Monterey 2021 The Pebble Beach Tour de Elegance After being deprived of the glorious Monterey pilgrimage for a full two years, the crowd that arrived last August seemed ecstatic to…
One-offs: The Pininfarina 6.3
Pininfarina’s 1969 300SEL 6.3 A lamentable one-off Hoping to duplicate the success of its attractive interpretation of a 1964 230SL, Pininfarina chose the ’60s greatest sedan, the 300SEL 6.3, for…
One offs: The Pininfarina 300B
The 1955 Pininfarina 300B Creating a one-off Adenauer Coupe The general ’50s era design ethos of Italian coachbuilder Pininfarnia and that of Mercedes-Benz could be politely described as divergent. Sober…
Improving the Pagoda: Can it be done?
Variations on the theme: Improving the Pagoda? March 2013 While the demonstrably Teutonic design of the new 230SL was indeed attractive and the mechanical specification reasonably compelling, over the years…
The Pininfarina 230SL
Italian Job Reinterpreting the 230SL November 2010 The first ”special version” of the Pagoda SL straightaway lost its pagoda roof and became something of a multicultural design experiment, a successful…