1955 Mercedes Benz 300SL

This is a photograph that I took at the Christie’s International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It’s a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a car that was produced from 1954 to 1963 and was a development of the W194 that won the 1952 Le Mans 24 Hour race. Its distinguishing feature was the gull-wing doors, and it was powered by the 2,996cc straight-6 M198 engine with Bosch fuel injection.

Mercedes-Benz 300SL

I took this photograph at the Doune Motor Museum which we visited when on a family holiday in Scotland in August 1996.

It's a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL, and the board in front of the car reads:

1957 Mercedes Benz 300SL

A car which has been in the one family

since new. Brought over from Germany

and run for short periods in this country.

It has clocked up only 28,500 ml since

new and still retains its original set of

tyres.

The Mercedes-Benz 300SL produced from 1954 to 1963 and was a development of the W194 that won the 1952 Le Mans 24 Hour race. Its distinguishing feature was the gull-wing doors, and it was powered by the 2,996cc straight-6 M198 engine with Bosch fuel injection.

Mercedes Benz 300SL

I saw this car recently in Hyde outside a Garage/MoT Test Centre.

When people mention the Mercedes Benz 300SL I immediately think of the Gullwing W198 model produced between 1954 and 1963 with the straight-6 2,996cc M198 engine. This, though, is the R107/SL model that Mercedes Benz made from 1985 and 1989 and has the straight-6 2,962cc M103 engine.

The registration number starts with 'F' and was therefore originally issued to a car first registered between 1 August 1967 and 31 July 1968.

Billund Motor Museum (3)

On 18 May 2016 and 26 June 2016 I showed some of the photographs that I took of the cars when I visited the Billund Motor Museum in August 1992. Here are the rest of the photographs I took that day.

1952 EMW 340 Sedan.

1955 Mercedes Benz 300SL

1953 Hudson Hornet Saloon

1953 Mercedes Benz 300S

A Trabant 601 - mainly remembered as the car used by thousands of East Germans to reach West Germany via Czechoslovakia or Hungary just prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.