EARS ago, Gooding & Company auction sale price record for the most expensive classic car prototype of 1957 Ferrari 250 TR for U.S. $ 16.39 million at Peeble Beach. It seems that he will break the record again.
'Goods auction' for sale 'predicted it would create a new record for a Mercedes-Benz 540 K Special Roadster von Krieger in 1936.
Auction company founder David Gooding said the vehicle was a Mercedes-Benz pre-war era of the most interesting he had ever encountered. Mercedes 504 K Special Roadster is actually built for the royal family of Prussia in 1936.
In 1942, the car was sent to Switzerland by Baroness Gisela Von Krieger to be secured from the danger of World War II. After the vehicle was brought to the United States and driven by Gisela around Greenwich, Connecticut.
When this noble woman returned to Switzerland, he did not bring the roadster in the U.S. and leave it in a garage over 40 years.
Election car is now restoring the vehicle back in shape like a new car in showrooms. Painted with black and chrome with a Cognac leather interior.
Unfortunately, Gooding & Company are reluctant to release its official price estimates. But he is convinced that special classic car that would break the record for Mercedes-Benz payments made by the RM auction in Monterey last year and quite possibly subvert the Gooding auction record in 2011 mentioned above.
