1/18 Mercedes-Benz W25 1934 'The First Silver Arrow' CMC M-033 -pre-owned- FH314
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The model comes from an estate. It is in unplayed, top condition. However, the original packaging shows signs of storage. Please look at all pictures to see what you are getting.
The W 25 is the first Mercedes-Benz racing car for the new Grand Prix formula valid from 1934. It stipulates a maximum weight of 750 kilograms for the vehicle (without operating fluids and tires) – this is how the organizers want to limit the performance of the racing cars and thus the speeds, which had been steadily increasing in the preceding years.
The Mercedes-Benz designers opted for a classic vehicle architecture: the front-mounted engine transmits its power to the rear wheels via a gearbox located on the rear axle. The inline eight-cylinder engine initially has a displacement of 3.4 liters and is supercharged. This technology had proven itself excellently in the "White Elephants" of the 1920s.
It has become a legend how the cars, which should actually have been painted in the German racing color white, got their color: The white-painted W 25 was one kilogram too heavy when weighed the day before its first race at the International Eifel Race on the Nürburgring. So the mechanics sanded off the paint, revealing the silvery hue of its light alloy body. This legend can neither be proven nor disproven. The fact is that in the Grand Prix races of this era, both Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union dueled in cars that were silver.
Manfred von Brauchitsch won the Eifel Race in the brand new W 25, laying the foundation for the unprecedented success story of the Silver Arrows. The car was used from 1934 to 1936 and continuously developed. In the eight Grand Prix races of the first racing season, Mercedes drivers in the W 25 took four first and three second places. In 1935, Rudolf Caracciola won the European Championship title, and in 1936, the Grand Prix car still managed victories in Tunis and Monaco.
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The model comes from an estate. It is in unplayed, top condition. However, the original packaging shows signs of storage. Please look at all pictures to see what you are getting.
The W 25 is the first Mercedes-Benz racing car for the new Grand Prix formula valid from 1934. It stipulates a maximum weight of 750 kilograms for the vehicle (without operating fluids and tires) – this is how the organizers want to limit the performance of the racing cars and thus the speeds, which had been steadily increasing in the preceding years.
The Mercedes-Benz designers opted for a classic vehicle architecture: the front-mounted engine transmits its power to the rear wheels via a gearbox located on the rear axle. The inline eight-cylinder engine initially has a displacement of 3.4 liters and is supercharged. This technology had proven itself excellently in the "White Elephants" of the 1920s.
It has become a legend how the cars, which should actually have been painted in the German racing color white, got their color: The white-painted W 25 was one kilogram too heavy when weighed the day before its first race at the International Eifel Race on the Nürburgring. So the mechanics sanded off the paint, revealing the silvery hue of its light alloy body. This legend can neither be proven nor disproven. The fact is that in the Grand Prix races of this era, both Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union dueled in cars that were silver.
Manfred von Brauchitsch won the Eifel Race in the brand new W 25, laying the foundation for the unprecedented success story of the Silver Arrows. The car was used from 1934 to 1936 and continuously developed. In the eight Grand Prix races of the first racing season, Mercedes drivers in the W 25 took four first and three second places. In 1935, Rudolf Caracciola won the European Championship title, and in 1936, the Grand Prix car still managed victories in Tunis and Monaco.
