Featured Article: The Zero Mile Gullwing By Dennis Adler and Scott Grundfor
Every so often something truly amazing comes along in the automotive world. In 1954 it was the Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a sports car so strikingly advanced that it became the symbol of Mercedes’ postwar renaissance.
Among countless Americans moved by the 300SL’s design was Bob Doehler, a senior stylist at Studebaker-Packard, the South Bend, Indiana, automaker that would soon become the American distributor for Mercedes-Benz. Doehler’s position ultimately allowed him to do something that no one had ever done before- purchase a 300SL part by part!
Doehler appreciated fine automotive design, but the one he considered perfect and the most beautiful was…
