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05/10/2025 10:55 am
You could wind out this Mercedes-Benz 500K (Kompressor) Spezial Cabriolet to 100 mph on the newly built Autobahn thanks to its supercharged 5.0 liter straight 8 producing 160 HP. Of course consuming 7.8 mpg you'd need to make a few pit stops along the way. As Mercedes most luxurious and powerful grand touring car you'd need more than a pile of Deutschmarks to get on the waiting list. It was produced from 1934 to 1936 with only 29 of this 'special roadsters' built.
One of my favorite 1/24 CMCs.
05/10/2025 5:27 pm
Rolling masterpiece! I wonder how many are still in existence?
05/10/2025 6:07 pm
Just bought this bigger replica of the little brother.
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05/10/2025 6:44 pm
@chav At 1/12 scale, it's not so little. I'd love to see some close ups.
05/10/2025 8:58 pm
@rich-sufficool Hope to receive it later this week.
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05/10/2025 10:15 pm
@chav I just want to share my fun,fun,fun auf de autobahn experience. In ‘73 through ‘74 I was in the US Army stationed in Amberg, Bavaria Germany serving as a tank driver in the 3/2 Armored Cavalry. Our mission was border sentry on the West German/Czech border. Our squadron would periodically have to travel about 40km to a training area in Grafenwoehr for tank gunnery maneuvers. That was fun, but the real fun was being part of a column of about 30 main battle tanks (around 60 T) and numerous and various other vehicles with a top speed of about 45 mph sharing the Autobahn with Germany’s finest and fastest. It was amazing that I only witnessed one fatality, a Mercedes with sleet flying and little visibility, passing my tank and swerving into the tank in front of me. Luckily no damage to the tank!
This post was modified 7 months ago 3 times by kevins
05/10/2025 11:08 pm
A historic car that links the Special Roadster and the American Army in WWII is the Blue Goose, Hermann Goering's armored 540K Mercedes Benz Special Roadster that was recovered in May 1945 by Captain Joe Crilley, a solider of the 326 Engineering Company of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army in the town of Berchtesgaden, Germany. The American solders shot 2 bullets in the car, one in the armored driver side window and one in the right fender (see last 2 pictures). The car was equipped with an retractable armored plate behind the seats and the Mercedes factory had to make a thinner driver seat back to accommodate the fat flamboyant Nazi leader.
06/10/2025 1:48 am
@chav Very cool photos Chav, thanks for sharing! I am familiar with the Blue Goose and it’s history. I visited the Austrian alps while deployed but never made it to Berchtesgaden, though I would have liked to. Actually the tank photo with the lady is a photo I found online, I like it because you can get an idea of the size of the tank.
06/10/2025 2:32 am
very interesting post all round, thanks gents
06/10/2025 11:11 am
@perrone1 I reckon you hitched in one or two during your stint Tony.
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