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Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing 1956

General description : Happy Holidays! 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing: Life-Long Black-Plate California Car out of 5 Decade OwnershipMake your holiday dreams come true with this 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. A life-long black-plate California car with matching numbers that's been under the same ownership since the early 1970's. Silver with a gorgeous plaid interior. This beautiful example retains its original engine and it runs and drives excellent. Offered publicly for the first time in 5 decades. A beautiful driver quality Gullwing that's in excellent condition throughout. Originally born in rare and desirable DB 50 white with red leather interior. You don't often find a car that hasn't been publicly offered in 50 years.  Mercedes-Benz returned to post-war competition in 1952, fielding two of its new 300SL (W194) sports cars in the Mille Miglia. The pair finished a creditable second and fourth overall in this most difficult of events and this promising start was followed up by a win in the challenging Carrera Panamericana. The works first raced the 300SL (Sport Leicht) in open form, but for the Le Mans 24-Hour Race in June a trio of gullwing™-doored coup©s was entered. High sills were a feature of the multi-tubular spaceframe chassis, and while access was not a problem of the open car, the coup© bodywork required innovative thinking - hence the gullwing doors. Karl Kling and Hans Klenk duly brought their Silver Arrow™ home in first place and the 300SL was on its way to becoming part of motor sporting legend.Launched in 1954, the production 300SL retained the spaceframe chassis and lightweight aluminium-alloy bodywork of the W194 racer while its mechanical underpinnings, like the latter™s, owed much to the contemporary Mercedes-Benz 300 luxury saloon. A 2,996cc overhead-camshaft inline six, the 300SL™s engine was canted at 45 degrees to achieve a low bonnet line, and produced 215bhp using Bosch mechanical fuel injection. A four-speed, all-synchromesh manual gearbox transmitted power to the hypoid bevel rear axle. Its racing parentage notwithstanding, the 300SL remains a thoroughly practical car, as civilised in city traffic as it is exhilarating on the autostrada. By the time 300SL Coup© production ceased in 1957, some 1,400 examples had found customers.  Rare and most sought-after, the 300SL Gullwing is one of the best automotive investments one can make and this particular example is not to be overlooked.Life-Long Black-Plate California Car Out of 50 Year OwnershipRetaining its Matching Numbers EngineOriginally Born in Rare and Desirable DB 50 White Gorgeous Plaid Red InteriorOffered publicly for the first time in 5 decadesBeautiful Example and Excellent DriverIconic Gullwing and a Superb Investment Price: $1,750,000

1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing is listed for sale on ClassicDigest in New York by Gullwing Motor Cars for $1750000.

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