This is a photograph taken at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996 and is of a replica of a Mercedes Benz 300SLR made by Proteus Cars Ltd. Proteus are better known for their replica Jaguar D-type, C-type and XJ13. The car next to the Mercedes is a Jaguar XJ13 and the E-Type Lightweight on the far left is also possibly a Proteus car. The 300SLR replica has been built to resemble the Stirling Moss/Denis Jenkinson 1955 Mille Miglia winning car, is one of six replicas made and is possibly the one shown in this Hofmann's website. That website calls it a recreation rather than a replica, but I recall that Denis Jenkinson called all such cars 'fakes'.
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