“There’s fourteen-hundred of these. In the general scheme of things, they’re not that rare,” says Robert Webster, owner of this 1955 Mercedes 300 SL coupe. Rarity is, of course, relative. They only built 1,291 Kaisers in 1955, and most people would tell you those are pretty rare, but when you consider that unlike a mass-produced American sedan, the race-bred 300 SL with its distinctive gullwing doors, was a special car from new and survived in an accordingly large percent he’s not wrong.
Moreover, most of those survivors have at this point been restored to factory perfection or preserved in some fashion and arrested between originality and decay. Almost none of them have been modified and fewer still modified to reflect the modifications of the period when they were still popular…
