Nice. Excellent photos for a display setting. It is of course one of the 1954-55 Grand Prix cars. I believe the 16 car was driven by Stirling Moss. It usually resides in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. But is often loaned out for shows. It dominated Grand Prix racing until the horrific accident at Le Mans led Mercedes to quite all motorsports. It is notable for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly, from a technical point of view, is that it was the first car to use direct fuel injection, which didn’t become an industry norm for another 60 years.
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 7:44 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Saw this gorgeous Mercedes-Benz W196 GP car this morning... > > https://flic.kr/p/VB3DeY > https://flic.kr/p/VB3DNo > https://flic.kr/p/VB3EbC > > Gods, what a beautiful machine! > > enjoy! > G > — > The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
