Pedal Cars at Detroit Festival
By Toy-Toys
The Stuttgart-based Mercedes-Benz Company unveiled its new sports car in February 1954 at the International Motor Sports Show in New York. With its flat, graceful body, and “gullwing doors” 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. The assembly lines may have produced the last of only 1,400 units of the 300 SL coupe ever made in 1957, but the spirit of this extraordinary car lives on.
Today it is one of the top ten collectible cars.