The Seattle-ite XXI offered a glimpse into the world to come... as well as some ideas that didn't quite age as well.

No matter if you're restoring a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL "Gullwing" from a rusted-out barn find shell, or just repairing accident damage, you want to use the best, most accurate body parts for it.

Just have fun with them," says the owner of the salt-covered Mercedes-Benz Gullwing. No, it's not a new SLS AMG, but an original 300SL that Bob Sirna bought a year out of college in the early 1980s.

The outstanding feature, naturally, was the doors, but that wasn't all that set the 300SL on its own particular pedestal. Exactly what it was probably no one could ever tell you; maybe it was ...

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