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| | european car Magazine: 50 Years of SL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The 300SLs made their racing debuts at the 1952 Mille Miglia, with Karl Kling, Hermann Lang and Rudy Caracciola, with Kling finishing second, Caracciola fourth and Lang retiring due to damaged rear suspension. |
 | | The magic season was finished in November at the Carrera Panamericana, a 2,000-mile, five-day speed extravaganza where the factory team fielded both coupes and roadsters, with Kling/Klenk, Lang/Grupp and American John Fitch with navigator Eugen Geiger. |
 | | He showed Kling's Bern-winning car at car shows and sports car races during 1953, and gave the production 300SL and the smaller 220-based 190SL their world premieres in New York City in February, 1954. |
| www.europeancarweb.com /features/0112ec_sl/index.html (2177 words) |
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