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1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Coupé 'Gullwing' [W198 I] 
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![1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Coupé 'Gullwing' [W198 I]](i326261.jpg)
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Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time
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◊ 2010-08-15 00:35 |
Bad guy car. |
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◊ 2010-08-15 01:47 |
Sure. Who else should drive such a car in a Soviet movie? .gif ";)") Would be interesting to know the history of this specific cr. How could a Gullwing-Mercedes came into the USSR?  |
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◊ 2010-08-15 18:37 |
Could it be the cr, which is now located as a decoration-object in the main Mercedes Benz-store in Moscow? I've passed the shop while our trip there in February 2005, and I swear, that there was a Gullwing standing there in the entrance hall. |
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◊ 2011-05-09 12:35 |
This car was purchased in 50s of state research center, located in Leningrad, to study the system of direct injection. It was later sold into private hands.In the 80s injection system was broken and 300SL was exchanged for ten years old Audi-100. Later was seen in Moscow in a terrible state.The subsequent fate is unknown. -- Last edit: 2011-05-09 12:52:08 |
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◊ 2011-05-09 12:59 |
Interesting background informations. A propos the Mercedes-store in Moscow: they had also an "Adenauer"-300 [W189] as decoration in the showroom. |
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◊ 2011-05-09 13:01 |
How about this one? /vehicle_348149-Mercedes-Benz-SEC-C126.html |
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◊ 2011-05-09 13:07 |
Disgusting pimp's and drug-dealer's-junk. Though all this "tuning"-stuff was incredible expensive back then (and pure 80ies taste), nowadays you'll push up the car's value, if you remount this plastic stuff. |
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◊ 2011-05-09 14:14 |
Thats arabian sheikh taste, i surpose. |
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◊ 2011-05-09 14:24 |
My favorite is this one Link to "1000sel.com" Ugly as sin, but red with gold trim. |
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◊ 2011-05-09 18:56 |
Reminds me of the 'Ocelot Supercat' from an episode of The New Statesman. |
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◊ 2011-11-29 19:33 |
Is this the car? Link to "www.k-report.net" |
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◊ 2016-07-02 13:31 |
Yeah. As you think, it's really the same car: http://www.anamera.com/en/detail/car/319037/index.html ? Or a lie? -- Last edit: 2016-07-02 13:31:36 |
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◊ 2018-12-08 13:18 |
Account of this car - which left Russia in the 1990s and went to Germany, now in UK with 636 UXM plates -here. "The document of ownership placed the 300SL in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, but it had apparently been there for almost its entire life. The 300SL Register noted only that it was completed on 30 July 1956 – there was no information listed about its early owners or subsequent life – but it’s thought that it went straight to Russia, making it surely the only Gullwing to do so. The first thing Evdokimov did was look up the name of the person on the SL’s document of ownership. “Quickly it became obvious that this guy was indeed a very special gentleman,” he says. “He was an aircraft engineer with multiple awards of the highest order for extraordinary achievement.” He seemed to be Alexander Mikulin, who designed Russia’s first liquid-cooled, piston aero engine, as well as the engine for its first jet airliner, the Tupolev Tu-104: “But one thing that didn’t fit – the guy was too old. When I looked up the name, his age made the whole thing lose any sense. “Then I found out that he had a son, and the son was also named Alexander. He was a skilled driver who was often called on to perform stunts in movies." One theory is that the KGB arranged for it to be imported, and it ended up at a fuel research institute in Leningrad – now St Petersburg. In its history file are notes made much later suggesting that its engine was removed in order to study Mercedes’ innovative fuel-injection system, and replaced with one from a 300 Limousine. By the time it was restored in Germany in the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, the original engine was back with the car, and it seems far more likely that the research institute simply removed the injection system itself. In 1968 it turned up in Myortvyy Sezon (Dead Season), a moodily shot, black-and-white Russian film ...It’s a typical spy thriller of the time – hepcat soundtrack, lots of smoking, laughable fight sequences – and opens with a warning from a very serious-looking old man about how evil capitalist countries such as the UK and America were working on chemical weapons. By far the best entrance is reserved for the SL, though, which comes roaring through the countryside to the accompaniment of badly dubbed engine noises, then arrives on a beach, where it performs a perfectly executed powerslide around a 1932 Lincoln." 636 UXM ✓ SORN MOT No results returned Vehicle make: MERCEDES Date of first registration: June 2005 Year of manufacture: 1955 Cylinder capacity (cc): 2975 cc Fuel type: PETROL Export marker: No Vehicle status: SORN in place Vehicle colour: SILVER |
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◊ 2021-03-06 13:06 |
Fascinating but the fact that it became a KGB lab rat doesn't really make it "made for Soviet Union". Does it  |
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◊ 2021-03-06 16:11 |
As far as I remember one of the admins marks unusual car appearances with "made for" tag. |
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◊ 2021-03-06 16:22 |
https://apotapov777.livejournal.com/390059.html : The Mercedes-Benz 300SL was the first production car in the world to have a fuel injection system instead of traditional carburetors. This was the reason why one 300SL was purchased by the Soviet Union for a detailed study of the advanced power system. It was this 300SL that was filmed in the famous Soviet movie "Off season" with Donatas Banionis in the title role. Then the car ended up in private hands - it was bought by Gennady Grushevsky, a famous Soviet powerboat racer. Once he went on a trip on the 300SL in the Soviet Union, and, as the legend says, on a deserted highway in the Karakum Desert, he broke away from the pursuit ... of a patrol helicopter of the traffic police. In the USSR, such "arts" could well turn into not only problems with the traffic police, but also conversations with the KGB ... ... - And where did you get the "300" Mercedes Gullwing, which "starred" in this film? - In Leningrad. At first he was either in the KGB, or somewhere else. Then they gave it to the automobile research institute, where someone bought it. In the end, I got the Mercedes. It was often impossible to ride on it - there were no sound-absorbing skins, and the trip turned into an execution. In short, a purely sports car with a space frame. Then it burned down and after that was no longer subject to restoration. There is another version: at the end of the 80s, the car in a state of non-running was bought for a penny (no one knew how much it cost) and then, in connection with the change of permanent residence, left for Germany. -- Last edit: 2021-03-06 16:24:13 |
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◊ 2021-03-06 22:43 |
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me but hey..  |
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◊ 2023-12-04 01:27 |
Hardly deserves the made-for-KGB ...I mean made-for-SU tag even in its "broader" sense. |
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