Wow, you sold the Gullwing? Or the collector wouldn’t take the package without it?
Jay Leno has a car collection. I have a small gun collection. Takes up far less space but unlike Jay I’m sure I’m on some gubmint s***list.
A friend wants my old 450SE. He can have it if he moves it & promises not to part it out.
Back in the mid-70s, the 300SL Gullwing and 300 SLR (Roadster Convertible) were not very collectible, but fun to drive and definitely head-turners.
Mine were original paint and mechanicals, except for the mechanical fuel injection, which was a pain in the ass to find someone to rebuild.
I had to fly-in an older German mechanic from Jacksonville, put him up in a hotel, have his complete tool chests and FI parts trucked-in, to get the FIs rebuilt on the Gullwing and SLR.
Just too much finicky stuff on those cars, and parts were hard to locate. Even ‘repops’ weren’t being produced in any quantity, until the late 80s/early-90s. I had to have original body pieces, and good metal reworking shops were hard to find.
Collectors were, back then, into Porsches and Ferraris, not MBs. Tough market.