Otmar wrote:
> My mother has been dreaming of owning a 190SL since I was a kid, or > maybe longer. The 190SL is a roadster that Mercedes made between 1954 > and 1963. It has very beautiful lines and is a very elegant machine. > > Mom called me today and told me she really wants to own an electric > conversion of a 190SL. Somehow I knew this was coming! :-) Those are rather valuable cars to be converting. I've owned 190SL, 250SL, and 280SL MBs, but it got to the point where you couldn't enjoy them any more. I came out of a mall to find a kid leaning into the 190SL to look at the interior, and he was wearing those pants with the ZIPPERS on them ! The guy I sold the 280SL to came out of a restaurant with his wife and found a guy had dented his trunk lid. He had the top off, but the side windows rolled-up, and I guess the guy leaned on the trunk to get a look at the dash. The hood and rear deck lid on the 280SL are aluminium. If you had a 190SL that your family had owned for ages, or an old one that someone had given to you, I'd say knock yourself out, but by the time you purchase one, plus the cost of conversion, you'll be financially upside-down in a car that will have declined in value because it's a collectible that would be modified from stock. Too bad nobody makes a glass replica of the 190SL like they did with the old Porsche 356 Speedsters. The originals of those have become too valuable to drive around as well. Vince
