The SLK was specially commissioned as an SLK body on top of a G-Wagen platform (I believe) by investor Jim Rogers for a trip around the world a few years ago with his wife (30-ish years younger than him), it's detailed in the book "Adventure Capitalist". Rogers wrote another book, "Investment Biker", about a similar trip he took around the world on BMW motorcycles in the early '90s with his then girlfriend, also about 25 years younger than him. Both are worth reading. Interesting guy - he was George Soros's original partner, retired to invest his own money in the early '70s, owns a mansion on Riverside Drive in NYC and occasionally teaches at Columbia. More recently he got heavily into commodities a couple of years before the recent bull market and started a commodity fund that's done very well. Mostly invests and has a lot of fun, he's on the panel in the Barron's Roundtable issue most years. He also had a trailer in the same color as the SLK that he pulled around with their luggage.

That caR must be a new addition to the Classic Center. I visited about 6 weeks ago and the Rogers SLK wasn't there. They did, however, have a bunch of cars shipped over from the MB museum in Stuttgart that they were preparing just before sending them up to the Pebble Beach councours. I think most of the cars in the back aren't for sale. The back room isn't officially open to the public, but if you show interest you can usually find someone to take you back and answer questions - the people who work there are really into the cars.

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