PAW, short for Phaeton Auto Works, was a replica car builder in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, which described itself as the exclusive builder of the 1936 Mercedes-Benz and 1937 Cord Phaeton replicas. Its 1980s car was inspired by the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500K special roadster, a shape the company said had never been duplicated and which had been judged one of the best-looking cars in the world when introduced at the Berlin…