Filed under: Sedan , Videos , Audi , Specialty Some vehicles are made to be stretched. Others, less so. A Lincoln Town Car , for example, is a good platform for a limo. A Mercedes-Benz S-Class , sure.
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British limo company eager to show its chops with stretched Audi R8 [w/video]
More than $39 million worth of vehicles where sold on the day but there was no doubt which model stole the show
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Rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing sells for $4.62m
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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Report: One-off Mercedes 500K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard
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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Auctions: Rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Alloy sells for record $4.62 million
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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Report: One-off Mercedes 550K barn find discovered in South Central, LA salvage yard
Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Performance , Auctions , Celebrities Two bits of automotive movie history at a Profiles in History auction held earlier this month have drawn massive bids from collectors. As you may recall, Steve McQueen’s racing suit costume from Le Mans was poised to go under the gavel with the auction house estimating the Gulf Oil suit would fetch between $200,000 and $300,000. Hemmings says that by the time the last bid came in, the suit had fetched a staggering $984,000, thereby proving that when it comes to celebrity auctions, few names can draw dollar bills quite like McQueen.
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Report: Steve McQueen’s Le Mans suit fetches nearly $1M, BTTF DeLorean $541k