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09-20-2011, 02:20 AM #1
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Recreating the Mercedes 300 SLR... from scrap
Amazing. This kind of work has to be appreciated
A group of car enthusiasts have lovingly recreated the prototype Mercedes Benz 300 SLR ‘Uhlenhaut Coupe’ from pieces of scrap metal. The ‘Uhlenhaut Coupe’ was never put into production because Mercedes deemed the car too fast for public consumption in the 1950s and spirited it away to their museum in Stuttgart, Germany where the two prototypes are on display.
The scrap metal Mercedes 300 SLR doesn’t drive because it’s only a recreation of the original car and was built out of 10,000 pieces of scrap that three German friends – Armin Ciesielski, Peter Brakel and Walter Willer collaborated on in fastidious fashion. Ciesielski and his partners took seven months to build the replica which they have put up for sale at US$94,770. They’ll probably build another one afterwards and sell that one too. Good business.
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09-20-2011, 03:35 AM #2
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That is very cool!
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09-20-2011, 06:07 AM #3
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Beautiful! I love car art.
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09-20-2011, 09:46 PM #4
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Looks like that's a car designed to appeal to a real gear head
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09-21-2011, 03:39 AM #5
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cleaver Brian, very clever haha
Originally Posted by B R
Looks like that's a car designed to appeal to a real gear head.
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09-21-2011, 03:40 AM #6
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This belongs in a museum......
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09-21-2011, 05:23 AM #7
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Indeed Originally Posted by rossii
I stay reppin the 4MILY .
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10-01-2011, 02:09 PM #8
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the work is appreciated
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10-02-2011, 01:26 AM #9
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That's wild!
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10-02-2011, 01:44 AM #10
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wow now that's an art car!
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