Attended this weekend's Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace as press and spent a long time admiring this stunning 1955 Coupe (on Monaco plates, naturally).
In 1954 Pininfarina wrote to Mercedes asking for a chassis on which to build a pillarless coupe. They cautiously agreed and...
Made an interesting discovery today.
Anyone ever come across this?
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1964 Mercedes 230 SL Pininfarina coupe, page 2 of 2
Which reminds me, anyone agree that the R170 SLK is more of a "spiritual" successor to the pagoda SL than any SL version that followed it?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mercedes-SL-AMG-Pininfarina-Prototype_W0QQitemZ330294650013QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item330294650013&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
Not sure myself?