The Gullwing Legacy Continues Exploring the Mercedes-Benz SL300's Impact

The 300SL Gullwing Coupes by Mercedes-Benz, which stands as one of most memorable coupes of the fifties. This benchmark for supercars in the 1950s has become the blueprint of automotive design today – and now HYPEBEAST gets behind the wheel. A start-to-finish complete “body-off” ground up nuts and bolts restoration including all the mechanicals of a 1955 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing. 1400 gullwing coupes and 1858 roadsters. Around 40% of these are in ... Vintage Mercedes-Benz to end of 1976 · Home · About Us · Terms of Use ... Introduced in 1954, the idea behind this watered-down W194 Grand Prix car can be attributed to New York Mercedes distributor Max Hoffman, Daimler-Benz's ... This pair of Mercedes 300SLs, one a Gullwing coupe and the other a Roadster, have been in the same family ownership for 60 years after originally being ... The oddball door design, an engineering necessity borne of the 300 SL's racing roots, gave the car its official-unofficial name: “Gullwing.” ... The Mercedes Benz 300 SL comes from the W194 version, a racing car produced in 1952 that allowed for the revival of the German automaker thanks to a ... The 3.0-liter, single overhead cam straight-six, with its Bosch mechanical direct injection, feels marvelously responsive and wonderfully ... The upside of having a 34-gallon tank: you can drive hard for hundreds of miles—the 300SL averages about 22 miles per gallon. The downside: each ...