Chassis No.

CA497070



Needing little introduction, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL stands among the most highly regarded sports cars of the early postwar era.

By the 1980s, both the Gullwing Coupe and Roadster had settled into blue-chip collector territory; its values climbing to a point where owners grew wary of using their increasingly precious originals.

Anton "Tony" Ostermeier, a former Mercedes-Benz employee and 300 SL owner himself, understood that dilemma firsthand.

Ostermeier founded the Gull-Wing Car Company in Gardena, California, and over the following years produced what is widely regarded as the finest 300 SL Gullwing recreation ever built, a car precise enough that longtime Mercedes-Benz specialists have struggled to tell it apart from an original at a glance.



Ostermeier's recreations were engineered from the ground up with each car being built around a purpose-built welded square-tube steel chassis modeled after the original W198 spaceframe.

The body panels were forme...