32 hp, 1,692 cc inline L-head six-cylinder engine, four-speed manual gearbox, four-wheel independent suspension, and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes.

Wheelbase: 2,600 mm The Mercedes-Benz 170, a new compact model for 1931, launched the company into a new segment of the German automobile market.

Selling for 4,400 to 5,575 Reichsmarks, it was nearly half the price of the contemporary Stuttgart 200.

It was available in limousine, roadster, and touring styles, and it also offered four-passenger cabriolets in three different variations.

This Roadster, perhaps the most endearing of all 170 body styles, is handsome in medium grey with dark blue wings and body mouldings.

This example was ordered in September 1933 and to be delivered to its first owner, an industrialist by the name of Gueterman, in Freiburg, Germany.

The rear of this attractive little roadster body is very similar to that of the factory roadster bodies found on some Type 40 and Type 44 Bugattis.

The paint is a quality j...