{"id":494036,"date":"2014-09-01T00:16:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2024-12-29T03:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T03:58:25","slug":"flashback-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/flashback-september-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Car of the Day: Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-520581 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1-770x605.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FB201409-p1-1-293x230.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An image of the dirty and pitted Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing practice car used for pre-race reconnaisance, prior to the 1955 Mille Miglia. Built by Damler-Benz AG, this model was based on the company\u2019s highly successful racecar, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL W194.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Photo courtesy of:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LAT Photographic<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teddington Studios, Broom Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 9BE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UK, Tel: +44 (0) 20 8267 3000, Fax: 020 8267 3001 Email: <a href=\"mailto:lat.photo@haymarket.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lat.photo@haymarket.com<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latphoto.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.latphoto.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image of the dirty and pitted Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing practice car used for pre-race reconnaisance, prior to the 1955 Mille Miglia. Built by Damler-Benz AG, this model was based on the company\u2019s highly successful racecar, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL W194. Photo courtesy of: LAT Photographic Teddington Studios, Broom Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 9BE UK, Tel: +44 (0) 20 8267 3000, Fax: 020 8267 3001 Email: lat.photo@haymarket.com www.latphoto.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":520579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9494,73],"tags":[9495,75,6304],"class_list":["post-494036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-of-the-day","category-mercedes-benz","tag-car-of-the-day","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-mercedes-300-sl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Car of the Day: Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Flashback: September 2014\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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