Films – December 05, 2025
Jack of All Trades: Mike Denker's Safari Porsche 911
The Last Silver Arrow: The Stirling Moss Mercedes 300SL Gullwing
by Kris Clewell -
For seventy years the world believed Mercedes Benz ended its racing chapter in the smoke and silence of Le Mans 1955. Chassis 5500640 tells another story. Built quietly inside the Sportabteilung months after the factory’s public withdrawal, this 300SL Gullwing was one of four factory prepared race cars that continued the Silver Arrow lineage, complete with purpose built race prototype “P” engines from Mercedes very own racing department.
Raced by Armando Zampiero at Monza and later driven by Stirling Moss in the 1956 Tour de France Automobile, the car lived a long second life across Europe before vanishing into a family garage for nearly four decades. Its rediscovery revealed not only the last surviving Sportabteilung Gullwing but the truth behind a myth that shaped Mercedes lore for generations.
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