“If only one car built since World War II could be called a classic, it would have to be the ‘Gullwing’ 300 SL” US magazine Road & Track revisits the iconic ‘Gullwing’ in a 1968 road test 14 years after the model was launched, driving it in 1960s traffic and concluding: “Too bad Mercedes isn’t building something like the 300 SL today”.