• Sold new in Germany • Resident in Romania for over 60 years • Professionally restored in the USA in the early 1990s • Former participant on the Mille Miglia retrospective • Present ownership since 2003 • Recently recommissioned by Jim Stokes Workshops Ltd.

We have Emil Jellinek to thank for the existence of the 'Mercedes' marque.

Jellinek, a wealthy Leipzig-born businessman, was an admirer of the cars of Gottlieb Daimler, and had won the touring car class at the La Turbie hill climb in 1899 at the wheel of one of Daimler's creations.

Jellinek began selling Daimlers to wealthy enthusiasts on the French Riviera, and it was the death of Wilhelm Bauer at the wheel of one of these cars that prompted Jellinek to demand something better.

Bauer had crashed while competing in the 1900 La Turbie hill climb, and Jellinek believed that the Daimler's top-heavy design had been a major contributing factor.

He demanded something with a lower centre of gravity and commissioned the pioneering man...