Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing High Quality Vintage Print

Description

This Benz 300SL Gullwing black and white poster raises both doors at once in low light, which turns a car into something closer to a bird and is the single image the model has never escaped.

With one door up the car still reads as a car. With both up the roofline disappears entirely and the shape becomes symmetrical, which is why this is the pose used whenever anybody wants the model recognised in silhouette. Low light strips the paint back to outline and makes the symmetry the only thing left.

Both doors up: the Benz 300SL Gullwing black and white poster

Symmetry hangs centrally and formally, so this is the one to put on a chimney breast, over a bed, or dead centre above a console table, where an asymmetric composition would look like it had slipped. It is the more graphic of the two 300 SL frames in this shop; the single-door version is the quieter one.

The frame that made it a spaceframe

The tubular structure that dictated the doors was borrowed from a racing car and gave the road car exceptional stiffness for very little weight, at the cost of sills deep enough to make getting in an event. The engineering is described as the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.

Hang it with

Three that sit well beside it: Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing poster, BMW E30 M3 black and white poster, Porsche 911 930 black and white poster, or browse the whole classic car poster collection.

Printed and shipped by Montclair

Every Montclair poster is made to order, so nothing is stocked and nothing is ever out of stock. Yours is printed with archival pigment inks rather than dye, as a giclee at 300 dpi on 200 gsm (80 lb) archival matte paper, FSC-certified or equivalent, with a smooth, uncoated, non-reflective surface at 0.26 mm (10.3 mils). It goes on the press within 72 hours. Delivery is tracked and free worldwide, typically 8 to 13 days, with shipping already inside the price. Unframed posters ship rolled in a rigid tube. Framing is available from 27×35 cm to 70×100 cm in solid wood, assembled by hand with hanging hardware fitted to the back.