The single most pursued Full Classic automobile of the last half-century A one-off car built for Mercedes-Benz’s legendary champion racing driver, Rudi Caracciola Documented by a copy of its build sheet, bearing Caracciola’s name Formerly owned by legendary California enthusiasts Dr.

Milton Roth and M.L.

“Bill” Post Acquired by Rudi Klein in 1979; hidden away and not seen by the public since 1980 The long-awaited opportunity to acquire and freshly restore one of the most famous and desired of all Mercedes-Benzes THE RAIN MASTER At the dawn of the automobile, the great figures came not from the burgeoning industry, but from seemingly nowhere—founts of talent that just seemed to be in the right place, at the right time, and climbed not from class to class, but from job to job.

Such was the case of Rudolf Caracciola, born in Germany to Italian parents, who enjoyed cars and so apprenticed at an automobile factory as a young man, eventually became a car salesman for Daimler in Dresden, a...