Mercedes 28/95 with phaeton bodywork by Reutter for ???

[grobmotorix]

Much closer than Reutlingen, but not in Zuffenhausen...

[RayTheRat]

Reutter (Stuttgart) is a lot closer to Sindelfingen...about 18 km from it, I think.

RtR

[grobmotorix]

And that´s it. Congrats! Your point.

Reutter was even closer to Untertürkheim than 18 km before they´ve moved to the Zuffenhausen plant in 1937 (they were bought by Porsche in 1963).


I will not move this to the "solved"-section, because I will award another point to anybody who can tell me the correct customer ( I don´t know him/her)

[João]

I have another picture :

[Wendax]

Unfortunately the book doesn't tell the customer.  :(
The puzzle picture was taken at the 1921 automobile exhibition in Berlin.

[guido66]

I had this car in my archive to post as a puzzle one day. My source claims that it cost 350,000 Mark and that the bodywork was covered in gold and enamel.  :o

[Manuel]

Do the markings on the body mean anything?

Manuel in Oz

[Wendax]

I had this car in my archive to post as a puzzle one day. My source claims that it cost 350,000 Mark and that the bodywork was covered in gold and enamel.  :o

The Reutter book just describes it as a chased aluminium body.

[guido66]

Do the markings on the body mean anything?

Manuel in Oz

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Here's a more detailed view for you to study  ;)

[grobmotorix]

It must have been a nightmare to maintain the surface in such a perfect state.

I wonder if they´ve coated it with transparent paint.

But it is over the top craftmenship, of course.

[grobmotorix]

Let´s dump this down into the black hole.

I do not move this to the solved section until I know, who was the buyer back then.

[4popoid]

While prowling the Black Hole, I came across this piece of art that I decided to spend a bit of time on.  The results of this research are mixed, in that I have a buyer, but the source does not cite a specific name, nor specific nationality.  It is probably not enough for the point, but my reference says (according to the Google translation): " After the fair was sold the car, or artwork, to an Arab customer."

[grobmotorix]

Right, but that is not a name, sorry... :(

[pnegyesi]

was it to someone in Egypt?

[grobmotorix]

I do not know, sorry... :-\

[pnegyesi]

I checked both Allgemeine Automobil Zeitung (German edition) and Motor. The car was described but no customer info :(

[thorax]

found on the web:
"At the auto show in Berlin in 1921 was this car in the Mercedes stand.

The body was a work, or rather works by Reutter, and was built entirely in aluminum. Then the tomb was the unpainted body laboriously in an extreme art nouveau and should be brought a lot of attention. After the fair sold the car, or artwork to an Arab customer, the prize read the full 26,000 Reichsmarks, in today's money equivalent to about 3.5 million."

nothing about the name of the customer

[grobmotorix]

Well, that is exactly what I want to know.

As I do not know it myself it would be great to find somebody who can provide any more information about this fabulous car...

[pnegyesi]

Automobil-Flugwelt: picture yes, description no

[grobmotorix]

 :-\

It would definitly be interesting to know some details about the customer...