Approaching Retro Classics meets baroque, the big Classic Car Competition in the baroque garden of Ludwigsburg castle (July 10-13, 2010), the first participants were announced : Only the vehicles which have not taken part up to now in the Concours d’Elegance can be part of this competition.

An already admitted automobile rarity is the snow-white Riley RMB 2.5 litres coupé with body of the Swiss Carrossiers Köng. Köng designed the body first for a Bentley chassis, however, he built it later on the chassis of a Riley RMB 2.5 litres of saloon. In 1949 Walter Köng showed the vehicle on the Genevan Automobilsalon, but as he found no buyer because of the high price, he used the car himself from then on. Chassis and engine of the sporty coupé are original, also the inside roof applications of raw silk. Bumpers, running boards and door handles were made in mahogany. Even the originally built-in radio “His Master’s Voice” is still in the vehicle.

Another special classic car belonged Samuel Lionel “Roxy” Rothafel (founder the radio city Music sound and the legendary Roxy theatre in New York). For Big boss Roxy only a really exciting vehicle was good enough: The Mercedes-Benz 710 SS with 7.1 litre cubic capacities on 200 HP. Rothafel asked the Milan car body manufacturer Castagna to provide the chassis with a twoseater construction. In 1929 the vehicle came by ship to New York. Rothafel owned it up to his death in 1936.

From the car & technology museum Sinsheim the Mercedes-Benz 1929 with Erdmann & Rossi car body comes to Ludwigsburg. The efficient sports-car with 6 cylinder engine, 6740 cubic capacity and 120/180 HP was introduced in 1928 on International Motor Show in Berlin at the Erdmann & Rossi booth. After the show the car to an German/American living in New York.

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