The answer – for now, and if your pockets are sufficiently deep – is the beautiful Mercedes you see before you. It began life in 1968 as an SL W113, a model better known as the Pagoda.

But what if you could own an iconic classic car, like, say, the Mercedes-Benz 280SL Pagoda, without having to ... Of course, Everatti's SL isn't its first electrification project.

The Mercedes W113 SL ‘Pagoda’ (1963-1971), so named because of the concave shape of its removable hard-top, is indisputably one of the most beautiful and evocative sports cars of its generation.

Early Mercedes SLs are already classics, so there's no problem there. The early ones -- 300SL, 190SL and 230SL pagoda roof models -- are now bringing quite high prices on the collector-car market, and ...