San Francisco's Academy of Art is auctioning off its vast collection of classic cars. Many of the cars are examples of prewar coachbuilding—beautiful, but perhaps not particularly relevant to ...

The 300SL was the first production car to feature fuel injection Being designed for long trips, Mercedes-Benz fitted the Gullwing with a 34-gallon tank The steering wheel was engineered to fold ...

This beat-up old Mercedes 300SL Gullwing is part of Jay Leno's own collection. After recovering it from the desert, Jay and his team are giving it a little TLC in an effort to bring it back to life.

Not everything from the collection is priced out of reach, with over 100 lots meaning plenty of variety. The only constant in art is change. After all, style, design, and technique are constantly ...

Yes, you'll probably have to pony up well over $1 million for the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing that's on offer, but there's also a perfectly restored MGB GT Special in a fetching shade of green ...

Instead the ‘gullwing’ design was created ... at Le Mans and on the Carrera Panamericana. Point proven, Mercedes retired the 300SL at the end of the year to concentrate on developing a ...

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Mercedes-Benz started building the 300 SL Gullwing in 1954. It was a mesmerizing model that could by no means go under the radar. Once those gullwing doors opened, every head turned to look at it.

It was American importer Maz Hoffman who suggested to Mercedes-Benz that a convertible version of the 300SL Gullwing would prove popular among buyers on his side of the Atlantic, and so it proved.

With its tubular chassis, direct-injection six-cylinder engine with dry sump lubrication, finned Alfin brakes, independent suspension and streamlined body, the Mercedes 300 SL had its origins in ...

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