Mercedes Benz 300SL Open Roadster Sports Car by Corgi Toys

Mercedes Benz 300SL Open Roadster Sports Car ref303 by Corgi Toys from 1958.
Finished in light blue with white seats, it came with smooth disc wheel hubs.
This was the very first Mercedes sports car released by Corgi in the late 1950s. It was updated a few years later in 1964 with racing stripes a driver figure and spring suspension.

Fact Box
Code:	303
Released:	1958
Cost now(mint):	£50
Cost now(fair):	£15
Cost now(poor):	£5

This particular model was sold on ebay by George's Good Stuff in May 2006 for £59.05 in the following condition:
This beautiful and hard to find early Corgi model is showing some light age mottling to the paint and a trace of wear to the side raised edges, but overall is in superb excellent to near mint condition, an absolute beauty, and it comes in its rare original blue and yellow card box which is virtually perfect, completely unmarked apart from an original pencil price of 3/6 on one end flap, very crisp, clean, bright and 100 per cent intact - very nice indeed!
A genuine collector’s item, hard to find, and in its correct original box!

Added by Tom on 2006-05-20
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