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Only a couple of years before being acquired by Daimler AG, AMG created restomod versions of the legendary 300 SL Gullwing for the royal family of Brunei.
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Only a couple of years before being acquired by Daimler AG, AMG created restomod versions of the legendary 300 SL Gullwing for the royal family of Brunei.
In the last couple of decades, the level of appreciation for, and subsequently, the value of the legendary Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing have been on a meteoric rise. And for many collectors, adding the world’s first super car to their fleet is the ultimate goal. So it is understandable that today, altering the iconic character of a 300 SL is considered by many fans of the brand, this writer included, as blasphemy.
However, in 1997, when AMG (not owned by Mercedes-Benz a at the time) was commissioned by the royal family of Brunei to modify 11 of these classic beauties with modern performance, there wasn’t as much of a purists’ outcry against it. Partly because the 300 SL hadn’t yet reached the legendary status it holds today. And partly because the internet did not play as big of a role in the spread of information at the time.
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As evident in the photos, the beautiful body work of the 300 SL didn’t receive any alterations from the Affalterbach engineers. But plenty of performance upgrades are in play. The straight-six motor was replaced with an M119 6.0-liter AMG V8. The 380-horsepower mill is paired with a 4-speed automatic transmission, which sends the power to a transplanted R129 Mercedes SL rear diff.
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