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Report: One-off Mercedes 500K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard

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Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Etc. , Mercedes-Benz , Specialty Being agriculturally inclined to build barns in the country, we don’t expect barn finds to turn up in the middle of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been happening more regularly of late, and writer Michael Mraz has found another example in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K built especially for Silver Arrows race driver Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is pictured above in better days, after having been restored and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the late 1970s.

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Auctions: Rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Alloy sells for record $4.62 million

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Filed under: Classics , Auctions We’ve been busy covering Barrett-Jackson this week, but there are plenty of other auctions going on in Scottsdale as well. One of those is Gooding & Company, which has been selling some pretty incredible cars. Perhaps the most significant is this 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing, which is just one of 29 built with an aluminum alloy body.

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Report: One-off Mercedes 550K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard

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Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Etc. , Mercedes-Benz , Specialty Being agriculturally inclined to build barns in the country, we don’t expect barn finds to turn up in the middle of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been happening more regularly of late, and writer Michael Mraz has found another example in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K built especially for Silver Arrows race driver Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is pictured above in better days, after having been restored and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the late 1970s

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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

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2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG The SLS AMG is the first Mercedes designed in-house by AMG, and it uses the well-known 6.2-liter V-8 from Mercedes’ tuning division for propulsion. The SLS AMG is the first Mercedes designed in-house by AMG, and it uses the well-known 6.2-liter V-8 from Mercedes’ tuning division for propulsion. The coupe’s gull-wing doors hark back to the 300SL, but the SLS replaces the more recent SLR. That car, produced in a joint venture with McLaren, cost nearly $500,000–or more than twice as much as the SLS–and didn’t drive nearly as well.

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Official: Infamous Le Mans 1955 Austin-Healey 100S Prototype sold for $1.3 million [w/video]

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Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Auctions , Etc. , Europe , Videos , UK Motorsports has had plenty of dark days in its history, but few compare to the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans . That race saw Lance Macklin enter this Austin-Healey 100 S Prototype in the legendary European 24-hour race in his name. The vehicle packed a 140-horsepower inline four-cylinder engine with a massive cam and dual carbs, and while Macklin was able to keep the vehicle in decent standing throughout the first racing stint, he eventually found himself being lapped by the substantially quicker sports-prototype vehicles from Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz .

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Frankfurt: Turning scrap metal into German classics is our kind of recycling program

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Filed under: Frankfurt Motor Show , Classics , Etc. , Audi , Mercedes-Benz , Porsche , Design/Style There were plenty of curiosities to see art the Frankfurt Motor Show this year. City cars converted into beach buggies.

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