Mercedes-Benz 540K - Blue Goose

1938 Mercedes-Benz 540k Special Roadster at Auto & Technik Museum, Sinsheim

 Mercedes-Benz 540K launched Special Product 540Ks in 1936. Designed on the short 2,980 mm (117 in) wheelbase chassis, the body was carefully crafted. Its price of 28,000 marks, some RM6, 000 above the price of standard models, meant only 32 were ever built.

Mercedes-Benz W29 Cabriolet, Baujahr 1939. d'Elegance 2002 in Schwetzingen

Hermann Göring ordered a Reichsmarschall 540Ks in your favorite color of blue with your family crest on both doors in 1937. Included sides breast plates of bullet-proof glass. Dubbed the Blue Goose, Goering was often photographed in the car.

1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet in the Cité de Automobile, Mulhouse, France

 

Company C, 326th Engineers, "Screaming Eagles" Airborne Division entered Berchtesgaden 101, and find the car took office On May 4, 1945, the U.S. Army. Major General Maxwell Taylor used his car as the vehicle control in West Germany until he was commissioned by the U.S. Treasury. Sent to Washington, DC, successfully toured the United States on a tour title win. The car was auctioned by the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, sold at Jacques Tunick Greenwich, Conn., with a high bid of $ 2,167 in 1956.

1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet B

He sold it to the private collection of veterinarian Dr. George Bitgood, Jr., who was repainted in black and chrome in 1958. Private Bitgood appears only once in the county fair 1973 in Durham, Connecticut. After the death of Dr. Bitgood, the Blue Goose was shown by his family Reunion in the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in June 2002. She was then sold to Carnlough International Limited, Guernsey, on the agreement that it be restored to its "as is" condition in Berchtesgaden.

1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet B at Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart

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