At the SEMA show, a Merc 190SL was in a booth. This car, built by Randy Clark and his guys at Hot Rods and Custom Stuff in Escondido was pretty amazing.

http://www.projectrpm.com/hotrods/Me...-Bent-Unveiled

As you can read from the web page, they took a 2004 V12 Twin Turbo Merc and put the 1961 body on it....except that the new chassis was too long and too wide. Up close, the thing was darned detailed.....from 20 feet, it looked like an old Mercedes. The wheels were machined to look like the old hubcaps and the Merc tristar emblem rotated so that it stayed upright when the car was moving....high class spinners.

The bumpers, grille, door handles, tail light bezels, head light rims, etc were all machined and polished. After the SEMA show, they took it to some vintage race in Vegas....and ran the thing around the track in traffic.

Neat car.....must have cost at least two PowerBall winning tickets.

mike in tucson