The Untold Story of the AMG Hammer with RennTech CEO Hartmut Feyhl
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- John takes you inside RennTech's Florida based headquarters to talk to CEO Hartmut Feyhl about AMG Hammers, Pre-merger AMGs, and a bit about the history of his rise to fame in the world of Mercedes Benz Tuners.
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What an amazing piece of automotive history; this man is a legend, born in Affalterbach, AMG engineer, first AMG representative in North America. This made very happy.
Same here.
I can remember how many articles I read from Road and Track and Car and Driver about Renntech, AMG, Hammer cars... Good to see Renntech is still in business. Thank you for sharing.
One of the most underrated channels on TH-cam. Your channel should be huge.
You ain’t lying
Thank you very much!
John - our MBCA club chapter visited RennTech and it was one of the best club experiences ever. Hartmut was gracious & welcoming. I felt bad for him b/c the majority of the attendees were rich older ppl who can easily buy the latest and greatest MB product while being more interested in club lunches rather than what they were seeing there. I spoke to Hartmut about my rides (2000 E55 & 1977 450SL) & he showed me some 'really' cool stuff related to all the retro cars at the shop (customer cars, wheels, etc). I have a deeper appreciation for the mechanical upgraded RennTech & AMG cars b/c everything now is all software and intakes. It's a shame really. Hartmut had a R107 he was rebuilding with a newer engine & a few classics including a Renntech W210 430. If I had the $, I'd send both cars over for him to overhaul (try to get them as periodic as possible while adding modern improvements where it would make sense). I'm thankful he was so cool and welcoming though in regards to the W210, many of my MB mechanic friends say it's perfectly fine the way it is.
You get it , I actually built a car for Hartmut because he was doing his business, So I called him and about a month later after a couple years and I get this call and he says in his german accent is this Joohn and i'm like yeah who's this, He said Hartmut Feyel, and i went into hey buddy what is shakin' he said oh i just wanted to catch up, i had a lot of emails and wanted to see how you were doing, holy shit hartmut calls me, I'm sitting in my patio in Willows , California, bbqing and get a random call from my buddy , it was so heartwarming because he is super genuine, I am probably one of the only guys who built a race car for one of the truly famouse car builders of all time, don't get me wrong he told me what he wanted, and his crew chief was British, wow talk about arguments , it was epoch, the British buy was super arrogant and a F1 crew guy back in the day, and Hartmut is easy going, but they had epoch arguments it was classic, thank god there was no internet, the car was a World Challenge touring car, when I got there it was a tub, not even brake lines, 6 weeks to sebring, we barely made it, great times with hartmuts crew, the brothers, who I have heard are now crew chieifs in gt4, the motor biulder was awesome, all of the guys in the shop were very cordial, we did 20 hour days for 6 weeks, it really took a toll
bottom line is hartmut is Awesome
This channel is so goddamn underrated
Another Great Video John. Nice History Lesson. BTW...I am guessing Hartmut meant 300 kilometers an hour and not 300 mph . Keep up the Great Work John. Thanks for Sharing with all of us.
Amazing. Thanks for brining this to us, John. Your channel deserved a million subs!
Thank u Curated ...had waited for years to get 1st hand news on the Hammer productions.. Tqtq
You're very welcome, we had a blast hearing all this information too.
I first met Hartmut in 1985, driving a AMG 500SE, full spec, with a buffalo interior. We have been friends since then .. Hartmut and Renntech are the quintessential boutique tuner for Mercedes Benz / AMG automobiles. His attention to detail, product quality speak for themselves. Thx for the story gents !
Great Christmas Gift John, thank you! You make looking forward to 2021 so Cool with your Stories. Peace and Love to All.
I love the no music when driving. My cars do not have it. the car is talking to me, I want to hear it.
100%
@@WeAreCurated That is definitely the answer I'd expect from a professional like Mr. Feyhl! (Although secretly I was hoping he'd say "Rammstein"!😂)
Thanks John, great content as always.
Hartmut is a great guy, he treated me with such care and respect while building the early 2000s world challenge car, what a great experience I guess the only regret is when I realized no one was in the shop any more and about 20 minutes later they came in and asked me why I didn't watch the Space Shuttle launch, I have to tell you I cried jjj
Amazing story. There is so much false informations about them on internet. Danke schön for sharing
Rough qoute "What kind of music do you listen to when driving?" He ponders for a few moments, and responds "I don't listen to music when driving."😎
What an amazing history about AMG, those days were really different trying to get the 200mph barrier, the techniques especially in the aerodynamic part. Thanks for sharing this hidden and unique information, it couldn't get better for a birthday present. I've two w124, I'm a great fan of the Hammer.
Great video! Made my friday even better🤟🏻
Hammer’s and 928’s were my absolute favorite German cars when I was a teenager in the 80s. I couldn’t wait to buy Car and Driver from the store magazine rack to read the articles of the new cars. Great memories to reflect on. Thanks for sharing, very cool channel you have here. 👍👍
So cool to see this! Brings many miles of memories for sure. I was fortunate enough to co-drive with Dave Girgen to campaign his RENNTech 190E 3.6 back in the mid 90s One Lap of America. Hartmut lead the competition with his 500E test mule! Then later time-trialing against both of them in my 190E 2.5-16 Turbo EVO II clone at MBCAs StarFest in Portland, and was happy to finish a close second.
