I was fortunate to catch up with its builder @c55.vick at a turnoff, where he popped the hood on an engine bay stuffed with 5.4 liters of Mercedes M113 V8, from the CLK 55 AMG.

Development and production of the Mercedes V-8 continued unabated through the 1980s and 1990s, a flowering family tree sprouting gas-guzzlin' greats like the supercharged 5.4-liter M113 V-8 found ...