Viva La Carrera Panamericana!!!.... [PIC]

In 1952, Mercedes-Benz reentered  sports car racing with its W194 gull wing, the first (and ugliest) of the similar designed silver arrows of the '50s. The caged lightweight chassis did not allow for normal doors, hence the gull wing configuration. The 3.0 liter straight six was 'borrowed from the "Adenauer" luxury sedan to power the car. Mercedes sent an organized and well equipped team of three cars to compete in the 3rd Mexican Carrera Panamericana rally that began in 1950 to celebrate the completion of their leg of the Panamerican Highway. Driver Karl Kling with navigator Hans Klenk beat out another W194 for the win despite having a rather large vulture crash through the windscreen almost killing Klenk. They finished the race after having eight vertical bars bolted over the replaced windscreen.

This is CMC's 1/24 model of that winning car (they later produced a 1/18 version). It comes with a facsimile of the winner's medallion.