{"product_id":"mercedes-benz-300-slr-pewter-sculpture-asm0582","title":"Mercedes Benz 300 SLR  Pewter Sculpture","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe love for rare and beautiful objects here at Analog:Shift isn’t limited to watches. Our endless treasure hunt frequently wanders into vintage clocks, pocket knives, lighters, old-world ashtrays, diving equipment, desk sculptures, and other wonderfully unnecessary objects that tug at our nostalgic heartstrings. Unfortunately, we can’t keep them all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhich brings us to this wonderfully substantial Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR sculpture by British design house Compulsion Gallery. Measuring approximately 7 1\/2” x 3” x 2”, it recreates one of the great racing cars of the 1950s, complete with its impossibly low body, intricate wire wheels, open cockpit, and driver caught mid-action behind the wheel. The real 300 SLR was developed for the 1955 World Sportscar Championship and driven by legends including Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss. Most famously, Moss and navigator Denis Jenkinson drove one to victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, completing the roughly 1,000-mile course in just over ten hours at a record average speed of nearly 98 mph.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced during the 1990s or early 2000s, the sculpture was created using one of Compulsion Gallery’s signature techniques. Rather than being cast from solid metal, a high-density resin core was thermal-plated in lead-free pewter, then hand-polished and lacquered. The process gives the piece a satisfyingly substantial weight and cool metallic feel while allowing the details of the 300 SLR’s curvaceous bodywork, wire wheels, cockpit, and driver to really come through.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompulsion Gallery specialized in oversized automotive and sporting sculptures before eventually disappearing, and its pieces have since developed a following among petrolheads and automobilia collectors. This one brings together Mercedes-Benz, the Silver Arrows, the golden age of sports-car racing, and one of the most beautiful competition cars ever built.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTechnically, it’s a paperweight. But covering up dull paperwork with a fabulous 300 SLR seems almost blasphemous!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Compulsion Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44334098972759,"sku":"39131879","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/files\/Automotive_Pewter_Car_2-1-2.jpg?v=1792696065","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/mercedes-benz-300-slr-pewter-sculpture-asm0582","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}