Monterey 2016 – 300SL Lots. A packed week of auctions and events kept bidders and spectators extremely busy this year. The Monterey auctions featured nine Mercedes-Benz 300 SL lots, four gullwings and five roadsters – half of which were sold and at their lower-end estimates. Below we have put together aContinue Reading…
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The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR was based on the 1954-1955 Formula 1 Mercedes-Benz W196 race car, it used an advanced space-frame chassis...
Mercedes-Benz 300SL
Few sports cars in the history of the automobile have attained the iconic status of Mercedes-Benz’s celebrated 300 SL coupe, which combined peerless racing heritage with truly innovative design and engineering. First appearing in 1952 as the W194 sports racer, the 300 SL was intended to return Mercedes-Benz to competition relevance and was notable for its advanced lightweight space-frame chassis, and a retuned version of engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut’s inline six-cylinder engine (which was already employed in the 300 sedans). The most notable feature of Sindelfingen designer Karl Wilfert’s breathtaking coachwork was undoubtedly the roof-hinged doors, which was necessitated by the chassis’ high waist. This unique feature earned the model its eventual nickname, the “Gullwing.”
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