My 190 SL

[TAKerry]

Found some lost pictures of my '57 190 SL. It was a good 10footer, I put the top on myself and painted the wheels. Did a minor mechanical overhaul. It ran ok, just about as good as expected. I ended up selling at an auction in Philly to a fellow from West Chester PA. that was in the paper business. If he is on here please chime in.  Sold the car around 1989/1990 for 12k!

2021-09-17_05-20-58 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr

2021-09-17_05-20-48 by Kerry Grubb, on Flickr

[TerryB]

Cool car that is much in demand today.

[John_S_in_Penna]

I always admired the styling.  They're beautiful

little cars.  However, I sat in one, and they're not

made for tall people, I could tell.

[John348]

20 hours ago, John_S_in_Penna said:

I always admired the styling.  They're beautiful

little cars.  However, I sat in one, and they're not

made for tall people, I could tell.

 

What about fat guys? ha ha

[TAKerry]

I knew some about them back in the day when I owned this one, but this was 30 yrs ago before I had internet. I had no idea about trim tags or the such. I assumed this car was originally grey as the bottom half of the dash was grey (and in original condition). I also had the original hardtop which was grey. I think the guy I bought it from painted it resale red.

[Walt G]

On 9/18/2021 at 2:28 AM, John_S_in_Penna said:

I always admired the styling.  They're beautiful

little cars.  However, I sat in one, and they're not

made for tall people, I could tell.

MY neighbor had one when it was only a few years old. He was 6' 4" tall, when he sat in it ( had to have the top down) he looked a bit out of place /proportion as he stuck up and looked over the windshield !  He bought it 1) because it was cheap 2) He thought it would be a chick magnet. He also was the type who was a "big Spender" and was often at the $2.00 window to place a bet on a 'long shot' ( at winning)  at a horse race at the race track that is our neighbor.

[TheMoneyPit]

Beautiful car, and like many I have “one of those stories” too… I remember seeing a gull wing Mercedes sitting in a junky used car dealership in the early 1980’s but it was $2000 and very rusty. My dad was a master body man and felt it was a total waste of money… if only we had access to a time machine!
 

A few years later there was a Cadillac powered Allard for 20k and I was 5k short!

[ejboyd5]

Post your inquiry on  https://forums.190slgroup.com/  You may be lucky and get some information.

[wws944]

As I mentioned in one of the other threads, between my dad and myself we had three 190SLs.  Mine was a '61 which had been repainted in "resale red".  But we knew it was originally white due to the dash color.  So had it repainted back to white.  I sold it, stupidly for too cheap, in 1977 or so to a guy who flipped it about a month later.  Still makes me mad...  I eventually used the proceeds to buy my first new car - a 1978 Buick Regal Sport Coupe (first year of the Buick turbo engines).  Dad's 190SL was a '60 and was also white.  He sold it in about 1988 or 1989 to a collector in Detroit.  The third was a white '59 parts car that was full of rust and scrapped.  The '59 did have a removable hard top and was one of the reasons we bought it.  But it got ruined by some neighborhood kids where we had the car stored. 

 

Very pretty car, but not especially performance oriented.  It was fairly heavy.  And despite the dual carbs, wasn't that powerful.  I did learn a _lot_ about cars from working on it though.