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Rosamond, California -- On pit road, I was surprised by a face familiar from childhood. Squatting on my haunches, I stared into the hawklike eyes of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series. The Black resembled a favorite plaything from my grandmother’s house, the red-orange, plastic 1963 Mercedes-Benz 300SL in the small toy box she kept for us kids. This handful of SL excelled on the esses and chicanes only I could see on the floor.