Imagine buying a monogrammed vintage suit from a thrift store. Sure, it wasn’t made for you, but still pretty cool, right?
Well, this Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC AMG is a lot like that, but if the vintage suit was from Hugo Boss and the monogram covered the entire front of the suit jacket.
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I'm putting "hand-painted leather gauge faces" on my list of "car options I never realized I needed." What a flex.
What part, exactly, is "hand painted". The background ? The needles ? It sure as hell isn't the alpha-numerics......unless hand painted by a robot.
300zxfreak said:What part, exactly, is "hand painted". The background ? The needles ? It sure as hell isn't the alpha-numerics......unless hand painted by a robot.
It's a good question. To quote the seller, "The lower dashboard is done in black buffalo leather, while the upper dashboard wears dark green buffalo leather which also finds its way to the matching set of grain-matched, leather-faced gauges with hand-painted indications."
Perhaps a stencil was used? Or is it out of the question that they could have genuinely been hand-painted with as much money as someone dumped into having this car built?
I'm not certain myself. I do, however, love the leather gauge faces. 
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