Showing posts with label Mercedes Benz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercedes Benz. Show all posts
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Mercedes S Class, a couple of firsts
First with electronic antilock brakes
first with 3 point seatbelts,
first with sat nav,
first with airbags
Source, Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson
first with 3 point seatbelts,
first with sat nav,
first with airbags
Source, Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
1960 300Sl roadster donated to Greek town to austion for funds for town park
You'll need a translator like Google Chrome to read the article for yourself, but basically
Pireaus, a city in Greece honored the memory of Kriton Dilaveri, by selling the car he left the city, and they got 405,000 Greek currency units, naming a park for Dilaveri. The German bidder Rajina Hildebrandt won the car at auction
Found on http://www.highoctane.gr/photo.aspx?sbj=2446&pic=8&comp=mercedes-benz
Pireaus, a city in Greece honored the memory of Kriton Dilaveri, by selling the car he left the city, and they got 405,000 Greek currency units, naming a park for Dilaveri. The German bidder Rajina Hildebrandt won the car at auction
Found on http://www.highoctane.gr/photo.aspx?sbj=2446&pic=8&comp=mercedes-benz
Sunday, October 23, 2011
That awkward moment when you crash a $12 million Ferrari... and a couple other cool photos from Asaucerfulofwheels.tumblr.com
That awkward moment when you crash a $12 million Ferrari, http://asaucerfulofwheels.tumblr.com/post/11862140196/david-love-ferrari-250-tr-monterey-historics-2009 tp see it in slow mo
David Love/Ferrari 250TR/Monterey Historics/2009
Timo Mäkinen Mini Cooper S RAC Rally 1967. http://rcma.free.fr/escort/victoires.htm 
Hitchcock in a big cart... never would have thought I'd ever see that!
1934 Mercedes-Benz 500K Streamline Roadsterm, built for a King of Iraq, Erdmann & Rossi coachbuilders
all found on http://asaucerfulofwheels.tumblr.com/
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
a variety of interesting things found while browsing through the library online photos
George B. Selden in his first automobile, patented 1895... but marked 1877 because that was the year he made it. 

a photo of the first automobile
1886 Benz
1903 Olds Pirate, a one cylinder special race car that held a record for the one mile speed record
1904 curved dash Olds 1907 sports racer
1906 Stanley
Suposed to be the first limo in America
J. M. Quinby & Company; Builders of aluminum automobile bodies 1909
Stuck in a mud hole (DEEP one) in Texas 1919Mercer
I noticed the odd sign above the storefront "Automobile Jobbers"
1944 east 138th street ... and that truck bed in the bottom of the photo looks handmade, and put into the rumble seat area... was the neat trick to shift a car classification during fuel rationing during WW2 from car to commercial truck and then it could get more gas more often if I recall correctly.. and this is a 1944 photo
Electric car about 1905, on the charger in the garage
The Czar leaving the racecourse at Krasnoe Selo, in his 40 horse-power Delaunay Belleville in 1909
Above racing at Indy
Above and below, racing at Ormand Beach
Barney Oldfield in the advertising
the trophys from the 1908 Prince Henry tour
1922 advertisement
this advertisement was captioned "his Herreshoff car"
The Pullman car Palmyra
Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan. December 23, 1935
found while searching around at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital
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