Two built. One sold.
The closed 300 SLR was a W 196 S racing prototype, not a derivative of the production 300 SL. Two were completed and neither raced; Mercedes-Benz retained both until chassis 00008/55 sold for €135 million in 2022.
Market value · road
€120M–€150M
Typical €135M · 1 sales
Market & Price
A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.
Records: Chassis 196.110-00008/55 — €135,000,000 · Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart · 2022-05-05; 1 documented road sales on file · 2022–2022. estimate band €120M–€150M · good road cars.
Compound annual growth
| Window | This car* | S&P 500 | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Y | +1.9% | +18.8% | +21.9% |
*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends
Deepest drawdown · model window
Forecast ladder · model quantiles
| Horizon | P10 | P50 | P90 |
|---|---|---|---|
| +6M | €125M | €136M | €149M |
| +12M | €124M | €138M | €153M |
| +24M | €121M | €141M | €163M |
Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice
1 of 1 recorded sales · shown in EUR · recorded currency in each record
One first-time sale after 67 years of factory ownership.
Floor
€120M
Typical
€135M
Ceiling
€150M
Estimate band for good road cars. 1 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.
Band, axis and sale positions shown in recorded EUR. Indicative only. With one privately held car and one museum car, condition, availability and provenance cannot be separated from the 2022 result.
Road record
€135,000,000
Chassis 196.110-00008/55
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart · 2022-05-05
Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.
The published €135 million result is the complete public market ledger for the type.
Overview
Sindelfingen's body engineers drew a closed 300 SLR in November 1953. Formula 1 absorbed the racing department's capacity, and drivers preferred the open car when the W 196 S finally entered the 1955 sports-car season.
The coupé project returned for the cancelled Carrera Panamericana and for 1956. Two cars were completed in 1955, but Mercedes-Benz's withdrawal from racing left them as development cars rather than competition entries.
Rudolf Uhlenhaut drove the first car extensively across Europe. In 1956 Automobil Revue covered 3'500 kilometres in a coupé and recorded 284 km/h, with one run at 290 km/h. Mercedes-Benz kept both cars until the private 2022 auction of chassis 196.110-00008/55.
Reference
The records
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2022 auction result
chassis 196.110-00008/55
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Coupés built
W 196 S prototypes
0km/h
Period test maximum
Automobil Revue, 1956
HICON BID
A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR "Uhlenhaut Coupé" file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds.
HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one.
The vault
You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis.
The hands
The people whose work shaped the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR "Uhlenhaut Coupé".
Creator and chief engineer
Led development of the W 196 and 300 SLR programmes, then used a coupé for development and long-distance company travel.
