Story and photography by Trevor Tsoi

This is my 2002 Mercedes-Benz SL500 Silver Arrow Edition. It’s the culmination of a childhood spent obsessed with the marque, and it’s a car that I wanted to own in part due to what it represented as a machine, but also what it represented for my family. This is the story of how I came to own one of the rarer iterations of a masterful design by the legendary Bruno Sacco; in my eyes it is his finest work, and it marks the end of a definitive era for Mercedes-Benz. It isn’t something I’d call vintage yet, but it’s surely a modern classic, and one that I intend to keep for the rest of my life.

As is the typical story for many of you reading this, I became fascinated with cars when I was very young, but my story is a bit strange and a sad. It began when my dad moved away. From our hometown in Canada, he moved to Hong Kong for work,