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AAAYEEE!!! MY EYES!!!!

I know 190's aren't the most sought after Benz but WHY go to all that trouble to make it NOT a Benz anymore?!?!
 
According to the article, the owner bought the Benz after he wrote off something fast and Italian. The company then got under the Benz and quickly realized the owner had been badly ripped off, engine was finished, body was badly bodged, so, it wasn't a hard decision then as it was a lousy car to start with and might have actually cost more to put right.
 
IMHO its a "three wrongs" circumstance. It well could be that putting it back to "original" would out spend the conversion BUT... it'd be another saved 190. As it is (and I realize its unique an' all that), it ain't as valuable a piece.
 
Now <span style="font-size: 9pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">THIS</span></span> 1938 beamer could change my mind! :jester:

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Jim Proffitt?
 
A 190SL isn't that rare, plenty of them around... I kind of like the car, the customization seems to have been done tastefully...
 
190's are as common as MGB's.
 
DrEntropy said:
190's are as common as MGB's.
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Which is really my point. Certainly taste is taste and I've seen for too many truly ugly customizations, but, it's his car, his money, and while I might not have gone that route (at the very least I would have used a German drivetrain) still, it's his choice, not a car that history demands be preserved and it's different and kind of cool.
 
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