Team Slow
Prologue. Part 0- We need a car.
Right, you may already know who we are at this point.
Driver: Matt.S
Navigator: John.T
The car we will be taking today is the 1996 Schnell XL53 V8. The very car that the rich kid would bully you about because his (or her) parents owned an higher trim V12 version which costed 6x more with some differences. Oh and that model had a car phone as standard. On which with the V8… You pay $1400 for the car phone. Cheapest and better option was an house phone anyway. Other than the disadvantage of being unable to call from inside your car with a fancy phone, oh well it’d be obsolete years later. (30,000 for the V8, 45,400 for the V12.)
After some time scoring the online marketplaces for a car that was dependable, they stumble upon the XL53 V8
John: “So now we’ve hit jackpot?” John replies to Matt looking at the car’s listing on the computer
Matt: “Very much so, stop laughing and giggling, i can hear you, No it’s not the V12 model that barely anybody bought. It’s the better model. V8.”
John: I remember everyone at a highschool parking lot either owning one with daddy’s money, or the far more premium version.
Backstory: Ex-taxi car
Before it was sold to us, it used to be an fleet car back in the day in the Las Vegas area. You know, the same place where everyone put their gambling addiction to their misery in casinos. Then eventually look at the rabbithole they dug. But yeah thats far from the story. The company used to do research on vehicles and electronics, but then the company declared bankruptcy in 2014 and the owner just recently liquidated the entire fleet on auction. Surely the car looks like a mess after research. But most experiments on the car did not involve harming the structural integrity of the cars.
The Schnell XL53 lore
The XL-series was introduced in 1996 mostly as a business venture if luxury cars could work for the brand. The Pillarless hardtops were available on higher trim models, same with a canvas top. These were mostly prime sellers for the brand in the US, into which it was originally about to be rejected from sale in America due to disappointing sales of the LS32 sports car. But US operations said otherwise and approved of the project being sold in the US.
There’s not many differences alongside the V12 trims and V8s. Magnesium Monoblocks were an option. V12 car has Hydropneumatic suspension as standard.
Meanwhile
They take in the car to the garage where it gets some supplementary parts to aid in the adventure from Nevada to Crugandr. Oh and they go back, so reliabillity is a must to them, so it was a wiser decision to not buy the V12. Emissions of both cars is about as equivalent as a pack of a certain amount of cigarettes, but who cares. 12 hours of copious work.
Modifications:
4WD system from an old beaten up 4X4.
CB Radio from a Taxi
Kerosene
Step bars
Steel Wheels (plus tires)
ABS Delete, Back in the day nobody had ABS before it went mainstream.
The car it became.
We’ve modified it quite a bit, we also have a bit of essentials to help our car.
