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What a story!
Guess I'll buy a lotery ticket this weekend...
@deQuincey Thanks for making my morning !
Guess I'll buy a lotery ticket this weekend...
@deQuincey Thanks for making my morning !
The story of Rudolf Caracciola, his 500K, and how it ended up collecting dust at Rudi Klein’s shop turns out to be less film noir than spy novel—
indeed :
"Stashed away for the duration of the war, the 500K proved to be more of a survivor than its owner. But where does one hide a nearly 20-foot-long, 6,000-pound luxury car from marauding scavengers of war? Apparently Ethiopia, where it was covered in tarpaulins and hidden in a manure pile. “It’s incredible what you can sometimes find in a pile of crap,” Tom Hanson said when we discussed this improbable twist. How then did the 500K ever find its way back to the United States?"
full story here:
indeed :
"Stashed away for the duration of the war, the 500K proved to be more of a survivor than its owner. But where does one hide a nearly 20-foot-long, 6,000-pound luxury car from marauding scavengers of war? Apparently Ethiopia, where it was covered in tarpaulins and hidden in a manure pile. “It’s incredible what you can sometimes find in a pile of crap,” Tom Hanson said when we discussed this improbable twist. How then did the 500K ever find its way back to the United States?"
full story here:
rblongboarder
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The Peterson Auto Museum (in LA) has posted two videos about the Rudi Klein garage. I know very little about this story, so I can't comment on whether these videos offer additional insight and / or unique details that were previously unknown:
www.petersen.org
The Rudi Klein Junkyard Collection Tour — Petersen Automotive Museum
Learn more about the Rudi Klein Junkyard Collection -- a hidden gem in the heart of Los Angeles. From Mercedes 300SLs to rare Miuras, Klein collected anything and everything remarkable, and now it's an automotive wonderland. Discover the collection in these videos!
www.petersen.org
