I worked for MB back in the mid eighties. On a trip to Stuttgart I had the pleasure of meeting with the staff responsible for maintaining the Silver Arrow's at the company museum. I was offered the opportunity to sit in Moss’s 300 SLR #710. Talk about the hair standing up on your neck.
I remember stopping at our local Amoco station to buy their white gas. We used it in our Coleman lantern and cooking stove while in Boy Scouts.
The Shelby American Museum in Boulder, Co. has a fund raiser right now of a coin with Ken's face on it. They look incredible.
Looks like the Heinrich Chevrolet building in Rochester, NY. Heinrich opened their dealership in 1933 at 214 Lake Ave. (We called that area the "LA Strip" in the 50's and 60's because of all the car dealerships on that stretch of road. As kids we would walk the strip when the new cars came out and stop at all the different dealers. Most would give us plastic promo models of the new cars. Some of us would customize them, trade them or if we didn't like them, we would blow them up with a firecracker.) The building had several facelifts over the years and is still there. Heinrich closed that dealership in 1981.
1955. Sam Gray, David Rutford and Fred Hallberg begin their cruise down the Mississippi river from Saint Paul Minnesota on a homemade raft. The raft was built of barrels and planks. Power for the propeller was provided by a 1939 Chevrolet they had paid $15 for. The car had 172,000 miles on it. The rear wheels of the car ran against another set of wheels which turned the propeller. The car's steering wheel turned the raft's rudder. On July 25 1955 the trio reached New Orleans. They planned to drive the Chevrolet back to Minnesota. Epilogue. The three men made it back to Saint Paul driving the Chevrolet in 49 hours. The car used five gallons of oil for the return drive. Photo Ramsey County Historical Society.
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