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Greg Keene?

thats him!

had his m3 csl out there, and the tow car was a porsche cayenne s turbo (had 75km on the clock). pretty funny watching that 4wd understeer around the cones when he took it out for a lap of the track

a car you would think would never make it here, Mercedes Benz Sprinter Van.......

As it started

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A bit of welding here and there with some new drivetrain pieces

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Slap on the 44's

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Add some bar work and lights

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Add some flares

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Go driving through rivers and shit :)

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Build Thread:

http://jeepmambo.blogspot.com/2009/12/merc...inch-tires.html

another van.

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anyone notice anything not quite right...?

It was built by TWR in the early 90's as a rolling testbed. It waslighter than the 220 & would hit 60 quicker! Top speed at Millbrookwas 170 mph. One lucky engineer (Patrick Walker) used to take it home at weekends for milage accumulation. The van was built to drive in citytraffic and was a very important part of the XJ220 development as theyhad the test track at Millbrook to do the high speed work but nothingwould test the car in city traffic,and Jaguar would not like to havebad press with a 220 at the side of the road, so the van was built as atest bed for every day driving in gridlock conditions. It is basicallyan XJ220 with a Transit Bodyshell stuck on top of it.

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