World record price: £115 million for 300 SLR coupe?

[LotusOmega375D]

Rumoured to have been bought by someone in the UK. Anyone on here?

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/news-articles/h...

[Turbobanana]

LotusOmega375D said:

Rumoured to have been bought by someone in the UK. Anyone on here?

https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/news-articles/h...

I thought about it. Looked at the finances etc. Realised I was only about £114,999,950 short but it was just out of reach.

[DodgyGeezer]

That's insanity.

[LotusOmega375D]

Better value than that Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe picture though.

[austin]

From the article:

Editor’s note: This is a developing story that includes informed speculation – details may prove inaccurate. We will be updating it as we learn more.

[av185]

Who said used car prices were falling? :

[georgeyboy12345]

Silly money. It’ll be funny if the market tanks

[Fink-Nottle]

Mercedes are flush with money. Why would they offload this car from their own historical collection?

[2ZZ Top]

WBAC have already offered the new owner £3,495 for it.

[LotusOmega375D]

Fink-Nottle said:

Mercedes are flush with money. Why would they offload this car from their own historical collection?

I guess they see it as a duplicate. Keep the first one and cash in on the second.

I remember being at the Silverstone Classic in 1990, when Neil Corner debuted his freshly restored W154. It did some parade laps with the MB museum cars. He then cheekily entered it into a single seater race. Because he hadn’t qualified, he started from the back of the grid. We saw him go past at the first corner as he made his way through the pack, but that was the last we saw of it. He got T-boned by the spinning Riley of Barrie Gillies (father of Supercar Classics editor Mark Gillies). Such a shame. Just found a couple of photos on-line: looks scary!

[Oligen]

Quite a speculative article. Mind you, although it would suprise me if it had been sold, previously they have not been too precious about their heritage; IIRC their blue wonder race transporter got scrapped as it was in the way.

[nsa]

Compare this to the Marilyn Warhol picture that sold for $195m last week. A piece of art you can drive, and Mercedes has the only other example. It gives the buyer entry into basically any car event worldwide. A 250 GTO is common by comparison.

[67Dino]

Potential buyers are believed to have been hosted over lunch at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, with key collectors flying in on private jets on 6 May.

I am imagining a scene like from Casino Royale here. Pretty exclusive lunch.

[williamp]

An addition to Bernies collection?? Might be seen at Biggin hill soon

[Super Sonic]

Damn, didn't know it was for sale, guess I'll have to keep the Accord.

[thegreenhell]

Very surprised at this if it's true. They could have just got Crosthwaite and Gardiner to knock up a run of replicas and sold them at a few million each.

[Largechris]

Having read the article, I still only have a vague idea of what it is.

It doesn't share anything with a 300SL I assume?

[thegreenhell]

Largechris said:

Having read the article, I still only have a vague idea of what it is.

It doesn't share anything with a 300SL I assume?

Nothing at all shared with the 300SL road car.

It's a 300SLR like the one that Moss used to win the Mille Miglia, basically a two seater version of the W196 F1 car, but fitted with a coupe body. They built two of them, never raced, but Rudolph Uhlenhaut (the Adrian Newey of his day) used one of them as his road car.

Simon Kidston's video of the Uhlenhaut Coupe: https://vimeo.com/114753342

Edited by thegreenhell on Monday 16th May 11:35

[Largechris]

thegreenhell said:

Nothing at all shared with the 300SL road car.

It's a 300SLR like the one that Moss used to win the Mille Miglia, basically a two seater version of the W196 F1 car, but fitted with a coupe body. They built two of them, never raced, but Rudolph Uhlenhaut (the Adrian Newey of his day) used one of them as his road car.

Simon Kidston's video of the Uhlenhaut Coupe: https://vimeo.com/114753342

Edited by thegreenhell on Monday 16th May 11:35

Ok cheers

Seems strong money for a car with no race history, whichever collection it was in.

So one would assume that if an Auto Union ever came up it would be more valuable still?

[nsa]

"Simon Kidston's video of the Uhlenhaut Coupe: https://vimeo.com/114753342"

Based on that video I imagine driving it would be an anti-climax. Noisy, hot, uncomfortable. Apart from rarity it doesn't have much going for it over the GTO. I'd be amazed if Bernie bought it.