Hmm. is there a trunk triangle 5 speed club? - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

vstech · #31 02-10-2009, 12:35 AM

oh, and parking it on the side only required rotating the earth on it's side... simple!

Stevo · #32 02-10-2009, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by lutzTD

my handle is LutzTD, but I have a CD, so there is the prerequisite trunk triangle. Although the like new triangle is now sagging a bit in the florida sun. the 5 speed is on the garage floor awating the modified shifter and 300 flywheel thats out to balance. Maybe 2-3 weeks I will have the membership requirements for this ultra exclusive club. but my knob will be polished wood, as in Zebrano, so it will only be the smile that tells the tale.

Excellent, you can be the "Florida regional director", We are running a little short of members so we might have to admit people that have three legged dogs or TDs or something.

katja · #33 02-10-2009, 04:03 PM

I just had a dream the other night that I found a 70's Chevy van for sale (of all things!) with an OM617 turbo and a 5-speed for only $600 at some bizarre little auto shop at the end of a residential street. I didn't want the van but remember thinking I couldn't find a cheap Mercedes to swap the other parts into.

Back to reality, on the 5-speed, do you have to pull up on the gearshift to shift into reverse, like you do on the 4-speed? I would imagine there's some kind of lock-out to keep one from shifting from 5 to Reverse, but with many 5-speeds in other cars you don't have to pull or push anything to shift into reverse, you just shift.

Stevo · #34 02-10-2009, 04:08 PM

You push down unlike the four spds.

texasnative46 · #35 02-10-2009, 05:22 PM

lutzTD,

i know you have such a coupe (i was "jerking his chain".).

further, i believe i've commented that it was a "right purty coupe".

fyi, when i get back from a month in BRD this summer, i suspect i'll have a "manual everything" coupe, too.
(i liked the first one i saw about 20 years ago in K-town. it was EMERALD/Palomino)

AND i'm going to be looking for a W126 coupe over there as well.
(an old friend of mine who retired from the USAF near "K-town" tells me that he'll have me an AMG-modified coupe "picked out" by then. fwiw, his 540SLC is STUNNING & blazingly fast.)

yours, tn46