No matter if you’re restoring a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” from a rusted-out barn find shell, or just repairing accident damage, you want to use the best, most accurate body parts for it.

Before their average market value started circling around the $1.2 million mark, Mercedes-Benz 300SL “Gullwings” were just ordinary classic sports cars. They were used, maintained to a certain ...

Since I'm one of the few guys on TV who own old cars and enjoy restoring them, people often contact me about their car projects. Some are restorations that folks may have barely started. Others are ...

A classic Mercedes-Benz 300SL, also known as the Gullwing, was recently wrecked by a mechanic during a test drive in Baden-Wuttenberg, Germany. While we hate to break such awful news, an example of ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 4, 2013 Comment Now! An original Mercedes-Benz 300SL gullwing, similar to the one pictured above, was almost completely wrecked after a mechanic crashed the rare classic on ...

Ask any serious collector and they’ll tell you that every decade has its defining vehicles. And when it comes to sports cars made during the 1950s, few are as highly regarded as the Mercedes-Benz 300 ...

[This story first appeared in the May/June 2006 issue of MotorTrend Classic] In this business you drive countless cars, most of them interesting and many of them thrilling and some of them ...

Who says you should never meet (and drive) your heroes? Three-time Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen and I have one thing in common. And I don't mean driving talent. Obviously. No, the one thing ...

The Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing was comprehensively restored in 1999. Power comes courtesy of a 3.0-liter naturally-aspirated six-cylinder with 215 hp. A resplendent red leather interior is one of the ...