Original Dust Supercar

[napa68]

Originally Posted by napa68

I could spend a year just cleaning and preserving that car. I'm in love!

Originally Posted by Mr70

LOL...truer words were never spoken.

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Tim,

Only if you preserve the smell of the 70 year old leather interior.

So neat to see all the human touch on the leather from the ingress / egress over the sill to the heavy patina at the ignition key area.

Personally, I wouldn’t touch a thing.
Rare art on wheels.

I should add I'd be thrilled with the job

[markinnaples]

Tyler Hoover of Hoovie's Garage just purchased one of those a couple months ago and had Mercedes do the work to get it running again after it sat for several years, and then took it on a 1,000 jaunt with a bunch of other gullwings. He has some pretty good videos about it on YouTube.

[Chuck_Burg]

Kristoforus, St. Christopher, is on the key ring. The patron saint of travelers. A lot of German cars from this era included Kristoforus, some are just medallions on the dashboard. Cool stuff!

[useless tony]

Probably 30 years ago, I was heading up Victoria Park ave, just north of the 401 in Toronto when I pulled up beside a silver gullwing with very heavily cracked and faded paint. That was the first and only one I've seen and it was just putzing along on the street with regular traffic. Too cool

[PeteLeathersac]

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It’s been 20+ years since I’ve seen him but I knew an original Gullwing owner in Toronto who regularly drove his car, likely the one you saw Tony. Good guy, one legged S. African if anyone else knows him, probably still has the car today?

~ Pete

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[Arrowsmith]

Just an awesome car…I’d be afraid to touch it.

[60sStuff]

A couple assembly line photos.

Cool vents on the rear roof.

Looks like full upper fender protectors were being used.

[useless tony]

I've never seen pictures of the chassis used in the Gullwing ... it appears almost Maserati "birdcage"esque. Thanks for posting those

[Tenney]

https://www.artcurial.com/en/sales/6446/lots/33-a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NRm8rigC28

[60sStuff]

Tenny,

Yes, I have been in contact with Anne-Claire MANDINE since I found this auction last week. 🤣