Equipment
Single overhead camshaft supercharged inline 4-cylider, 4-wheel brakes.
Condition
A derelict but complete in its most important aspects rare early Mercedes with supercharged 4-cylinder power designed by Paul Daimler. Found in Portugal five decades after service as an ambulance. Not the correct body, not that there's enough of it to matter, but important and highly unusual. Factory build sheet records the original coachwork as 'Sport-Phaeton-Rohbaukarosserie' and the present chassis and engine numbers as built.
Market commentary
A real find, and one that the grandeur of the Grand Palais setting just begs to be restored to its former stature, a process that will take extensive research and expense but will amply reward its completion. It would be marvelous to see it back here at the Grand Palais in a few years as an example of the transformation and the bidders appropriately valued it at four times Bonhams low estimate.