That must have been an amazing experience. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
I had a very early renntech 3.4-24v 190e custom 1 off build. Based on a 2.3-16v car.It had old school amg shocks and suspension and was a dog leg manual. I miss that car, it is on TH-cam in several vids
That car is on of my favorite that has come in the shop since I've worked there.
I remember drooling about your car years ago. Do you know where is it these days?
please do more videos with Hartmut. Even talking more technical stuff, it's great.
Such valuable insight, thanks for sharing makes me appreciate my pre merger even more!
He doesn't have the radio on when he's driving cuz the soundtrack of the engine is all the music he needs!
Bought an 2005 e55 used out of Miami. Had it delivered to Chicago and went to pick it up. Driving back into the city, I felt the coolest dude on the planet. Merging onto I355, pinned to the floor, a black Renntech e55 BLEW right me........there was new coolest guy on the planet..
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Awesome history!!!!
What a guy! I am down the Hartmut Feyhl rabbit hole
Love the era of these cars. The only "Waxenberger" mercedes that have survived is here on Finland.
This is awesome guys!! When I was in highschool, my boss at a go cart track I worked at had a renn tech Mercedes that was bullet proof. He had it made fully bulletproof during the DC sniper situation because he was worried about his family. Super rad car with a cool story! Great to watch this while it snows
wow, interesting story there, Yeah, remember that freak? he and his teenage boyfriend shot up whytes at random. and was he CIA? you bet.
@@joesmith9216 Nope just had money I’d assume it
Now I know. So much history! Such a cool dude. Damn phone! Haaa! Glad you left that in edit. Cool beans JT
He likes V8 music of course!....Great Interview!....thanks.....I have 300CE and 500SL
Man ur collection is out of this world.taste OG
This is such a good story! The narrator is not the best story teller but man this is a good piece of history ! Keep it up John, these stories make your business stand out from the others.
I have spent quite a bit of time in a custom AMG I think it was a 500SEL or some such, it didn't have badges and it was 30 yrs ago. It used to be owned by Juha Kankkunen who had it made to his spec n Germany. It was BIG but also very fast. Blue metallic. Never seen another like it, was a damn cool car.
Back in the 80s I went to an car auction in Modesto CA and there was this all white 4 dr MB 60k miles with just 'AMG' at the back. I bid on it when one asked 'What is a grey market car?' The auctioneer said don't bid on it if you don't know what a grey market car is. I won the bid for 12k to find out it used to belong to a cocaine dealer. The MB shop in San Jose CA maintained the car to tell me it was tuned as a AMG! I put it in indoor storage for 18 years in SF then took it out from storage. I sold it for only 5k to a Texas buyer in 2011 as I just tired of it! The buyer told me he has a Hammer that he likes to have that car! I am glad the car is in good hand!
More with Hartmut pls!
Was their first location on Old DIxie blvd in Palm Beach Gardens? there was a mercedes shop there. always thought it was Renntech.
Curated needs to find the Silvera Blue Countach! My childhood dream car.
That specific car is Japan today, we would love to find it.
I still have all the DuPont Registry copies from back then. I believe they covered the hand-off. It was a beauty.
Priceless content
These videos remind me of stealing The DuPont Registry when I was kid
Great Vid
Is Hammer related in any way to Bono (Lewis Hamilton race Engineer) expression "Lewis, its hammer time", normally this means Lewis has to put consecutive fastest laps.
Great back story about one of the original techs who has achieved quite a bit! Nice W124 but, I've always thought pre merger models didn't have ///AMG in the dash. If I'm wrong please correct me.
I love the Hammers, have done for many years but there is no chance in hell I could ever afford one, I have a W210 E55 estate which is the closest I could get and despite it being a bit of a dog (240,000 miles and British winter road salt are not kind) I love it and drive it t work every day.
Please don't add background music while Hartmut is speaking! I could barely hear and was struggling to understand his words!
Nice🎉
I'm sure he means KPH not MPH. Still a very cool story. When I got my CLS550 they were the first ones I called. Bye bye mustangs and camaros. Lol
Have you ever heard of the car that police couldn’t catch no matter what supercar they bought or seized.
I think there was only 6 that had left the dealership and drug dealers or traffickers had payed cash for the six that the police couldn’t stop being sold.
There was 4 sedans and 2 station wagons and they had a V6 twin turbo engine and they had lot of horsepower and also torque these cars were faster then all the Supercars available at the same time.
The police even tried to catch them in the heavily modified car they had seized and were due to be crushed and when they couldn’t catch them they got crushed then.
There’s a TH-cam video that takes you to a mechanic that has one on a hoist in the back of the workshop and it’s looked after that well he lowers it down starts it straight away and then takes the guy that was looking to find one and he got to go for a drive in it.
The car was a vaxhual vector and it they were originally Australian car but they were sent to England and then re badged and called a vachual they also did this with the Holden cars that were exported over there.
Is is a lotus Carlton/omega
You don't need music when someone is talking
You say ecspecially when the word is especially. You are an influencer, stop influencing people to say words incorrectly.
Lol.. I'll try!
Calm down camper!!
@@frankodwyer9532 no, I'm very calm. I'm doing him a favour by politely correcting him. He sells very expensive cars to a lot of well educated business people. I'd hate for them to either judge him negatively for a percieved lack of intelligence or book reading compared to them, thus empowering them. Or for him to be corrected face to face by a dick head and cause an awkward situation. There is only one right way to say it. It's better to know what that is and say that. I've heard him say it a few times and it belittles what he was talking about every time. Now it won't. Happy days.
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