Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing, 1956, mit Sidepipes und Rudge Wheels, Göttlicher Sound!

yes hello good morning dear friends today from a Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing I say every child knows it is the legendary super sports vehicle from the 50s of which only 1,400 vehicles were built so 1480 approximately and we have a restored car here with all options and matching numbers let's drive it now it 's fortunately dry so things have gone up and up over the years and the car will also remain legendary and you tell each other a little more about the whole thing now we've already warmed up a b

it because of that we're going to start right now, so yes, this is the absolute super sports car, we were built from 1954 to 1957, we have a 1956 model year here and such a car has a top speed of 260 kilometers per hour, so you can really say the cars were incredibly fast and of course that's why that this drum brakes he also dangerous so really had to se now we're going to drive a little longer he has 11 liters of engine oil and up to 11 liters of engine oil warm up that takes around 20 minutes

after the summer but I've already let it run a bit so the car has been restored the California by Scott Groundfor, the I know we have already purchased cars from the Mercedes specialist who does a very good job the car has now been in Germany for about 15 years he used to go to the USA everything you can see on the car here the exterior color that is countless hardly metallic or the cloth seats here, which are rare Checkered blue cloth that is all absolutely original has been restored twice but

in the condition in which it was delivered to Florida at the time, the car has always been in Florida and then, as I said, came to California after a long life behind it and has been restored from it that is a good address then you could also look then the car comes here has the beautiful or original instruments here, such a car naturally makes a lot of noise that was actually on my racing car and that is a racing car construction the car lies on a lattice tube arm had 215 hp with 3 l cubic cap

acity and runs say you have a top speed of 260 kilometers per hour so you really need it a good motorway where the straight-ahead driving behavior and you have to drive very, very carefully I kept such a car from Saarbrücken to Bremen you drove it so I can tell you that these seven eight or seven hours I was really exhausted yes the story started with the car in 1952, Daimler Benz built a racing car and was able to take part in my Mille mega and we also got really good prices with the car and th

ere was the famous Max Hoffmann, who was the general importer who said we needed a car like that for the street and then they discussed with your Benz and in the end they decided okay who n he also take 1000 units from us but make a series car out of it and so the world-famous geil came about because of the 300 SL Mercedes uh Max Hoffmann really took these 1000 cars off that also had the background when he started production in 1954 on August 54th the 55 cars are almost all from the USA and at t

hat time also went over it and that is then later the car here in the 1966 car so the market also revs that a pure racing engine with petrol injection that revs up to 6000 revolutions and I would say up to 4000 it starts quite well but four from 4000 now really forward the car is now being handed over so it was owned for 15 years now the owner brought the Florida car dealership from California and he is now being handed over from a beautiful collection of old people we have I didn't get to know

a very interesting man, so if you buy a vehicle from us then we always bring the previous owner and the new one The owner is a very exciting man and it's a beautiful car, the great thing about the car is that it has an original rudge lock and that makes a car like this really very valuable, so there are many today who copy these wheel locks, but that's half the fun there whatever he has here real wheel locks were always on there there is a book from 1978 about all owners and all chassis numbers

are listed and there you can see it was set up and delivered with this specification and that makes the car very exciting so we will trade it today depending on the condition between 1.4 and 2 million euros you just have to see that my good car gets it but they are all valuable so the main thing is you can get flügeljürer otherwise we'll have a look here but the oil is still not at temperature and it's really thundering Window says goodbye for a moment, shit yes, that was just such a small exper

ience with us the greatest things happen on our test drives here at the front the windows are locked they can be taken out and if they are not locked then he just flies the pane like that away that would be what happened just now we have it fixed now everything is fine yes by the way also a nice end adjuster window you have to know that a gullwing gets relatively warm, there is no other way, but here comes nice cooling and there should even be gullwings in the air conditioning system that is if

you want to drive the mille billion or such an event maybe not quite wrong but has to once you get used to it shifts gears every gearbox is different every car is different he had four gears a reverse gearbox and you can already see here at the front the second goes up to 120 the third goes up to 180 and with the open end up to 270 in the 50s that was absolutely non-existent plus ultra and there were hardly any routes where you could drive that and uh, since you also took part in the Mille Migli

a back then, you can do that today too, so if you have the appropriate connection, this car drove the Miglia, so not the car now but this model then you can also take part in the Mille Miglia with the gullwing, I find that very interesting yes that is our gullwing which you can see very nicely, these are the Rudge fasteners in front, we have them in chrome, they are usually painted on the inside, ours is chrome-plated, the owner thought it was just great, it's also a bit of an American taste, th

