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Minimalist Wallet - 1988 Mercedes 500SL
Minimalist Wallet - 1988 Mercedes 500SL
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From a 1988 R107 500SL — the SL that became Beverly Hills, Marbella, and Sankt Moritz simultaneously. Bobby Ewing drove one through the entire run of Dallas.
This is a minimalist wallet made from the original interior of a 1988 Mercedes 500SL. It serves also as a cardholder.
* 2 credit card pockets
* Size: 10 cm x 7 (4 inch x 2" 3/4)
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The Car Behind This Bag
1988 · 5.0L M117 V8 · Bremen · R107 chassis · the longest-running SL of all time
By 1988 the R107 SL had been in continuous production for seventeen years and had quietly become the longest-lived sports car body Mercedes ever built. It would run another year and a half before the R129 replaced it in 1989. The 500SL — sold in Europe but not the US, where the V8 cars were 560SLs — used the 5.0-litre M117 V8 in roughly 240-horsepower trim. By this point, every panel had been refined to the point that the R107 felt almost geological.
It was the car of Dallas. Bobby Ewing drove a 380SL through the entire run of the show. The Bodyguard would put another R107 on screen a few years later. Across the 1980s the SL became the de facto status car of Beverly Hills, Marbella, and Sankt Moritz simultaneously — a triangulation almost no other car has managed before or since. The hardtop went on for winter; the soft top went down for the Riviera.
Total R107 production from 1971 to 1989 reached 237,287 — extraordinary for what was, in factory terms, a low-volume sports car. Original Bremen-fitted leather interiors with chequered wool inserts on the seats remain one of the cleanest material statements of the 1980s Mercedes range.