Re: Ronin (and other good driving movies)

[Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>]

Do you by any chance know how many HP that massive V8 Mercedes puts out?
Sounds like their version of a Chevelle 454 or a Hemi Cuda...
	Fun
L8R

	Todd Phenneger
	1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
	1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
	1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
	1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
   *****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!

On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 only5kgt@uswest.net wrote:

> BTW, that "old Mercedes" was, as I first suspected, a 6.9! 417 cu in of SOHC
> German V8! That reverse burnout where we are first introduced to this beast
> on-screen is no special effect. Look at what Frankenheimer managed to
> obliterate: the three big guns of German sedans- M5, S8, and 6.9.
> I liked this symmetry and wondered if it was intentional. Each was the fastest
> sedan available when new...
> Regards,
> Rob
>