MERCEDES 300SL GULLWING!

Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing 1955 at the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart, Germany! Pristine collector car! This vintage 300 SL Gull Wing is an amazing $1 million dollar car and a serious piece of automotive history! This is one of the most expensive cars in the world. We would love to see it on Cars and Coffee! It looks great in this car museum! This was the fastest car in the world when it was designed! Now it's a beautiful vintage classic car.
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (chassis code W 198) is a two-seat sports car which was produced by Mercedes-Benz as a gullwinged coupe (1954-1957) and roadster (1957-1963). It was based on the company's 1952 racer, the W194, with mechanical direct fuel injection which boosted power almost 50 percent in its three-liter overhead camshaft straight-six engine.[ Capable of reaching a top speed of up to 263 km/h (163 mph), it was a sports car racing champion and the fastest production car of its time.
Max Hoffman, Mercedes-Benz's United States importer at the time, inspired the 300 SL and saw an American market for such a car. The company introduced the 300 SL in February 1954 at the International Motor Sports Show in New York City (instead of Europe) to get it into U.S. buyers' hands sooner.
SL is the short form for "super-light" in German (super-leicht) - Mercedes' first use of the designation, referring to the car's racing-bred light tubular-frame construction. The 300 SL was voted the "sports car of the century" in 1999.
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This is a beautiful car!!!