Estimated read time: 6-7 minutes
Sometimes the villains in James Bond movies drove them; they've always been classy. And thanks to two Utah car builders, they're looking better than ever, and getting faster than ever.
But are they hot enough to start a trend?
We'll start with the tame one, which was still a lot of work. Alex Hixson, of Holladay, liked the stacked-headlight Mercedes-Benz cars from 1961-1973, inspired by cars he'd seen the "bad guys" drive in early James Bond films. He bought a 1973 Mercedes SE from a North Salt Lake wrecking yard, but progress restoring it was slow, as it had a lot of rust.
While shopping for parts in the same wrecking yard, he saw a 1971 Mercedes 280 SE for sale for $300.
The engine was seized, the interior gone, but the body was good. Hixson came bac