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(from DaimlerChrysler Press Release) Eternal youth is a miracle bestowed on only a small number of cars, and the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL coupe is one of this elite group. The Stuttgart-based brand unveiled its new sports car in February 1954 at the International Motor Sports Show in New York, and in so doing lit the fuse for an icon of the automotive world. With its flat, graceful body, the 300 SL had lost nothing of its freshness even as the millennium drew to a close and was voted �Sports car of the Century� in 1999. �Gullwing� doors provided that essential touch of inspiration, opening up towards the sky to reveal a tightly sculptured interior. The history of the 300 SL is inextricably linked with the life of an influential admirer. American importer Maximilian E. Hoffman it was who urged Mercedes-Benz to build a road car in the image of its racing coupe, the start of production in 1954 providing a sweet fruit for his endeavors. The assembly lines may have waved goodbye to the last of the only 1,400 units of the 300 SL coupe ever made in 1957, but the spirit of this extraordinary car most certainly lives on.
Former First Student (Springfield Public Schools) #MB-80 (051117).
Powertrain: 6.0L PowerStroke V-8+TorqShift 5R-110W.
German[?] etched bkplate with initials "MB" under a crown and old shelfmark in ink "E. Z3".
Bodleian Library, Vet. B1 f.70:
Eusebius bp. of Caesarea, Lhistoire ecclesiastique, Claude de Seyssel transl., (Anuers, 1533).
See Bodleian Library catalogue Vet. B1 f.70.