Autocar Bespoke LLC

Sometimes we just queue them up, knock ‘em down, and put them at the door. These two beauties are clean, detailed, sold, and off to their respective new homes. Nice work team.

Heads up, cat(alytic converter) burglars on the run, headed eastbound on W Thompson toward Germantown. Sorry for sh*tty pics, something like iPhone 2. 🤷🏼‍♂️

1959 190 SL. Is it Sport Leicht or is it Super Leicht? We’ll just say it’s Sehr Sauber. We provided a microscopic level of decontamination of the paint, and sealed the deal with a traditional carnauba paste wax. We provided a ton of brightwork enhancement throughout the car, including the bits 99.99% will never look at. Did you know there is so much chrome in places that are impossible to reach? And we detailed the interior and everything else until our cows never came home.

About the car:
25,881 190 SL [W121] were built between 1955-1963 and priced at $3,998 ($4,295 with a removable hardtop), about $43,000 today. This was the affordable little sibling of the exclusive 300 SL (W198 Gullwing, is known to have driven one for some time).

Now $43k might get you into a project car whereas fully restored mint condition examples might fetch $250k. Compare that to about $1.5mil for a steel body 300 SL Gullwing of equivalent condition. Aluminum body…$7-$9mil expected at auction. Both the 190 SL and the 300 SL were replaced by the 230SL “Pagoda” [W113] in 1963.