The previous item about the Mercedes-Benz
celebrations at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed reminded me of an
article I wrote some years back (and I can’t find it now!) about a rather unique
Mercedes-Benz vehicle. It was called the ‘Blue Miracle’.
In 1954 the company built a high-speed race
car transporter for its Silver Arrows which it used that year and the following
year. Its sole purpose was to provide rapid transport of spare cars to the race
track or damaged cars back to the plant.
Based on a 300S saloon, the forward cab enabled
a flat platform to be built behind it to carry the race cars. With a 3 litre/196
bhp engine, this 6.75 metre long machine was claimed to have a top speed of 105
mph!
Sadly it was scrapped in 1967 long before
folks thought of transport museums and heritage, but in 1993 the Mercedes-Benz Museum
commissioned an exact replica to be built and this is it.

The hope is that this will be one of the
surprises that Mercedes-Benz is planning for this year’s Goodwood. Fingers
crossed.
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