Mercedes-Benz 300 SL racing sports car — Milestones of Motor Sports · Vol. 2

Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz Classic (Editor)
Text by Günter Engelen

The 300 SL (W 194) is the first racing car with which Mercedes-Benz renewed its participation in international automobile racing in the postwar period. Top-ranking positions and triumphs, such as at the legendary twenty-four-hour endurance race in Le Mans or the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, are not a long time in the coming and as early as 1952 secure a place for the Stuttgart-based make in the worldwide motor sports scene. The racing car achieved particular fame for its unusual gull-winged doors, which turn the production sports car 300 SL, introduced in 1954 and directly derived from the W 194, into one of the lasting icons in automobile history. The book provides exhaustive and authentic documentation of the technical development of the W 194 based on extensive research in the archives of Mercedes-Benz Classic: all of the races as well as the biography of each individual vehicle are presented with the aid of in part unpublished images and illustrations. Its high-quality design as well as its exquisite features make the book a true collector’s item.

Buch, Hardcover im Schuber, 27,8 x 36,5 cm, 600 Seiten, 313 Abbildungen, englischer Text
limitiert auf 999 Exemplare, nummeriert
Einzelstück (Nr. 088/999) - Zustand: neuwertig