If You're Taking This Out To The Park on a Sunny Afternoon, .... [PIC]

You need to tap that muffler on and if you have a passenger, stow an asbestos blanket behind to drape over it for the ingress and egress of your significant other.

Of the 6 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLRs built in 1955, only two were Berlinettas - AKA: the Gull Wing Uhlenhauts. Created by head designer and chief engineer, Rudolf Uhlenhaut, these cars had the misfortune of being introduced the year Mercedes ended their racing program after the cataclysmic accident at Le Mans that killed 83 spectators and injured 120 more. It was be the fastest of the W196Rs with Uhlenhaut himself reaching 180 mph but it was never proven on the race course with Mexico cancelling the Carrera Panamericana that year. Uhlenhaut took one as a company car and made his 220km commute from Stuttgart to Munich in about an hour (radar enforcement wasn't introduced in Germany until 1959). Uhlenhaut did offer celebrities rides in the car for publicity purposes and the Swiss authoritative "Automobil Revue" was allowed to take it for a 3500km test drive through the Alps and released a comprehensive report praising the car as almost otherworldly. The existing Uhlenhaut was sold by Mercedes to a private collector for a staggering $143 million!