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863 619 Commission No.

399 899 Here we offer one of the most extraordinary 1930s-origin Mercedes-Benz high-performance quality cars that we haveever been commissioned to present.

It began life in 1938 as one of the renowned German company's most exotic and highest-quality models – a 540K with Sindelfingen Cabriolet B coachwork bought new as prestige VIP transport for the original Volkswagenwerke 'VW Beetle' programme.

It was then, in 1942-43, requisitioned as one of only twenty such 540Ks requisitioned for the Third Reich's emergency Aktion P VIP armoured saloon car programme – under which it was issued not to any one high-ranking individual personality, but instead to the Reichskanzellerie Berlin Motor Pool for use by all.

After surviving the war – today as one of only three known Aktion P s to have done so – it went on to have an extremely positive effect upon at least one young life, and in part its extraordinary story reads like the basis of a Hollywood movie script.
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