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Restoration...
Restored: 2003
complete professional restoration to the highest degree. Engine professionally restored throughout. All restoration work is documented.
Exterior...
This car has frame and engine No 440704. From 1940-1947 Erhard Wendler (Reutlingen) performed coach work on the standard cabriolet D body, and this car was changed by the company to an aluminum streamlined sport cabriolet. At that time, Wendler firm worked together with the Superleggera designers, and thus the front of the car took on the styling of an Italian automobile of its day.
In 1950 the owner of this car was Robert Koenig who presented this car to the famous German ballerina Lilia Zeisner. She held this car privately in Konstanz, Germany for many years.
Mechanical...
all original: engine-DB M-142,3405c.cm. all parts of transmission are original W-142.
Notes...
Beautifully Restored. Numbers matching. Aluminum streamlined sport cabriolet. Coachwork by Wendler from a Cab D Mercedes Benz in 1945. The history and restoration work is well documented.
Top speed 120kph. We have many photos of before, during and after restoration. This car was once owned by a famous Ballerina who entertained many in Germany before and during war times. The car was given to her as a gift.
Wendler's first motor bodies were built in 1919, and they also supplied bodies for commercial trucks. Their portfolio is genuinely fascinating and includes many highly advanced streamlined designs on BMW, Mercedes-Benz and even Ford V8 chassis. Perhaps their most famous relationship was with Porsche, for whom Wendler bodied several road-going 356s in addition to creating the svelte coachwork for the legendary 550 Spyder, RSK, and RS61 racing cars.
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