About 15,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, there was a huge lake up in Alberta, Canada. The lake was held in place by a glacier that formed an ice dam, and when it broke the water came down the west side of the Continental Divide in a…

Of the 803 Mercedes made in 1904, one in four was sold in America. The three-pointed star was the USA’s most popular imported car. Business was so good that in that year production of Mercedes cars began in Long Island City, New York. After a…

Back in 1985, after much reading and dreaming, I concluded that a Mercedes 280SL would be the perfect daily driver with collectible potential. I'm not sure how it would have worked out as a daily driver, although it would have been fun to try, but…

In The Star magazine’s May-June 2022 article, “There at the Beginning,” we spoke extensively about my father, Alfred Peyton Jenkins, and the car’s early history and how he purchased our 1957 300SL Roadster. The following is the story of our…

Growing up in a federal housing project in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights struggle, I would often look to the skies as an escape from the reality my family faced as then Negroes in an unjust America. My dad was a victim of…

Ann Fagan has been an avid MBCA member and collector for over 40 years. Ann has mostly focused on various SL models from the 1950s to the 1990s, and she has also owned several W124 sedans.  A couple of years ago, Ann acquired a 1982 300D Turbo…

It's my sad duty to tell you that Gary Anderson, Editor of The Star 2009-2020, has passed away. His good friend Richard Simonds has written a fine tribute in this issue, and I want to add my perspective.  A very perceptive friend once said that…

Anyone who has known me for very long has probably heard me say I believe God puts you where you need to be when you need to be there. I’m not trying to preach or push my religion. I just happen to believe that because I’ve seen evidence in my life…

You need three senses to truly appreciate the Gambler 500 Rally: a sense of adventure, a sense of stewardship, and – above all – a sense of humor. The Gambler combines all of those into an automotive experience unlike anything you've ever…

A few months ago, while paging through The Star, my husband Ian spotted a notice with details about Sports Car Market Magazine’s first ever SCM 1000 AMG Invitational, presented by Mercedes-AMG. Honestly, we weren’t sure if our AMG C43 warranted “…