This One-Off ’80s Mercedes Gullwing Looks Like a Fever Dream Made Real

What in the World is a Boschert?If you take a look at the European tuning scene in the ’80s, there was definitely no shortage of outrageous, expensive, and unashamedly polarizing custom jobs. Call it imaginative, expressive, or straight-up tacky, those cars perfectly captured the excesses enjoyed by the rich during that decade.One man wanted to try his luck in that scene, and his name is Hartmut Boschert. In essence, he drummed up the idea of creating a modern (for the ’80s) interpretation of the classic Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, otherwise known as the Gullwing. From there, he set out to build it for real, and t …