Comments on: The Fearsome AMG MAMPE Racing SLC

By: Fotografa

Fotografa — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:59:21 +0000

@ Richard Nohr on March 1st, 2010 12:59 am

Sorry mate, but you are wrong. they could not do time travel.

Chassis 2394 was built too late to be the one of teh original race cars.

When you say “the Factory” what do you mean? The car was an AMG car, so do you mean the Mercedes factory it originally came out of, or the AMG factory that complete the build?

The order number for that chassis was 0153111421 and the 531 in the order number shows that as Steve said, it was delivered to France, not to the AMG factory.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:54:17 +0000

http://www.slcracing.eu/ What do you think of this guys? SLC racing is alive and well today.

By: Dominik Balders

Dominik Balders — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:24:40 +0000

To my knowledge, the “Brodesser”-car has never been offered as a “real” AMG Mampe SLC. I donÂ´t remember actual wording of the advertisements, but personally I was informed, by the broker Mr. Brodesser and the actual owner/financier of the car (who happen to live in the same town as I, that the engine wasnÂ´t original, a second Mercedes race engine would be delivered with the car and it wasnÂ´t claimed for this car to be one of the actual Mampe cars. At the time I was seriously interested in the car, as the price in relation to its eligibility (Tour de France, Le Mans classic), as well as extremely low maintenance cost. Not sure if the car was actually sold.

By: Richard Nohr

Richard Nohr — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:59:06 +0000

it makes sense that AMG would have chosen the 026 car to homolgate the aluminum block the sn# were a red herring the factory did whatever it wanted in those days

By: Steve Guilford

Steve Guilford — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:40:08 +0000

Something does not quite add up.

If these AMG Mampe SLC cars were based on the 450 SLC product line, then the car offered for sale should have a VIN# starting with 107024 – not 107026. 026 is the designation for the 5.0/500 SLC.

In addition, the unit number of 2394 would roughly coincide with a 1981 500 SLC model year car. What year were the AMG Mampe cars constructed ???

The VIN number indicates that this car would have the 4spd auto transmission. Would AMG have utilized the brand new 4spd auto transmission in a racing environment – the factory used them, albeit briefly, during their rally efforts – but would AMG have used them ???

Finally, the Russian VIN decoder site shows that this car was prepared for sale in France (Monaco). If that is correct, would AMG be sourcing their cars from France ???