'63 Mercedes 300SL Original Interior

The Mercedes Benz 300SL Roadster - voted one of the sexiest cars in the world.

So what did we do?
Naturally, we stripped it!

The dash was the first area of detail for this major restoration project.

This may look scary, but one of our great areas of expertise is being able to take a complex dash like this apart and put it back together properly.

And here's the finished centerpiece - releathered, including the inner windshield frame, repolished, and even sporting a new wood steering wheel.

Even the transmission tunnel, front cowl panels and side rails were repadded and covered in the same leather.

The door panels also required a great deal of attention. The original stitch design was carefully duplicated and the armrests were tightly leather wrapped.

Next up were the seats. These actually required the most extensive work. The originals weren't that bad, but nothing like new.

The pleats were individually stuffed and again, the original stitching design was carefully duplicated. The leather then had to be fitted to the frames and hand stitched into place.

The balance of the floor was redone in a combination of the original square weave wool with leather binding and the correct black rubber mats.

The convertible top was replaced using the original German canvas. The top had to be hand fit and finished to the frame as these frames have slight variances.

Even the removable hardtop headliner was restored.

So what looked like this, at one point ...

. . . Ultimately became this masterpiece, worth several hundred thousand dollars!

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