For sale: Mercedes-Benz CLK LM. Race-proven with pole position at Le Mans in 1998, now road ready for life in the slow lane.
. I mean, quite literally, cars built for the sole purpose of going fast on a racetrack finding their way onto someone’s driveway as their weekend toy.
Here's another car that competed in that same race and has recently been converted to road use. We all know the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, right? The V12-engined homologation special that allowed Mercedes to go racing in GT1 in the 1990s, which it dominated from the get-go. Well, this isn’t it. It’s instead the follow up CLK LM, a heavily revised version of the CLK GTR built for La Sarthe's lengthy straights.
Surprisingly, the LM Strassenversion is allegedly in the ownership of a private collector. So there is a chance it’ll one day be sold , but one particularly wealthy Mercedes fan clearly was clearly in a bit of a hurry. Like the Comas-owned R390, competed at Le Mans in 1998 as, I believe, the pole-sitting number 35 car.
Although the car’s livery has been stripped, the car’s racing past is still evident with the lofty rear wing and the old Mobil 1 and Bridgestone graphics have been left on, for some reason. The interior is pure Le Mans car, too, with cables, carbon boxes and stickered switches. No leather, no second seat. So if the livery-less look isn’t quite to your liking, it would only take a few stickers – and a couple of light pods for the bumper – to get chassis 005 back to Le Mans glory.
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