you're nicked, my son!

[messerschmitt owner]

Found this lovely image in Exeter on Saturday - a Mercedes 500K I reckon - but what a life it must have had! This was 1950s autoshite! Look at the state of those wings...

 

Also looks like the rozzers are looking forward to the trip back to the station.

 

mercedes benz 500 cabriolet by messerschmitt owner, on Flickr

[Justin Case]

Not a 500K, but something even more exotic, a 770K, allegedly Goering's car and captured by the Allies at the end of the war. Those two members of the Devonshire Constabulary's finest may not actually be looking pleased because they are off to invade Poland (they would probably run out of petrol before Dover in any case ) but are helping to raise money for charity on the cars tour of Britain shortly after the end of the war

 

More details here:

 

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_99431-Merc ... -1938.html

[RedSparrow]

What alf said makes sense. I thought it strange that British Police would be using a German car so soon after the end of the war.

[Volksy]

And more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_770

[messerschmitt owner]

you know, I already have a brochure done in 1945 for 'visit Goering's car'.

 

I should have realised when I saw the thickness of the window frames that it was seriously armour plated.

[DSdriver]

I love old photos like this of posh cars looking shabby. After the war they were worth sod-all. There used to be a Rolls Royce ice cream van came around to our flats in Penge when I was a kid in the mid fifties.

You can't tell, because the copper is standing in the way, but the one in your photo looks like it might have been a four door cabrio. Compare it with this two door that I snapped when its transporter broke down near me in the late seventies/early eighties.

Mercedes 500K roadster? by DSdriver, on Flickr

Here is a view of the back,the hood is much lower.

Mercedes 500K by DSdriver, on Flickr

(thats my CX estate in the back ground)

Here is a close up of the bonnet, note the name: British Mercedes Benz in a slightly wonky post war fashion.

Mercedes convertible by DSdriver, on Flickr

The guy with the boiler suit was taking it to Holland to restore. The diff had stripped on his cabover landrover transporter. Not surprising really on a steep hill with a Bugatti on the Landy and the Merc on a trailer. He was fixing it by the roadside. Autoshite transporter.

[PhilA]

you know, I already have a brochure done in 1945 for 'visit Goering's car'.

 

I should have realised when I saw the thickness of the window frames that it was seriously armour plated.

 

 

I have never really seen "ragtop" and "armour plated" as anything but an oxymoron.

 

--Phil

[HMC]

Goering had IIRC a specially comissioned 540k roadster that was nicknamed 'the blue goose'. That too was almost sagging on its springs with armour plating, whilst ironically a rag top. Advancing US troops found it, it was then sent to the usa for a tour of the states. Eventually it was sold off in an army surplus sale in the mid 50s

[forddeliveryboy]

Whose was the CX Break? I'd prefer a truly sweet late 70s/early 80s one of those to what was on the trailer. Much more useable with just as much rarity value, but without the hassle of owning a car worth a six-figure sum!

[155V6]