Mercedes SSK, 1928, brachiale Urgewalt mit 7,1l Hubraum und Kompressor! F1 Rennwagen der 20er Jahre

Well yes, hello dear friends, today we are sitting here again in the Mercedes SSK, this is not our first SSK and the car here is from the 1920s or the late 1920s and for me that is absolutely driving in its purest form, the most fascinating. Fascinating car that has never been driven on a road. Now let's get going and show you how it works. works. This is a car you should drive with double clutch. The SSK is the Formula 1 of the 1920s, the special thing about the car is that they only built 134 chassis of the S, SS and SSK model.

And it got exciting when they lowered the predecessor model, the 630K, put the engine further back and built a really sports car. And that was an SSK of that era, only 35 cars were built and of these 35 cars there are only 6 originals and everything else that they later put on the road either had an accident or no longer exists. Or it was mounted on an S or SS model, as is also the case with our car. our car is................whoa hahaha ah, this of course is phenomenal. The car has a 7.1 liter displacement engine and I can't understand my own words right now and I can't.

I just hope the microphone can record it. It's cold lately, we have eight degrees (celsius) Yeah, I just didn't understand my own word because it was so loud, I don't know what I just said, you have to get used to the car. , has been completely restored the last four years. It had a serious accident in 1930, came into the world as a model S and was returned to Erdmann and Rossi. It had an Erdmann and Rossi body and then was rebuilt with this SSK body and was missing for decades and has now been restored over the last four years with as many original parts as possible.

But if you drive something like this... as far as quality goes, the car is made great, but in reality it is something absolutely fascinating ha... ha... amazing car... isn't it? Well, that is really pure driving, this is a real elephant, pure driving, the machine is sensational, you can tell that it is restored because it makes a sound. Sometimes I don't understand what I'm talking about. I just hope it all made it to the microphone we'll be driving with now, but a sensational car and for me the SSK is the best there is! Listen to that Here's Mercedes, the huge rev counter these are all the original instruments on this car here's the handbrake, the car has a four-speed gearbox and runs at a top speed of about 190 km/h you feel like you have 2.1 tons in your hands.

The big steering wheel here in front is the ignition, the engine runs very well, I can't say anything different. It's got drum brakes, it's got rigid axles, it's got leaf springs, just that, which was the coolest thing in the automotive industry in

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, ooh, you really need it. Grab this elephant so it doesn't run away. So this is nothing for nice people. Well, one thing is for sure: driving the Mercedes SSK is always a real adventure, so I have to concentrate a lot and each of these cars is unique, each one drives differently. It takes a moment to get used to it, but a ride like this is exceptionally sensational, a fascinating car, no power steering, no ABS, nothing at all.

Yes, well, that was a trip in a Mercedes SSK, for me it is always the best, the most. The most exciting and fascinating thing that exists. And since it was also important for Daimler Benz, we have an original book with the Mercedes gold star and that means the racing history of Daimler Benz AG. It is original, it is from the early 1930s and with this car the basis of Daimler Benz's fame was founded. It was also the last car that Professor Porsche designed for Mercedes, later he went on to design the VW as well. but SSK was Ferdinand Porsche's brainchild, this crazy machine, so the following was done: in the early '20s there was the 630K which was still relatively tall and they just did something sporty with it.

They installed the radiator, the entire car. It was lowered by 25 cm and suddenly they had a real sports car. They did hill climbs in cars like that, it was absolutely fashionable at the time and the best thing about the SSK was that it was the only car where that was possible: it was also a Formula 1 car for private drivers. This car is actually the Formula 1 car from the 1920s. When Daimler Benz made Grand Prix cars in 1934, that was no longer possible. You, as an individual, could be a baron or a very rich nobleman and you no longer always drive the Grand Prix cars used in the Nürburgring Eifel Prize German Grand Prix races, so what is there since 1927? and then it was? the popular car of its time and also for private drivers if you said it's my hobby, I want to drive it, you were treated in sska of course you need a lot of money, it cost 32,000 reich marks At that time, it was crazy.

A huge sum, but to this day a real original SSK could be mentioned. There are six pieces of the cars that are sold for up to 30 million. I've heard of higher offers. Cars have no price and, of course, they have it because they have it. This shorter wheelbase, so the SS model came about and then the SSK, which was Super Sport, in short, people then shortened their wheelbase by 30 cm and of course they were able to participate in super cool races, those were cars that weren't just crunchy. They had these giant machines with 7.1 liters and a supercharger, but they were also great at cornering, in fact it happened yesterday in 1933, now that it's over, there were just Romeos here, they were faster because they were smaller, they took better turns. curves too because If a car like this were lighter, it always weighs 2.1 tonnes and the example we have here has been fantastically restored and has all the other fenders.

There were two types, so one that was elongated, this is ours, which goes backwards or then goes down. That was all the one I had last time, it looks like this and then it's just the color scheme of the quality of the work. We had the car here with the best mechanic there is for this industry. He's someone who's just had something. related to cars all his life now he was in the technical department here also look at the leather it already seems to be aging I have done it well The car was completely restored from 20 15 to 20 19 and many parts here The details of the car are original from the period which, as I said, had a serious accident in 1930, the car was reconditioned when it was that old.

