Mercedes-Benz 300SL
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In August, a 1935 Duesenberg Model JN Convertible Coupe once owned by legendary Hollywood star Clark Gable crossed the block at Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach auction. Despite bids that reached $6.4 million, the price failed to meet the current owner’s reserve, and the car was not sold. Next January, Barrett-Jackson will be offering buyers a chance to acquire another one of Gable’s automobiles, this one purchased later in the actor’s life. Up for grabs is Gable’s 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe, equipped with fitted luggage, Rudge knock-off wheels...
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1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Pre-Production Gullwing: $850,000If you've got $850,000 burning a hole in your (gigantic) pocket, we'd be hard-pressed to suggest a better buy than this 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe prototype. Though the car somehow shows 73,771 miles on the odometer, it is fantastic condition, inside, outside, and underneath, with only...
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1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Barn Find
Our experience tells us that when something sounds too good to be true, it often is. Take this 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL coupe, for example: it’s only got 31,000 miles on the odometer, and is a two-owner car that’s being offered for sale on eBay. Call us paranoid, but that would be our...
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Wooden Mercedes 300SL Replica: Break Out The Furniture Polish
As manufacturing becomes ever more automated, it's much easier to appreciate the work of traditional craftsmen, slaving over blocks of wood for hours on end and producing works of art entirely by hand. It certainly makes us appreciate the work that went into this teak, full-scale 1955 Mercedes-Benz...
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Want A Replica 300SL? Tough Luck, Says Mercedes
Replicas can be a divisive topic among gearheads. Owning a replica isn't the same as owning the real thing, but it does allow people the illusion of owning their dream car--and if that dream car is incredibly rare or expensive, then a good replica can be the next best thing. If that car is the...
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1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing barn find
Proof you can still find some of the rarest of rare automobiles rotting away in a damp garage or barn somewhere is this original 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL ‘gullwing’ coupe found during an estate sale in the UK recently. The original 300SL, both in its coupe and roadster bodystyles, is...
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Movie buffs traveling to this year's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance will be in for a pleasant surprise: among all the classic rides on display will be Natalie Wood's Mercedes-Benz 300SL. The car will be one of several 300SLs on hand to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz's first Le Mans win in 1952. Unfortunately, the car doesn't look quite the way it did when Wood owned it. "She had it painted pink," said Bill Warner, founder and chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. "Pink with a lipstick-red leather interior, as if driving a 300SL around Hollywood...
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Anna Nicole Smith's Mercedes 300SL Skids Onto The Auction Block
We'd planned to write a story about Cameron Diaz being shuttled home in a black Cadillac Escalade after a late-night cuddle session with Alex Rodriguez. But as usual, C-Di and A-Rod put us to sleep, and when we woke up, our colleagues at Jalopnik had dug up something far more invigorating: news...
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Germany’s Gullwing dishes out another 300SL Gullwing replica
Last month we saw some concept sketches for a retro-designed gullwing coupe based on the original Mercedes Benz SL300 Gullwing from the 1950s. The car we’re talking about is the disturbingly cute 300 SL Panamericana from Gullwing-America. Now, we have a second custom gullwing but this time...
Alex Kaufmann
