The Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing is a rare enough car, as there were only 3,258 examples ever built. Of those, only 1,400 were coupes. So, when you start talking about special edition models, you are getting into some of the rarest cars in the world.
When the SL300 was busy kicking ass at venues like the 24 Hours of N�rburgring and 24 Hours of Le Mans, it was not the standard road-going model that you saw. In fact, the car you saw boasted a completely different body. All of the road-going cars, prior to the car?s retirement from racing boasted a steel body and the racing models featured a lighter allot body.
After the 300SL?s retirement from racing, the alloy body became a 5,000 Deutsche Marks option on the already pricey base 300SL. Because of this massive markup, only 29 models were ever built and sold to the general public, thus making it one of the rarest Mercedes-Benz?s available today.
To read more about the 300SL Alloy Gullwing, click past the jump.
Mercedes-Benz 300SL Alloy Gullwing originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 24 October 2012 11:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/mercedes/1955-mercedes-benz-300sl-alloy-gullwing-ar136556.html
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