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Originally posted by ami
OK love, it says, and Im quoting .........
Sorry, but I must have looked at and listened to this clip at least 6 times by now but I cannot hear anything coming close to what you are "quoting".
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Originally posted by kemal shah
Great , does anyone know what the article is about ?
I understood the Hello bit ... 
Kemal,
it starts out with the reporter telling us that she drives the 230SL "Rallye", or Böhringer Pagode, through the vineyards to the 79 year old ex-racecar driver's home in Stuttgart-Rotenberg. When she meets up with him and his friend Wolfgang Rolli she asks Wolfgang how the name "Böhringer Pagode" came to be. He replies that the roof form designed by Bela Barenyi as a safety factor to create stiffness is reminiscent of a Japanese Pagoda. But the car was used by Eugen Böhringer in August 1963 for the Rallye "Spa-Sofia-Lüttich" and when he won the name stuck even before the car was available for sale a month later, adding in jest that this demonstrates his marketing prowess.
She then asks Boehringer, who started out as a cook by trade [and now hotel owner] , how he took up racing. He explains that already in school there were class mates who belonged to racing clubs and everybody identified with racing and wanted to be like
Caracciola, or
von Brauchitsch or
Lang.
She asks him about his most important victories and he lists: 2x Grand Prix Argentina, 1x Grand Prix Macau, then the Rallyes: 2x Acropolis, 2x Poland, 2x Germany, 2x Lüttich-Sofia-Lüttich and then a number of Touring Car races. She then asks him what was so special about the "Spa-Sofia-Lüttich" rallye and he answers, "well, first, 5500 km and 94 hours non-stop driving, and it was for the car and the team the toughest rallye I ever participated in".
After that she asks the two friends to continue the drive through the vineyards and wonders whether the 165 horsepower Pagoda is still as good as then, to which Wolfgang replies "when Eugen drives the car, he'll prove it".
Quite some accomplishments for any racecar driver!
Bob G,
Here is a nice web site about the man "who taught a fintail how to fly" (unfortunately only in German) with pictures showcasing his career:
http://www.eugen-boehringer.de/home.htmBTW, I believe Wolfgang Rolli is in charge of the Daimler Museum in Stuttgart.
Alfred
1966 blue 230SL automatic
