turned up at a collector's house a few years ago. A newly build Replica is now in the permanent collection of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart Untertürkheim, Germany. On 14 September 1963, Dutch Grand Prix racer Carel Godin de Beaufort took second place in class in the Vaals hill climb in a stock 230SL. In 1964, Mercedes-Benz entered a modified 230 SL for Eugen Böhringer/Klaus Kaiser into the Spa-Sofia-Liège Ralley. These car had special 2.6 liter engine ( Probably with pairwise cylinder casts, a layout that was later adopted for M130 engine of the 280 SL) . The 230 Sl from the previous Year was driven by Dieter Glemser/Martin Braungart, but did not finish. Also entered 2 W111 220 SE Limousines for Ewy Rosqvist/Manfred Schiek, who come 6th and Rolf Kreder/Alfred Kling, who did not finish .Due to considerable mechanical bad luck, Eugen Böhringer finished only third this time, after Rauno Aaltonen on Austin-Healey 3000 and Erik Carlsson on Saab. Acropolis Rally In 1965, Dieter Glemser entered the Acropolis Rally on a light-weight 230 SL similar to the Spa-Sofia-Liège cars. His tuned 2.3 liter engine produced , further evidence to the fact that 230 SL production engines rarely met their power specification. Unfortunately, Glemser was given wrong directions by the police, costing him his comfortable lead and relegating him to third place. In media Magazines The Belgian webzine Gentlemen's Corner listed the W 113 among its 20 "Most stylish cars of the past 50 years". GQ listed the W 113 among the "Ten cars that made Mercedes-Benz". David Gandy of Vogue.com listed the W 113 as one of his "15 favorite cars". The Daily Telegraph put the W 113 on its list of "The 100 most beautiful cars" of all time. Top Gear On the British automotive TV show Top Gear'' (Season 3, Episode 8) the 280 SL is thought of highly, notably being described by the host at the time, Jeremy Clarkson, as one of the cars from the 1960s that has stood the test of time, being "from a time when Mercedes was still building its cars properly." Technical data Famous owners Prominent owners of the W113 (mainly 280 SL) included Juan Manuel Fangio (230SL), Charlton Heston, David Coulthard (midnight blue (904G) 1971 280 SL), Tony Curtis, Walt Disney, John Lennon (dark blue (332G) 1965 230 SL, which was for sale for $495,000 in 2011), John Travolta (havana