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

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

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

Posted on January 22, 2012 by admin

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Video: The Silver Arrows are Mercedes-Benz World’s private army of Stigs

Posted on July 15, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Performance , Videos , Mercedes-Benz , UK We all have trouble getting out of bed in the morning once in a while. Some more often than others. But when you’ve got a lot full of Mercedes-Benz AMG muscle sedans to play with, you jump up with a little more spring in your step. That is, assuming you actually need sleep at all, because some say these drivers from Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands in Surrey, England, aren’t quite human.

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Audi donates two chrome R8 Spyders to raise $1 million for Elton John AIDS Foundation

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Convertible , Performance , Auctions , Audi , UK , Celebrities Chrome Audi R8 Spyder for EJAF – Click above for high-res image gallery Back in the day, there were two automakers responsible for the famed Silver Arrows of pre-war Germany. One was Mercedes-Benz , the other Auto Union. The former has been known to revive the honorific from time to time, but with Horch, DKW and Wanderer all long gone, the only one of the four Auto Union brands that’s still around is Audi .

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Video: Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl ad director’s cut reveals C-Class Coupe, SLS AMG Roadster

Posted on February 4, 2011 by admin

Filed under: Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Mercedes-Benz , Luxury Mercedes-Benz reveals new models in Super Bowl ad – click above to watch the video Mercedes-Benz is throwing its hat into the Super Bowl advertising fray with a pretty new 60-second spot designed to celebrate the company’s 125th anniversary by heralding in a wave of five new models. The spot marks the very first time that the company has ever advertised during the NFL’s ultimate game. In the spot, Mercedes-Benz features four new vehicles, including a very quick peek at the upcoming C-Class Coupe and the SLS AMG Roadster.

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Video: Get your F1 fix during the break with 30 of the sport’s greatest on-track battles

Posted on August 20, 2010 by admin

Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , Videos Thirty of the greatest Formula One battles since 1935 – Click above to watch the video after the jump The second worst part of the Formula One season is right now during the summer break when F1 fans have to endure four weeks of no racing. We’ve made it this far and have but a week to go until racing resumes at Spa, so to get us over the hump, we have the help of Breakdown Cover. The website has compiled thirty of the best on-track battles dating all the way to Tazio Nuvolari’s Alfa Romeo beating a passel of Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows in Germany in 1935 and put them all into one place.

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