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.”
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLS : Father of the Brood by Winston Goodfellow
This car is the starting point of a multi-generation automotive legend, to which 500,000 cars can trace their genes. It is the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLS and, like most of its ‘children’ — every sporting Merc that has followed — chassis 8427198118/1 is a stupendous drive…
2013 Monterey Auctions : Recap
2013 Monterey Auctions : Recap Rare Ferrari sets world record with $27.5-million sale! Click the image above to read the article Links to Full Auction Results RM Auctions Gooding & Company Bonhams Quail Lodge Cars Are Sculpted Fine Art Click the image
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2013 Monterey Auctions : Preview
2013 Monterey Auctions : Preview Gooding & Co. and RM once again headline the massive collector car auction extravaganza weekend in Monterrey! Links for auction catalogues Gooding & Company RM Mecum Russo and Steele Bonhams Quail Lodge 300 SL’s For Sale This Weekend
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1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Prototype – Vintage Project Part II
Vintage Project, Part II 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Prototype By Scott Grundfor Body Check Restoration begins with an analysis of the car, obviously easiest if it runs and is in one piece. By simply walking around a car looking at various parts, you may be able
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