The original Mercedes-Benz 300SL from the 1950s is a thing of beauty. The racecar turned object of desire featured one of the most distinctive designs seen on an automobile: gullwing doors. It would take Mercedes 55 years to create a true successor to the original Gullwing, in the shape of the SLS. However, that didn’t stop people from creating cars such as the Boschert B300 ‘Gullwing’.

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Hartmut Boschert thought that the C124 (coupe version of the W124) would make an ideal base for a Gullwing of his own design. His car was called the Boschert B300 ‘Gullwing’ and it was a pretty good riff on the theme.

The B300 was based on a 300CE. The pillars and sills extensively strengthened. The bespoke, top-hinged doors are over 1,6 metres long to allow access to the rear seats. The C124 was also fitted with the front-end from an R129-generation SL.

The two-tone purple leather interior must’ve been all the rage when the car was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1989. Boschert targeted a production run of 300 examples but only a handful were ever made. 

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Herr Boschert added more oomph to the B300. The inline-six featured a pair of sequential turbochargers. The new hardware resulted in peak power of just over 210 kW.  

The car pictured is the only one that was featured with the distinctive doors and is now being offered by RM Sothebys. The company expects it will fetch between five and six million rand. Let us know what you think of the Boschert B300 ‘Gullwing’.

Images courtesy of RM Sothebys.