e car is a bit Americanized, but as I said it is fully restored and this blue interior what you can see is the delivery condition which I think is great these are these great blue fabric seats that are totally in today and much more sought after and in demand than the leather seats I think it's great and that's the original fabric from back then So that's how it was delivered, then today you might get a few explanations here about the dashboard here in front you have the rev counter that goes up

to 6000, as I said, you can leave it alone, the engine is very revving, then the tachometer up to 270 here in front is the oil pressure Incidentally, then refuels 100 liters of tank consumption in the car about 15 to 20 liters here No, the oil temperature is important in the car because then the oil circuit has a very, very large one for 11 parents, so it has to be really warm first and then he could move the car forward or else the engine would break down and the front is the temperature gauge

for the water, then we have it here a chocolate moment no that's not the train chook is here no that the shoe when you start 300 SL always start a bit with the stick and also here at the front with the petrol pump you can hear it howling that he needs and you have to dose it very sensitively and drive back so that it doesn't suck off with the 300 it's always such an easy problem because please be careful here's the ignition lock so you start it is there immediately the VDO clock is also nice an

d original by the way and here in front the famous 300 SL sign that's it 3 liter machine is 2996 cubic and 250 hp is a car which is relatively loud but an absolute sports car and if you think about it because then the second world war of 19 39 to 45 and what you then achieved right after the war that was a milestone, it's an absolute super sports car, well, now that we've accelerated a few meters here, the Mercedes was just here at the Classic Center and there we are technical things for 30,000

euros have only been made been checked and you can tell it brakes really well as if it had disc brakes machine sounds great it pulls well shifts well so I ca n't think of anything at the moment that I could say it doesn't quite fit it's a good car runs great By the way, it's really cool, so up here is the handle to do it, it's not like doing the door like that, you always have to do it like that, those are the two wings and when you sit in them, you have the feeling you're sitting in them an air

plane here is a really, really great impression and the way he drives it is an absolute super sports car if you look over at the front you can see the two humps on the hood unfortunately there is traffic up to the no longer works and the two humps come from there because the machine is installed slightly crooked and the injection pump would otherwise have peeped out of the front of the hood, so you had to put these two on the front of the hood so that the engine had the right space and that is s

till used today by AMG from Mercedes as a design feature, whether we no longer need it today, but back then during construction it had to be built like that, yes, as I said, from 1992 from 1952, the racing cars were built, which also gained millimeters and as Max Hoffmann said makes us 1 unit since the car was actually produced and a gullwing Every child's childhood is one of the most legendary super sports cars there is and also owning such a car so if I look at the price development than I I s

tarted the business in 1986 and it costs 200,000 marks anyway and today they cost between 1.25 million euros and the prices keep going up because the 1400 that were built there are simply sold out and if you're really lucky it's a good one To get the car like him here then he is in want also always sold very very quickly you can also watch so you have to at the wing door over a There have been a lot of accident cars because of the somewhat difficult brake system, I would say, and you have to dri

ve it really well and many people simply overestimated themselves from the driving artists and then built a crash and then just a few tubular space frames were replaced that can you do it today, there are specialists like the company AK Angelina, for example in polling, or many in Stuttgart, they do it excellently, they have specialized in it, in America it's just a good name, God is great and he restored this car here yes so in my opinion it's a nice day it runs today it depends entirely on the

guest and that's just a legend you could say you drive a legend here everyone knows the car the car is a cult always quite apart from the fact that one of them really challenges him as a driver still no power steering otherwise all the electrical helpers that are in the car is simply a cult and egg A great investment, I would say 300 SL, the prices are only going up and even if they should earn money here in Germany, driving a car and surviving is the order of the day here, but the car is still

absolutely sought-after worldwide and if the shops are just like that is politically how it is in Germany right now if the business is done somewhere else it looks so easy but the value of such a car only goes up there is a limited number that is an original 33 I enjoy it everything is always great we have by the way then in 1957 that changed from 1957 onwards there was no longer a wing jürgen, it was called a roadster and he had a somewhat modified lattice tube because if you get out here that

is a problem with women, above all because the exclusion card is quite high here and that is much deeper in the Roadster, which means that you can actually get into the Roadster more easily and get out and in straight away but it was just an open car and can gullwing more so the spectacular will be a bit gone with it and of 300 there are also 1800 cars were built so there are of all three the ey that were built from 197 from 1954 to 1963 um 3,240 cars or 3250 and all These cars are super, very

