Anybody tried this? - kleeman supercharging

[Jim Green]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:44:23 -0600, tom winter <tom at freeskier.com> wrote:
> on 10/13/04 4:00 PM, Ed Kellock at ekellock at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > "That's not entirely accurate"  (Independece Day)
> >
> > I'm not even sure he's ever done a second one, but there's a guy here
> > in town who had an 80q who worked for a supercharger place called
> > Rimmer.  I'm not sure if Rimmer is still in business but that doesn't
> > matter because the guy with the 80q left there, sold his 80q and
> > became a (the?) Klemann distributor for MBenz which is located here in
> > Colorado Springs.
> 
> I had the chance a few years back to drive a Benz the Kleemann guys had
> worked over. I was shooting some pictures for the short lived Benz
> enthusiast magazine called Benzo. Amazing car. I was pretty raw to the auto
> world back then (still am!), and was driving an '86 4000cs at the time. All
> of a sudden I understood what raw power was. Pretty sick stuff that they've
> got going on.


Hey, I met that guy at the strip one night this summer.  Was running a
sweet Benz and was interested in my car, I guess now I know why.

-- 
Jim Green
'89 90tq
'89 80q
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