Gents,
David Pease got a lot of "nice car!" comments on his long journey from California to Ohio. It's time to celebrate our uniqueness with such a beautiful and yes, rare, car.
Last week was our 18th anniversary (thank you thank you) and as per usual we went to our favorite Italian restaurant, a local place filled with high rollers, CEO's and other well to do folks...and yes they let us in.
When we drove up in the 280SL, heads turned, the valet's eyes popped out, and they
literally pushed aside the bevy of late model Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, and even the Ferrari's to make room right up front. They called the kitchen crew out to see it. Astounding treatment for a beautiful car they don't see that often.
A couple of days later, I was looking at the DuPont Registry magazine, and realized that you have your choice of literally HUNDREDS of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maserati's, Rolls, Benz and Bimmers--your choice of nearly any high end marque and model. There was only two of our "lowly" 113 on its pages.
Those of you with a penchant for old cameras (like I have) will note in a similar fashion, that at old camera shows, and in all the classifieds in the camera magazines, there are
thousands of old Leicas available, every model and style. Like the aforementioned Ferraris et al, all it takes is money. But, find a collector with a rare old Contax or Zeiss-Ikon or any number of old wonderful German cameras of the 1950's and you'll find someone with a certain uniqueness...
Celebrate our uniqueness. All it takes is money to drive a Ferrari, it takes a bit of panache to choose to care for a 113.
Michael Salemi
1969 280SL
Signal Red w/Black Leather
Restored