Brabus 7.3S

Based on the Mercedes-Benz W140, this is an utterly superb find. Quite phenomenal. There's a lot of fascination with the current SL63/65 AMGs, but this old dog would piss all over the younger pups. Fridges, fax machines, picnic tables, all storming along at 200mph on the autobahn.

The W140 is a huge car. It is so very well engineered, the era of Benz overengineering in fact, that for Brabus to get this leviathan to scramble up to 60mph in 4.7 seconds, would have required superlative feats of tweaking, tuning....I'd imagine it would have cost as much as an CLK AMG Black and back in those days, 100k wouldn't buy you a flat on the outskirts of town. It would have bought four of them. A 7.3 V12 caressed to offer over 580 brake. Notice well the obliquely angled exhausts. A gem.

1 of 2 in the country I understand.

PS: A loyal reader of this site has got in touch and asked if certain pics that he had were interesting to me. I'm flattered that I'm considered an arbiter of what is a worthy, so thank you. He's asked if I could place them for him and now here they are.