1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL driven by Americans John Fitch and Kurt Gesell at the 1955 Mille...
By the 1950s it was clear that Americans were in the mood for sporty cars with the right balance of...
After rising from the ashes of postwar Europe, Mercedes-Benz returned to racing in 1952, winning the World Sports Car Championship with the now-famous 300SL factory sports racer. That might have been the end of the 300SL concept, as the factory was then planning a return to Grand Prix racing, but...
The all-German marque Concours d’Elegance that has become a staple on the annual Monterey Car Week schedule will host a...
It may be irrelevant to ascribe beauty to a racing car designed expressly for its function. But the 1938 W154...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of Eastern France. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970 E-mail: [email protected] • Web site: www.klemcoll.com...
We met up with Gary Humecke in Thousand Oaks, California to see and drive his remarkably preserved 1937 Mercedes 170V...
The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance has broken new ground – with fresh beginnings on the historic grounds of the Fort McPherson...
Max Hoffman was a racecar driver in Europe before immigrating to the United States to avoid the Nazis. Hoffman became an importer of European automobiles into the U.S., in the 1950s. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
The New York City Concours (TNYCC) has crowned its first champion – Nat Lanza’s 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing won the...
This unique 1938 Mercedes-Benz Gelandesport 170VS is the only remaining example of 10 specially built by the factory to compete...
The 10-time Grand Prix winning car of Lewis Hamilton will be run by Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport at The Sonoma Speed Festival. The Mercedes-Benz F1 W07 Hybrid car, chassis No.4, will run on the 2.52-mile (4.06 km) 12 turn road course at Sonoma Raceway on June 1-2, 2019. As the most...
A special class of Mercedes-Benz 500K – 540K will take center stage at the 24th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance...
Worldwide got the year off to a flying start in Arizona last week, with a striking selection of rare, pre-war...
Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are only two dads and their lads who have pulled it off. The first to climb that particular Everest were the Hills: Graham won the 1962 world title driving a BRM...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do...
Ralph de Palma at the wheel of his 1928 Mercedes-Benz Type S 26/120/180 . This was the car that de...
Richard A. Stephens, former Academy of Art University president, always had a penchant for cars, a sentiment that has been passed down to his daughter and current president of the Academy, Dr. Elisa Stephens. Desiring to offer automotive design at the Academy, Mr. Stephens wanted to give students a design...
The history of the racing engine—and perhaps to a lesser extent the road going engine as well—has been driven by...
Don Capps, one of the foremost experts on the topic, will present “The Silver Arrows: The 1934 Eifelrennen and Neubaurer’s...
Prof. h.c. Bodo Buschmann, founder and CEO of BRABUS, the world’s largest independent automotive refinement specialist and renowned manufacturer of high-performance supercars, passed away on April 26, 2018, after a short illness. A car enthusiast from an early age with gasoline in his veins, Bodo Buschmann founded BRABUS GmbH in Bottrop...
Only three of the world’s oldest motor races still take place. The most senior of them is the 500 Miles...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
May 2018 • RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale, an exclusive, single-marque auction to be held at the home of Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) in Atlanta. Set for the weekend of October 27, the sale will take place...
The 2018 La Jolla Concours d’Elegance concluded its 14th year on a high note last Sunday, April 8, with more...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as...
Leake Auction Company’s recent Oklahoma City auction marked $6.8 million in sales with 77 percent of the nearly 400 vehicles on offer being sold. Held at the Bennett Event Center on February 23 and 24, the two-day auction’s top seller, was a 2008 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, part of the Rolland...
With snow falling on the streets of Paris, collectors and enthusiasts arrived for the annual Retromobile Salon’s official auction, Retromobile...
RM Sotheby’s recorded a sale total of €23,745,225 ($29,562,805) at its fifth annual Paris sale on February 7, with an...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was to become a racing driver of considerable skill and an ingenious designer/constructor of a range of very competitive and innovative machinery that included sports and racing cars. Heinz Melkus Sadly,...
