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Showing posts with label Mercedes Benz SS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercedes Benz SS. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 November 2025

1926 Bentley 3 litre

This is a photograph that I took at Luffield corner during the Taylor Woodrow Pre-War Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.
Leading is Duncan Wiltshire in his Bentley 3 litre followed by Peterheinz Kern in his 1928 Mercedes Benz SS.

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

1928 Mercedes Benz SS

I took this photograph at Luffield Corner during the Taylor Woodrow Pre-War Sportscar Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.
It's the 1928 Mercedes Benz SS of Peterheinz Kern which has a supercharged 6-cylinder inline 7.1 litre engine. The following car appears to be the 1935 MG PA of Hamish McNinch.

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

1930 Mercedes Benz SS

This car competed in the Pre-war Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.
It's the 1930 Mercedes Benz SS of Peter-Heinz Kern, chassis GP10 and has a 6-cylinder inline 7,069cc engine. It was originally owned by Sir Malcolm Campbell and was raced by him between 1930 and 1932, including two Irish Grand Prix races and many races at Brooklands, and was fitted with a supercharger in 1931. Sir Malcolm Campbell sold the car in 1932. A note about the car in the programme of the event reads as follows:

'Another fine machine to be inspected is the ex-Sir Malcolm Campbell Mercedes Benz S-type Tourist Trophy racer. Entered by Germany's Peter Kern, the supercharged 7-litre leviathan will cut a dash down the Hangar Straight.'