CrzRsn's Mercedes-Benz 300SL Tag

Hi! Thanks for picking up me up! Hope you like my ride! My mission is to travel the world by getting dropped in as many caches as possible. Please do not pick me up and take me for visits from cache to cache, but drop me off as soon as possible as I want to continue my journey with as many different people as possible. If you are visitng multiple caches at once with me in your pocket, I would rather you not do "visit" style logs. Thanks so much!
 

My home is in Michigan. I'm starting my journey on May 21, 2023. Lets see how far I can go!

The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (chassis code W 198) is a two-seat sports car which was produced by Mercedes-Benz as a gullwinged coupe (1954–1957) and roadster (1957–1963). It was based on the company's 1952 racer, the W194, with mechanical direct fuel injection which boosted power almost 50 percent in its three-liter overhead camshaft straight-six engine. Capable of reaching a top speed of up to 263 km/h (163 mph), it was a sports car racing champion and the fastest production car of its time.

Max Hoffman, Mercedes-Benz's United States importer at the time, inspired the 300 SL and saw an American market for such a car. The company introduced the 300 SL in February 1954 at the International Motor Sports Show in New York City (instead of Europe) to get it into US buyers' hands sooner.

SL is the short form for "super-light" in German (super-leicht) – Mercedes' first use of the designation, referring to the car's racing-bred light tubular-frame construction. The 300 SL was voted the "sports car of the century" in 1999.

More about the 300SL here!