Mercedes Benz Museum Stuttgart

[Gary]

This was very rushed, so not the best shots, but i thought you might like to see them anyway.
As explained in a different thread, you walk through the museum in chronological order. The tour takes an hour but ours was 15 mins and we missed everything after about 1950 (apart from the motorsport section)

1 museum on a grey grey day

2 half way between carriages and cars

3 540K Special Roadster. [Possibly a late 500K/380K but unlikely]. Insanely flash, insanely expensive mid 30s roadster and downright dangerous with its swing-axle early IRS. Big blown straight eight

4 540K Special Roadster

5 Earlier model 370? From the early 30s

6 38/250SSK and very racy SSKL [in foreground] 6.6 or 7 litres supercharged straight six cylinder; 2½ tons plus

7 300SL Gullwing coupe circa 1955. Choose your final drive ratio for your own choice of acceleration vs top speed

8 Later 300SL Roadster circa 1959-61 … ultimately the better 300SL with IIRC lower pivoted swing axles

9 badges

10 1994 Penske PC23 Indy car with 500i pushrod engine - McLaren F1 – Sauber Mercedes C9??

sorry about the lack of captions, i didnt even get time to find out what half these cars were

 

[Yv]

I wil get Mr LL to pm you the names... old sod that he is

Looks like a stunning place if Mercedes History is your thing

 

[madferrit]

The "gullwing" has to be my fav of all time.

 

[Gary]

I wil get Mr LL to pm you the names... old sod that he is

Looks like a stunning place if Mercedes History is your thing

if he does i'll edit the post and add the captions...

apart from the racing cars and the gullwing the only caption i know is 'front of the museum'

 

[Joel]

Very nice. Do you have any shots of the sauber C9 in the background of the last shot?

 

[Gary]

added the captions that LadyL(B)enz sent me

 

[Joel]

Thats definately a sauber c9

 

[Gary]

Very nice. Do you have any shots of the sauber C9 in the background of the last shot?

i've got half of it sitting behind the c11

didnt include the shot originally because i didnt like the effect of the flash on it (was shooting from quite a way away)

 

[Joel]

Wow thanks. IMO these are the best cars to go around Lemans.

 

[Gary]

those old group c cars were best racing series ever.

 

[Joel]

Yep them and group 5 aswell.

 

[snappertvr]

WoW, thats got to be worth a trip..

 

[Jelster]

Some nice shots there, especially the 300SL.

For anybody that's interested, there is a really god museum near Strasbourg, known as the "Schlumpf Collection", in the town of Mulhouse.

It's the largest collection of Bugatti's in the world, and has a number of other cars as well. I found it by accident when in the Alsace on holiday.

Link here

(sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread...)