300SL Dullwing

If you're going to revisit the past and give it a fresh new twist here's a free piece of advice: Take something that was flawed and improve upon it, this way success lies. If you take a stone-cold 100% belter and try to improve it you're giving yourself a hard task.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative who believes in concours perfection and the inviolability of certain marques but A Bathing Ape’s Founder Nigo’s 300SL Gullwing Benz is certainly pushing me in that direction.

Perhaps its just a cynical PR exercise that has already paid off by virtue of the attention it's receiving. Or maybe he actually thinks this is a good thing?! A Bathing Ape as all you fashionable folk know is a fashion label that da yoot wear apparently m'lud, and the vinyl wrap shows one of their distinctive Camo patterns...

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...but for the love of Bob, what the fuck were they thinking with those alloys? Christ on a bike.