on my wall, though! :)


Mike

After seeing that, those Hondas that are all dresed up do not so bad!!

$275,000 for this piece of junk? Only Wayne Newton has such poor taste. Hope he did not pay $275K for it. If he did, boy he is more stupid than I thought.

I think I'm going to peuke:o

Now I remember where I've seen something like it before.We have backstreet customizers over here whose combination of angle grinders,welders,beer and no sense of taste produce some sorry looking cars!!;) Bear

Pretty da@# Ugly and what's with the weird etchings on the door handles ???

The engine looks okay though, maybe it's just bad case of Nevada skin cancer ;)

Thanks for posting that link, I haven't had a good laugh all day up until now!

You mean ya'll don't like it? Goh I am joining another board!:p

later,

CHILL OUT
 

Hey I can identify with that car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







Mine has a Chrysler A/C servo also!!!!!:o


666

Those look to be Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the form of a Cartouche, a persons name.

I think it is meant to be like a Sarcophagus. Who else would be seen in it?

Thanks John,

I guessed that they were hieroglyphics, I just couldn't remember the spelling at the moment. I didn't have a clue what it meant though, is a cartouche like the signet mark of royalty? It's still weird!

Rgds, Ed

"Mr. Las Vegas" can keep it! It's a good thing that it's a one of a kind! FOX

Hi Ed:

Well, it has been almost 35 years since my college anthro class gave us a quick intro to hieroglyphs, but we had to do a glyph greeting card as an assignment, so some of it stuck. The Cartouche was the underlined rounded off rectangle surrounding symbols to designate a name, usually for royalty. This site
http://touregypt.net/ename/
gives you a tool to see your name, while this one gives the approximate alphabet:
http://members.aol.com/egyptnew/hiero.html
As an example, I scanned the card I gave my wife (She has never thrown anything away!).


http://www.warewolf.net/jelliott/Cartouche.jpg

It translates reading down from the top left, near as I can remember, as:
Long life and prosperity on the occasion of the 25th birthday to Leise (cartouche, with female symbol for feminine name, Lion for L sound, 2 feathers for hard I, horizontal line with 2 small circles for ES, 1 feather for UH, pronounced as 'Liza') ;
Next column, top right
Drinker of wine, seeker of gold (we used to pan gold in N Calif during the summer), and principle wife (caught grief on that one, I did!) of the house Elliott.

Symbols changed over 3000 years of use to become more stylized, less time consuming I suppose. Now the world knows everyting I do (probably 1/2 wrong) about the Cartouche! Open to corrections at any time. :)

JCE,

Very cool stuff, man!

Mike

Bill have you had any luck yet?you should go straight to it by clicking on the link.You have just gotta see it,the designer should have been taken out and flogged!!!

I saw the heiroglyphics..........I think they spell SPHINCTER!:confused: :D :D

Italian bodywork???It looks more like the work of that great designer George Barris after a bad trip on acid.Old Wayne can keep it ,maybe they'll bury him in it:D