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Originally Posted by DenverBrit
It was an E Bay orphan.  |
Superb machine. One of my uncles was an MB SL kind of guy. He had a 190SL, 230SL. I always liked the styling of the SL's.
The baddest SL of all was this, the 300SL. The 300SL won LeMans in 1954 I believe it was. There's still quite a few of them on the road, most were wrecked. The insurance is astronomical:
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That's a 190SL on the right.
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I was actually gonna buy one for $110k in 1999, but couldn't swing the deal. Long story, but I'll just get pissed off all over again if I tell it.