Gemballa 1001SEL - 80's luxury driven to the top!

That is utterly, utterly magnificent. Love everything about it.

Interesting fact about the boot badge... I wrote a thing about W126 Mercs a while back for Retro Cars, here's a snippet: 'Why ‘1000’? Well, that’s a sort of in-joke for Mercedes-Benz aficionados. In period, companies such as Trasco, Chameleon and Robert Jankel Design would modify W126s for discerning customers, basing the nomenclature on the principle that ‘a 1000SEL is twice as good as a 500SEL’. There are no hard-and-fast rules regarding what a 1000 is because it’s an ethereal concept; if it’s modified and opulent, you can call it a 1000 if you so wish… and if you want to go further beyond that, why not spec yourself a Gemballa 1001SEL, or a 5000, or even a 10000? The width of the bootlid is the limit, really.'

I wonder what the highest number is that found itself on the boot of one of these...?

That is just superb and I want one...!!! It could only happen in the 80's...