Ecn-045 Solved: Mercedes-Benz SSKL (streamlined)

Ecnelis · January 16, 2011, 09:15:05 AM

Name the car, name the track, name the driver - all for one, presious point, please.

Ecnelis · February 18, 2011, 06:49:39 PM

Level up.

Iluvatar · February 19, 2011, 03:39:34 AM

Italian?

Limo · February 19, 2011, 04:51:07 AM

Mercedes-Benz SSKL from Manfred von Brauchitsch, he won a race in 1932 with this car (Avus-rennen).
It was the first silver arrow... It was designed by Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld and was called "the Cucumber'.

Ecnelis · February 19, 2011, 07:53:17 AM

Correct, though I've never heard about "the Cucumber". Good to know.

Allemano · February 19, 2011, 09:06:35 AM

He probably said "Gurke"..

Wendax · February 19, 2011, 01:44:33 PM

I came too late

At least I can add that the body was built at Karosserie Vetter in Stuttgart. The car was raced with this body on the Avus race track in Berlin, May 22, 1932, at the "Internationales AVUS-Rennen".

D-type · February 19, 2011, 03:02:53 PM

And there are no doubts that this one was silver - unlike the W25 at the 1934 Eifel-Rennen!

Wendax · October 24, 2014, 04:55:25 AM

Two more views:

Wendax · March 29, 2015, 03:34:36 PM

Fuzzy, but characteristic

grobmotorix · April 03, 2015, 03:42:43 PM

Another rare shot:

Wendax · February 14, 2026, 04:05:49 PM

Another one:

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Ecn-045 Solved: Mercedes-Benz SSKL (streamlined)