The 5 Most INSANE Mercedes Cars of the 60s (These Things Are MONSTERS)

Five Mercedes-Benz cars from the 1960s that broke every rule the company was publicly telling everyone else it stood for. The 60s was Mercedes' elegance decade — coach-built coupes for European royalty, hand-fitted roadsters for Hollywood stars, hydraulic limousines for popes. But underneath all that dignity, five machines went completely feral. Ranked #5 to #1: The W113 Pagoda 280SL (the first crash-tested safe convertible in history), the W111 280SE 3.5 V8 Coupe (200hp V8 hiding in a formal Sunday body), the 300SL Roadster (fastest production car in the world at 160mph, direct fuel injection, delivered to Iranian royalty), the 600 Grosser Pullman (biggest, most expensive, most hydraulically complex production car on Earth at its launch), and — as the raw monster of the entire decade — the 300 SEL 6.3 (the sedan an engineer built in his spare time to answer a journalist who called Mercedes "granny cars," which then became the fastest four-door sedan on the planet in 1968). Every AMG in Mercedes' current lineup descends directly from the #1 pick. #mercedesbenz #usedcars #classicmercedes