Check out the Mercedes-Benz 300 aka The Adenaurer [1950's Lu❌ury]
/The 300 model was introduced at the 1951 Frankfurt Motor show. We were six years past WWII and the baby boom was trumpeting along, the average American family income is $3,700, turning signals were starting to become a popular option on cars, and Stalin was making threats that the Soviet Union had an atomic bomb. The Mercedes-Benz 300 was without a doubt Mercedes-Benz’s largest and most prestigious car of its lineup at the time. Top-of-the-line luxury and performance. The only real competitor for the 300 at the time was the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, though silver cloud lacked a bit in performance. Consumers could get the Mercedes-Benz 300 in either a cabriolet or a saloon, and most of the 12,200 produced we saloons.. The Mercedes-Benz 300 had some wreck shop features that made it mighty attractive to business leaders and politicians, the glass partition, dictating machine, mobile telephone. Now three versions were produced in succession, what you see behind me is the 300a ( just 300), and then the 300b and 300c. The first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, had six custom Mercedes Benz 300s. An interesting thing to note is that the Mercedes-Benz 300 shared multiple components and designs with the iconic Mercedes Benz 300Sl “Gullwing” that debuted in 1954 – the same engine, suspension, and chassis Under the hood is a 3 liter overhead cam straight 6 that could crank out 113hp.
