Many people ask us about our favorite cars, and so we’ve decided to put together a “Dream Garage.” It will be a recurring feature here on The Smoking Tire, as we continue to add our favorite cars to this never expanding list. Today, we start the list with a matching pair of vintage Mercedes racing cars, and if we’re talking about vintage Benzo’s, you only need to know two letters: SL.
The Mercedes SL’s of the 1950′s and early 1960′s are some of the most influential sports cars in history, and as good as they look on the road, they look even better in race trim. At the San Clemente, CA car show yesterday, there was plenty of the requisite 60′s muscle cars, so many so that I thought the whole show would be a wash of American boredom. Until I came upon a row of seven Mercedes SL’s, including 3 Gullwings. Now we’re getting somewhere. The matching pair in question includes a white 300SL Gullwing sporting the number 71 and several windshield tech stickers from the Monterey Historics and Rallye Monte Carlo. Good stuff indeed. Two cars down, I found a red 190SL roadster, similarly prepped and tech’ed for competition, except featuring my favorite red/black color combination and a menacing blacked grill. Bonus points for the “picnic basket” interior in both cars.
Welcome, matching Benzes, to The Smoking Tire Dream Garage.
Suggestions for more dream cars?
Mclaren F1 GTR
Hmm….Favorite dream car? well as much as I like the ultra exotic stuff, you really can't drive them because of how expensive they are. My dream car would be something more usuable. I'm thinking a 1966 big block corvette. The '66 is my personal favorite because its got the legendary 427 but its cheaper than the '67. Plus the '67 has a fake hood scoop and no matter how cool it looks, its still just a fake hood scoop.