stable and simply legendary, so Mercedes, ey, the brand is once again establishing its great farm after the SSK and that's why there is a whole industry today that only lives from this car because it has a great collection, actually everything has to be They say I also know a lot but most of them give their cars something special that runs really well. I can't say otherwise, it doesn't rattle or rattle, my good that you can tell that it 's technically in good shape and, as I said, the owner has

it Car just at the Mercedes gave with the high bill he is getting more and more over 4000 revolutions pictures more and more we are a bit lucky that we have an open road here and can also park a bit more precisely here because it is relatively empty and just this beautiful one Landscape where a car like that fits in, of course, and with a bit of luck we'll have 800 meters of normal 0 appearance everywhere t also the sun up here but no fog you could see that and then of course it really puts you

in a good mood to step on the gas with a car like that a lot of people just think it’s great car that’s part of life that’s freedom quite simply like that so now I’ll shoot it for a moment and show you in the engine and everything so yes Mercedes 300 SL was nice weather on a dry road by the way when I get out the steering wheel is relatively far down here I have to show you that it's only with the gullwing that you have it differently there there is a lever in front and then look here, you can e

asily get out of the ball, then it folds down there it is locked in again and here it folds down, so I can get out fairly easily, so here in front is the train Bonnet release here in front is the small hook that works too and here you can also see very good work by Scott Groundfor the car is fully restored, as I said, was now again in the C lassic center at Mercedes they checked and checked everything, but the freaks are on the lookout for the original washer fluid glass in the 300 SL, which is

often done differently here, so everything here is authentic, so this one doesn't actually have to be chrome-plated, he did it you can also reverse again but the car just looks great but what is much more important with the car it runs really well he noticed that the drives really great machine is in wonderful shape and here you can see that it is a bit higher because the machine is installed crookedly and that's why you had to make this recess on the hoods that is today an absolutely world-famo

us sign or what do you call the same e design feature yes today it is design you used to need it so you can see here in front the beading that's all wonderful in the end it's a nice job the car has the right tires on it and it runs really great a beautiful car and it is exactly as it is with the wheel locks with the checkered upholstery the fabric with the color it was delivered yes 300 SL I have sold about 50 60 vehicles in my life Gullwing and Roadster also another 50 so I know 360 A car is al

so pretty good that I always like to sell because the car is almost one of the car is simply fascinated and the great thing is when it goes up to 4000 revolutions that is only reasonably per month but then the lion roars and there was yes back then as a uh alternative vehicle in the BMW 507 of which only 250 vehicles were built it drives very differently it has 150 160 hp it does have 18 cylinders it only has six cylinders but that is a completely different car it is elegant it is comet uh komoo

t this is a real predator so you have to write the same thing about it and the car fascinates you so it definitely works for me so they are in the W agen good test drive that you can tell the machine runs flawlessly so a 300 SL has to run like this one also shifts well the clutches well I am surprised above all how good the brakes in the don’t pull to the left or right they have just that very much he does not swerve to the left or right when braking he also has a very good straight run it also

smells of petrol a bit smells a bit like smoke yes that belongs to a real car in my opinion here you just noticed how great he is starts roaring from 4000 rpm , drives super straight, whaa If you have sensitive ears, you should put a few plugs in. I recommend that you bring your enthusiasm. It is a fascinating automobile and set absolute standards at the time, so there was nothing better and nothing comparable and every child knows the whole shape of the car in 300 SL there you can ask child spe

cifically car unfortunately not Mercedes until today so this is a pure racing device we drove it about 20 km with the car can only say it runs really well so from the 100 pieces that I sold approx all in all it is one of the ten best nice car runs great yes what else is there to say if you can afford it and want to afford it you have exactly the right car here and above all in today's times it's all a bit uncertain on the financial market but here you have invested your money 100% very stably an

d very firmly and safely because there are so many window trolleys and another hint like that, an Aut o with ratchet closures, the original wheel shade also costs 200,000 euros more on delivery, so there are a few top specialists who told us that I didn’t really know myself, but a ratchet car costs 200 more than the idea if so normal 1.5 to 1.7 costs you have to say comes another 200 about on top of that on the way 70 seconds from 0 to 100 that's still good for today and with the nice warm up su

ch a good machine turned great so what joy for people on the car this is exactly the right thing again here mobile yes fascinating test drive fascinating car wish you all the best until our next film next week stay true to me your Stefan