{"id":33727,"date":"2013-10-08T15:38:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T14:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=33727"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:47:19","slug":"mercedes-300sl-bonneville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/mercedes-300sl-bonneville\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes 300 SL at the Bonneville Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Images &amp; Video via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsolitariomc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Solitario\/Kristina Fender<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artistic Abstraction and car culture don&#8217;t usually go together<\/strong>. But when you think about it, there&#8217;s nothing as abstract &#8211; as tangential and difficult to grasp &#8211; as sound. And the sound of this 1952 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/million-pound-mercedes\/\">Mercedes 300 SL<\/a> ripping across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/bonneville-salt\/\">Bonneville Salt<\/a> is fleetingly beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoy. 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