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Only a handful of men could claim to have given birth to the automotive age. Three of them – Karl Friedrich Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, and Wilhelm Maybach – sit at the top of the lineage that traces directly to the Mercedes-Benz of today.
Karl Benz...
Re-creating the 190SL Exhibition Car
Article by Jim Luikens
Photographs by Frank Pierce, A Southern Studio
Herb Shriner was a 1950s TV personality and well-known “Car Guy” in a day and age when that term had yet to be coined. Each year he promoted...
Parked next to one another in a row of the Kemp Automobile Museum collection in St. Louis, the effect on the observer of these three 220SEs – a sedan, a coupe, and a cabriolet – can be described in one word: magical. All in similar shades of red,...
Mercedes-Benz 540K
with a Split Personality
Article and Photography by Scott Grundfor
When they first see it – and they’ll be more likely to see it on the road than on the show field, with the owner reveling in the breeze across the open car – even...
Mercedes-Benz re-established its presence in motorsports with its win on the 1952 Carrera Panamericana. In March of this year, those memories were stirred to life when a dozen SLS AMGs joined the SLs in Oaxaca to rerun that fabled route. We were...
