The Adenauer Mercedes
The breakaway atmosphere in post was Germany: Also the automobile industrie is back in action and picked up on its past performance from pre war years. At the IAA in Frankfurt, in april 1951 Daimler–Benz presents the type 300d as the biggest and at that time the fastest serial manufactured car of German production.Within a veryshort time this model is the preference vehicle for prominent personalities of politics, commerce and cinema.The federal president Theodor Heuss and minister for economic affairs Ludwig Erhard are driven in the 300er. But the model became famous as the “Adenauer Mercedes”, then the first federal chancellor emphasized the importance of only being driven in the 300er.In august 1957 the Mercedes–Benz type 300 was presented as a modernized version: the 300d,which became available as a cabriolet D in July 1958.Only 65 units of them were ever built, at the proud price for those time of 37.000,- DM.The appearance of the 300 d, cabriolet D with its pontoon shaped contours is simple and yet impressively elegant.Conspicuous is the four door body work, the panorama rear window and the spacious trunk.
Technical data of the original vehicle:
6 cylinder in line engine, with 160 hp at 5,300 rpm, Top speed: 165 km / h, Fuel supply: Suction pipe, fuel injection with a Bosch injection pump, Serially produced with a 3 speed automatic transmission with the selector lever on the steering column.
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