Handbuilt Mercedes SLR

Alain Vanhollebeke · 05-18-03, 04:23 PM

I know this is off topic, as it is not a GT40 replica......
....BUT I think it is worth taking a look at, as someone has put an enormous amount of work into this.

see the pics on this page web page

MK -IV J6 · 05-19-03, 11:18 AM

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!

gt40ford@juno.com · 05-19-03, 11:35 AM

Alain,

Jim said it best...amazing! Thanks for the chronological photos. If I remember right, that car was in 1955 and undefeated that year (please correct me if I'm wrong on on this).

Have fun!

John

Bill Bayard · 05-19-03, 11:44 AM

Someone finally DID make chicken salad out

of chicken $#!T.

I wonder how many hours to go from Step 1

to the finished product?

My hat's off to the builder! Amazing work!

MK -IV J6 · 05-19-03, 12:02 PM

John
The one he replicated is the current model.
Best
Jim

Alain Vanhollebeke · 05-19-03, 11:05 PM

I think the very first version of thew SLR wasa in 53 or 54. Being a Mercedes guy, I should know this stuff, but I've always had a tough time with remembering event dates.

I do believe that 55 was the year of the big accident which caused MBZ to withdraw from competing again until the mid eighties.

gt40ford@juno.com · 05-20-03, 01:59 AM

Jim,

Thanks. I thought it looked kind of streamlined as compared to the one I read about a long time ago.

Have fun!

John

norman falkiner · 05-20-03, 02:04 AM

I think Stirling Moss and Dennis Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia in a 300SLR in 1955, closer to a gullwing than this new car. Regards