An incredible 90 meters of 25 pieces of chromoly tubing went into its construction by a company called Lockid in Germany and it’s a very specialized, very high-tech job it has to be FIA-approved, so it wasn’t something Reto could do himself. The first tangible pieces of the project came together in the form of the roll cage, as it’s both the safety cell and what everything else is mounted to. The design process was taken on by another good friend-an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening as he commuted to and from work on the train each day. This meant that with additional CAD files for the gearbox, paddle shift gear selectors, and the engine, very accurate renderings could be made of the interior and exterior elements. Normally this is something kept more or less top-secret, but a friend from back in his university days now works in the engineering department and managed to pull a few strings. It wasn’t just the metal body he got from the factory though, as Reto also managed to procure a DVD full of CAD files. A bodyshell was ordered from the factory, but nothing else, as for such a hyper-focused hillclimber there is not much use for anything found on the road-going version of this car. As he needed a small current-model car with two doors to carry out his new vision, Reto he chose the SLK over the bigger and heavier C-Class coupe.
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