Tool roll, a series of Mercedes-Benz branded steel items, $8000 (£6500) at Uniques and Antiques.
Necessary to complete a car for a concours is the tool roll, a series of Mercedes-Benz branded steel tools that allowed owners to perform routine maintenance.
These are often reassembled from elements and reproduction parts but the example offered at Uniques and Antiques (25% buyer’s premium) in Aston, Pennsylvania, was seemingly all-original.
Not only did it retain its leatherette roll, but it came with the purchase receipt of the car itself from Bryn Mawr Mercedes-Studebaker of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in March 1961.
At the time, the three-year-old 1958 300SL Roadster was priced at $6000 plus sales tax (roughly $62,000 in today’s money).
Sixty-three years later the tool roll alone, estimated at $400-600 on March 12, hammered for $8000 (£6500).
