I actually saw a "real" 300 SL. One day in the early 70s when i came home
from school there was this strange car with a Mercedes star in the grill in
our yard. I understood it was old, probably slightly bathered and dirty, this
was in the winter. I thought it was gypsies only gypsies drove old Mercedes in those days
It was a guy that was in to Model-Ts and such that was visiting my father
I asked my father about in later years and he said it was just a used sportscar in
those days, impractical and expensive to repair. You probably had to pay money
to trade it for a Volvo Amazon
I have seen them in museums in later years
But this was a daily driver
Remember when he opened the gullwing door and flipped down the steering wheel
and the sound of the high perf six cyl when he left. It was like i had seen a UFO
