Amelia Island 2017 Undaunted by Mother Nature With brutal weather assured for Sunday March 11, Concours day for Bill Warner’s Amelia Island show, Warner and his team made the bold…
June 1968: The 300SEL 6.3 debuts in Monterey
Laguna Seca June 27, 1968 New $14,000 300SEL 6.3 debuts in California Legend has it that sometime in 1966 Mercedes engineer, Erich Waxenberger, hatched a plan whereby he would install…
Star of Geneva: 230SL revealed to the press
Star of Geneva The ‘Pagoda’ debuts March 1963 It was a rainy day. The slopes were still covered with snow. The Montblanc was shrouded in clouds. For seconds only the…
Mercedes-Benz Racing: 1969
Competition 1969 Making do with sedans May 2015 It had been a good fourteen years since Mercedes was absolutely “all in” regarding their global motorsport commitments. Le Mans 1955 emphatically…
1969: The C111 Debuts!
Dramatic C111 Wankels amidships September 1969 Successful tractor manufacturer Ferruccio Lamborghini stunned the motoring world in spring 1966 when he revealed his audacious mid-engined Miura P400 at the Geneva Motor…