Automobiles sur les Champs Élysées: The emblematic Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing”

Artcurial Motorcars’ Automobiles sur les Champs-Elysées sales have become highly anticipated events.

Heading the line-up this autumn will be a superb 1955 Mercedes 300 SL “Gullwing”. This wonderful example has had limited owners, and was one of the first examples to be sold new in England. In fact there is an amusing anecdote about its original purchase. Sir Jeremy Boles, a motor-racing enthusiast who was just 23 years old at the time, was in the process of ordering this car at the 1954 London Motor Show when his friend, the celebrated racing driver Mike Hawthorn, made a last-minute attempt to dissuade him from buying a non-British car! This intervention was unsuccessful however and a few weeks later, in early 1955, Jeremy Boles took delivery of his new car at Brooklands of Bond Street in London, liveried in silver grey metallic, with leather and blue-checked fabric interior.

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Exhibition by appointment

From Tuesday 1st to Thursday 3rd December 2020

Auction in Paris

Thursday 3rd December 2020 – 4pm

Auction Contact
Anne-Claire Mandine

Tél. +33 1 42 99 20 73