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Rich Sufficool
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Topic starter 11/04/2021 8:53 am  

Paul O'Shea was a successful race drive in the US in the SCCA circuit and owed a good part of his success to Alfred Neubauer of Mercedes Benz who supplied him with various 300SLs in the mi-fifties even after Mercedes Benz quit racing on the European circuit due to the trauma of that gruesome crash that took so many lives. Neubauer's primary focus was to win races and to boost car sales in America. O'Shea had already won the SCCA National Championship in '55 and '56. He would win the third time in 1957 with this specially prepared. light weight 300SLS roadster (W198 ll) of which two were built.

A replica of this car was made by CMC:

O'Shea 005
O'Shea 006
O'Shea 015
O'Shea 004 1
O'Shea 008
O'Shea 010
O'Shea 012
O'Shea 013
O'Shea 026
O'Shea 022
O'Shea 001

 



   
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 Tony Perrone
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11/04/2021 8:55 am  

Fabulous pics and close-ups Rich! Gotta love those CMC Mercedes!



   
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Topic starter 11/04/2021 8:59 am  

@perrone1 It was a big loss when they abandoned their 1/24 line.



   
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11/04/2021 9:02 am  
Posted by: @rich-sufficool

@perrone1 It was a big loss when they abandoned their 1/24 line.

ABSOLUTELY!!

 



   
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Geoff Jowett
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12/04/2021 3:17 am  

great model/car with an equally great story behind it. Thanks Rich.



   
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