"Hitler's Favorite Car Makes Comeback" (MB Content)
"Hitler's Favorite Car Makes Comeback" (MB Content)
BERLIN (Reuters) - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler's favorite Merc[font=Courier]edes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen.
"It was the best car in the world at the time. Better than the Bugatti, Bentley, Rolls Royce or whatever," Froehlich told Reuters from his office in Duesseldorf. "It was his favorite car: the one he used most often, which he used for parades."
My favorite part was the end:
"The Mercedes sales register shows this 770 K model was ordered for the Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich in 1935," he said.
Only 88 of the series were ever made and the Braunschweig car showed all the special modifications made for Hitler, who had to be driven because he had no "Fuehrerschein" -- a German word made up from "driver" and "license" -- Froehlich said.
"He was a Fuehrer without Fuehrerschein," he said.
Wha? Did he have outstanding fines, or something?
CID Vicious
11-25-2009, 09:17 PM #1http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnou...U320091124
BERLIN (Reuters) - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler's favorite Merc[font=Courier]edes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen.
"It was the best car in the world at the time. Better than the Bugatti, Bentley, Rolls Royce or whatever," Froehlich told Reuters from his office in Duesseldorf. "It was his favorite car: the one he used most often, which he used for parades."
My favorite part was the end:
"The Mercedes sales register shows this 770 K model was ordered for the Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich in 1935," he said.
Only 88 of the series were ever made and the Braunschweig car showed all the special modifications made for Hitler, who had to be driven because he had no "Fuehrerschein" -- a German word made up from "driver" and "license" -- Froehlich said.
"He was a Fuehrer without Fuehrerschein," he said.
Wha? Did he have outstanding fines, or something?
I'll bet plenty of people who have to share the road with tweeked out long haul truckers might have something to counter said truckers with, as far as driving ability, though I must say, Greyhound drivers have run me off of the road more than any other heavy vehicle.
Also up there, they have the 260D, the very first diesel production passenger car, with the unfortunate association with the SS and brown shirts. It's kind of funny, because VW bugs usually get the 'Hitler Wagon' association, and yet...maybe we know why there's never been another 260D?
CID Vicious
12-02-2009, 05:23 PM #5Last I heard, the drug tests have gotten so bad that that's no longer true, though it certainly used to be. Although, you're probably talking about snorting a so-so quality product vs. waking up to an injection of the finest the Reich labs could offer...
I'll bet plenty of people who have to share the road with tweeked out long haul truckers might have something to counter said truckers with, as far as driving ability, though I must say, Greyhound drivers have run me off of the road more than any other heavy vehicle.
Also up there, they have the 260D, the very first diesel production passenger car, with the unfortunate association with the SS and brown shirts. It's kind of funny, because VW bugs usually get the 'Hitler Wagon' association, and yet...maybe we know why there's never been another 260D?
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