As Lentinello noted the other day, the Veteran Motor Car Club of America now allows vehicles up through the 1986 model year to participate in its tours and judging. For our Class of 1986 series, that simply means that we have another metric to judge a car’s collectibility by – would you see yourself driving […]
While a number of specially built vehicles have ferried around the last few popes in papal appearances around the world, the manufacturer that provided the basis for many of them has been Mercedes-Benz. One of those specially built papal Mercedes-Benzes will make its U.S. debut next month at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Based on […]
So what is the traditional gift for a 125-year anniversary, anyway? Mercedes-Benz will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of the January 29, 1886, filing of Karl Benz’s patent on his three-wheel “gas engine-powered vehicle,” which has been historically considered as the very first practical automobile. The two companies that would combine in 1926 to become […]