No farewell forever - Mercedes 300 SL (R107)
Sometimes it's really interesting to look into the past. In 1989, the well-known German motoring journalist Fritz B. Busch (who died in 2010) drove one of the last Mercedes-Benz 300 SLs, also known as the R107.
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In his report in Motor-Revue (1989), he was enthusiastic: "... The in-line six-cylinder engine had barely got beyond a whisper. It turns 2000 revs into 90 in fifth gear, making every bird on the roadside sing louder ...". But the following passage is particularly interesting: "... and before the door could even fall into the lock, I heard the girl ask: 'What do you think - will it be a classic car one day? I was not unprepared. It was the question that my neighbor had already asked me, and my friends, and a parking attendant, a dozen unknown pedestrians and my wife Liane. It was the question that was in the air. So I twirled the ignition key a few times around my index finger, smiled at the exceptionally pretty girl and anticipated the answer with a weighty nod of my head. 'There's no doubt about it,' I said, 'it's going to be one, because it only has two seats, a canvas top, more than two dozen meters of chrome and it's a Mercedes. In addition, there are several kilograms of chrome-plated fittings, carved from solid wood, and let's not forget that quarter square meter in the cockpit that looks like burl wood. One day, people will kneel before it as if it had double doors."
Well, 21 years have passed since then, the R107 has long since become a classic, but people still don't kneel down in front of it - there were probably just too many of these cars built for that. But who knows, maybe things will look different in another 20 years ...
An earlier article dealt with the question of whether modern cars (from 1980 onwards) are even suitable as collectors' vehicles/vintage cars
