Kurt Ernst August 17, 2012 Comment Now! Dating back to an era when style was as important as function, and there was no such thing as “over-engineered,” the Mercedes-Benz 540K was likely the pinnacle ...

Last year, Gooding & Company smashed the record for the highest amount paid for a car at auction when the 1957 Ferrari 250 TR Prototype sold for $16.39 million at Pebble Beach. Now the auction house ...

The 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster once owned by Baroness Gisela Josephine von Krieger will be offered for sale by Gooding and Co. at its Monterey auction in August. The car is rare because ...

Vern Hance, who lives in the East Bay, bought himself a partly finished replica car kit -- the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster -- 10 years ago. At that time, the previous owner had been ...

The 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster was owned by German Baroness Gisela von Krieger, whose family brought it to the U.S. after World War II. It could break the $16.4 million record for any ...

Designed by Friedrich GeigerIn the mid-1930s, the 500K and then the 540K reigned atop the Mercedes-Benz car line, and their most fabulous iteration was the Special Roadster. Casting a shadow greater ...

It looks as if it was plucked out of an old, glamorous, black-and-white Hollywood film. But the gleaming, silver 1936 Mercedes-Benz convertible with the red leather interior was built in Joe Johnson’s ...

The automotive factories of today utilize computers and robots in order to produce different combinations of cars in short order. The buyer is able to choose different options, colors, and accessories ...

Later this month one of the world’s rarest cars will hit the auction block during California’s Pebble Beach Classic Car Week. The 1936 Mercedes-Benz Von Krieger 540K Special Roadster is worthy of its ...

This month sees the auction of a Mercedes with a history spanning eight decades that includesa baroness, a lavish jet-set lifestyle and some ancient cigarettes In 1992, when David Gooding worked in ...

The 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster is another model to have set multiple records at auction. The less expensive of the two once belonged to F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, who sold it for about ...

While it has always been overshadowed by the rarer Mercedes-Benz 540K Spezial Roadster, the Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet A is still regarded by many as the prettiest of the 540K siblings, with an ...