{"product_id":"mercedes-benz-300-slr-uhlenhaut-coupe-silver-red-interior-cmc-1-18","title":"Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, Silver with Red Interior","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Uhlenhaut, the engineer behind the 300 SLR, went to the 1955 Mille Miglia to watch his racing car win and came away thinking about a closed version for the long endurance races. Two of the nine 300 SLR chassis were rebodied as gullwing coupés, keeping the racer's fuel-injected straight-eight with its desmodromic valves under panels of Elektron, a magnesium alloy lighter than aluminium. Mercedes withdrew from racing at the end of that season, so neither coupé ever started a race; one reached 290 km\/h on a closed stretch of motorway near Munich, and Uhlenhaut used a coupé as his company car. The pair are known by their upholstery, and this is the red one: chassis 0008\/55, built in December 1955 and kept by Mercedes-Benz until May 2022, when it sold at the company museum in Stuttgart for €135 million, a record for any car.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCMC's model follows the red car closely: red leather throughout, seats faced in red-and-black tartan, a wood-rimmed wheel before fully legible instruments, and no registration plates, only a D badge on the tail. The gullwing doors lift on working over-centre supports, the long bonnet rises over the inclined straight-eight and its injection plumbing, and the boot opens on a spare wheel. The wire wheels wear Dunlop Racing tyres. CMC builds it at 1:18, from 1,817 parts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CMC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67684713726165,"sku":"TAH-13176","price":5140.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8519\/1637\/files\/TAH-13176-01.jpg?v=1791409956","url":"https:\/\/www.automotivehouse.com\/products\/mercedes-benz-300-slr-uhlenhaut-coupe-silver-red-interior-cmc-1-18","provider":"The Automotive House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}