A short story about reuniting, rediscovery, and the fortuitous protection provided by a layer of golden yellow barn paint on the 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster chassis no. 198042-7500348 Written by Ken McGavin | © Copyright 2024 Highlights Chassis no. 198042-7500348 Engine no. 198980-7500338
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“Silver Dreams” The Last Vestiges of the 1955 Swedish Grand Prix
Written by Ken McGavin | © Copyright 2024 A Short Story About The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Chassis no. 198 040 55 00531 at the 1955 Swedish Grand Prix Highlights Chassis no. 198 040 55 00531 Engine no. 198 980 55 00577 Body no. 198
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Rara Avis “Rare Bird” – A Marvel of Originality
Written by Ken McGavin | © Copyright 2024 A short story about the surprising (re)discovery of originality regarding the 1963 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster chassis 198 042 10 003123 Highlights Chassis no. 198 042 10 003123 Engine no. 198 982 10 000054 Body no. 198 042
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Mom’s 220 & Dad’s 300 – An American Mercedes-Benz Story
By Drew Grundfor | January 19, 2021 Photos by Scott Grundfor Company c/o Stephen Heraldo Special thanks to Jeff Koch Sold privately and without advertisement by Scott Grundfor Company as a pair in December of 2020, we thought we’d share this unique Mercedes story of
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These cars were a mission statement:
change was coming, and coming soon
Words Richard Heseltine Photography Ted7 | June 2020, Classic & Sports Car How Ford and Ghia’s Probe concepts beckoned the future, but almost became lost to the past You cannot help but look on, moon-eyed and mouth agape. The few words that leave your lips
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David Douglas Duncan and “The Secret SLS”
Prototypes are the products of an intense automotive design process. They are ideas given physical form and meant to test the culmination of those ideas. Most serve their purpose and end as scrap or become forgotten embodiments of a larger production that ends up relegated to a warehouse collecting dust rarely, if ever, to be seen again. Occasionally one is found on flaccid tires, fading away in a dusty, shuttered garage, whereupon aficionados immediately elevate it from “ancient junk” to “treasured artifact.”