Rare Sight

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Not often you see one of these on the crowded streets at $400,000 plus.
Irreplaceable
Must be new down here, hasn't learned about the drivers yet.

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Looks like a old Mercedes sports car, one very similar to it was offered on a street corner in Potomac Md....ritsey hood....for ten grand, years ago.....I passed on it, because it was a rusted out POS...

What is so special about that one??

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The Mercedes-Benz 300SL was introduced in 1954 as a two-seat, closed sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. Later it was offered as an open roadster. It was the fastest production car of its day.

Built by Daimler-Benz AG and internally numbered W198, the fuel-injected road version was based (somewhat loosely) on the company's highly successful competition-only sports car of 1952, the somewhat less powerful carbureted Mercedes-Benz 300SL (W194).

The road model was suggested by Max Hoffman. Being intended for customers in the booming post-war American market it was introduced at the 1954 New York Auto Show, unlike previous models introduced at either the Frankfurt or Geneva shows. In Mercedes-Benz fashion, the "300" referred to the engine's three liter cylinder displacement. The "SL" stood for "Sport Leicht" (Sport Light).

The 300SL was best known for both its distinctive gull wing doors and being the first-ever gasoline-powered car equipped with fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber. The gull wing version was available from March 1955 to 1957. Production of the roadster ended in 1963 with the introduction of the 230SL.

(Wikipedia)
 
Yup, you right, the one I saw did have gull wing doors, the car did not fit me well being I"m too tall for most sporty cars anyway, but methinks it would have been a good investment to buy it....could have...oh well....

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meh, it's neat and all, cool technology for it's time. but i'd still take a '69 L-89 convertible any day.

CAR wise, oh hell yeh....200 grand minimum wise....wish it was mine...

even on lousey shape, rust and all....

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