Frame came into the world with an Erdmann and Rossi Berlin body from Berlin, you know, that was the most. important check here in the 30s for Mercedes and other special luxury brands and then you have it. At that time they put an SSK body on it and then the car was missing for decades and then, as I said, it was rebuilt with the chassis number. , then you can say that it is a reconstruction that is absolutely authentic with many original parts and that is what I just noticed. Driving it was really cool, the car and it looks like we got to see something not quite original which, by the way, is the star on the front didn't really exist like that, but only with the SS or with the S with the SSK you only had this here on the front without a star here is the thermometer on the front coolant it was made here it looks impressive of course and it is really an absolutely crazy car, these are original lamps from the time, look there is a horn in the front, then it has a strong one here in the front, which was just a design feature of the time, it was more modern back then, here in the front are the leaf springs you can see huge drum brakes they also need them because if you have two pulls of cable but where it was noticed yes no hydraulic brakes and natural saliva it is important that they are well centered such clearance in the front I myself had an SSK for a few years you always have to be careful from 140 it works then like this and then you brake a car at that speed and it doesn't run straight is that one thing yes here well as I said this absolutely crazy book there are all the results of the Daimler Benz races and in each race it was stated that we have the original Book of that time, fortunately I have a very Well, it came with me, yes, and the good thing about the car is, look, that it is the only Formula 1 car that private individuals could drive, that was no longer the case after 1934 and that is why these cars are absolutely sought after today in day, that's actually the non plus ultra in collector circles and if the real one costs 30 million and more, who's coming? no one at all because it is not sold to anyone.

A car like this costs several million of course, the rest I will discuss with me personally, but it also costs well under 10 million and that is always a negotiation, they are all individual parts, it is important that the chassis number is authentic. , that's the type of car, there are no two cars, so there are no two cars, so you can understand the story quite well, but as I said, it was a serious accident and then a lot of things were rebuilt, yes, our Mercedes SSK. Since

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we have had it in a Bavarian meadow. Now I have to take off my glasses and stuff.

Putting the cap back on, yes, it's fascinating, but it's also real work, so driving the car is work, there's no other way to put it. , you have to really face it, so if I have driven a car like this for a long time, then I know what I have done, yes they are even at that time, the Milles drove these cars with me and they were always on par with the first, they won a lot in the alpine race, that's why there were many participants also in the opening of the Nürburgring in 1927 and 1933. It was over, then the six-cylinder series was eliminated and then it started with the 18 380 Mercedes that was your other world they were in the

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stein boulevard driving a car couldn't be more fascinating my mind is idle here and there is the button dear friends it was absolutely exciting Driving with our Mercedes SSK we could see I'm a little disheveled but you can say a saying so this is really nothing for stamp collectors it is for me the most fascinating car that exists series 06 and 1927 to 1933 the car is fascinating it has real power that reaches up to 190, I think you can say that it is really great and how the machine looks now, I will turn it off now, it is relatively noisy, you can hear it, and how these six cylinders are being removed, our colleague is already doing the tasks of the connoisseur, he will show you that now in the front maybe on the right side where you can see the manifold so beautiful, the gas is on the left, they have yes, two double carburetors and then I go up.

Schorsch opens it for a moment, just be careful, take a look, it doesn't mean it hurts, let's click left, everything is fine, it's fine, under tension, like I said, just restored, now let's take a look, there you can see the two huge carburetors. Yes. The leather straps on each hood were from the 1920s. So it's an absolutely crazy design, it's a pure car and every time I drive a car like that or go out I get an absolute tingling feeling. I think you'll notice that too, so it couldn't be more fun to drive a car than this one. one, hey look at that, the cooler is already meters high, more or less that is the machine, the two huge Daimler carburetors, here in front is the compressor it is a Mercedes compressor with the compressor on it has between 220 and 250 hp there was even one with an elephant type compressor because it is good for 300 hp.

There is a huge engine block. The other side is DMG from Daimler motorengesellschaft, which by the way is the tank for gasoline. In the case of gasoline, there must be pumps at the front. so that this is filled here. At that time there were no electric gasoline pumps. I don't think you have that here either if you fill it up, fill it up, so the car has a 120 liter tank, by the way, now I'm only interested in the consumption values, so I only know when it's empty who filled it. That was back then too, so I can tell you anyway that I need 25 to 35 liters, since we just drove, that's why the 120 liter tank is there by the way.

At the rear you can also see the filler necks here. so everything is enormously powerful. The car of the Weimar Republic was based on a great car of the time, God knows, and Daimler Benz's global reputation was based precisely on the Mercedes SSK from '27 to '33. For me, that is the pinnacle of the automobile. production, that's all, I think we said the most important things about the Mercedes SSK, we were lucky today that it didn't rain, we said it's already November when the SSK doesn't care, we'll get a water hose and spray it ourselves, again, no you have salt we still don't make a movie like this every day and when you have a car like this you can only buy it, it's here at the fireworks, then we'll film We also want to show you what's there.

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