CMC225 - MERCEDES-BENZ SSK BLACK PRINCE
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18/06/2021 13:41:46
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A masterpiece of architecture model: M-225 CMC Mercedes SSK Trossi "The Black Prince", 1934.
In addition to being a one-off vehicle with a renowned past, the Trossi Roadster has a very special meaning for CMC.
It goes back to the onset of the CMC company in 1995, when Shuxiao Jia and Herbert Nickerl, the two company co-founders, introduced the first CMC-made model car by replicating none other than the Trossi Roadster in 1:24 scale. Immediately after its release, the CMC miniature was voted "Model of the Year" by a professional magazine.
While the vehicle is considered to be one of the most valuable Mercedes-Benz classics in the world, the CMC replica was held to do a fascinating justice to the car.
Technical data of the CMC-modelcar:
- Model: Precision model, hand-assembled
- Manufacturer: CMC GmbH, Classic Model Cars, Germany
- Scale: 1:18
- Item-No.: M-225
- Parts: more than 1,000
Model details:
- Hand-assembled metal precision model from more than 1,000 parts
- Brilliant, high-gloss hand painting
- Steerable front wheels
- Fine replica of the 6-cylinder in-line engine with compressor
- Hinged two-wing engine hood. Each wing of the hood is individually secured with a real leather strap
- Elaborately designed dashboard with hand-inserted round instruments
- Cockpit framing and seats covered with real leather
- Amazingly realistic and perfectly crafted wheels with stainless-steel spokes and nipples mounted on an alloy rim
- Spare wheel under the hinged trunk lid
- Side exhaust manifolds made of metal pipes
- detailed representation of the vehicle floor including the exhaust system
- Roman car license plate from 1932 in an original reproduction
Description of the original vehicle: Count Carlo Felice Trossi came from the Gaglianico noble family in Biella of northern Italy and was born in 1908. As a motor sportsman and racing driver, he was elected Vice President of Scuderia Ferrari 1931. Gifted at the driving wheel, he finished second in the 1932 Mille Miglia.
SSK Chassis 36038 was initially delivered to Japan devoid of a body in 1930, and from there – still without a body – it was shipped to Rome, where it got a buyer and a coach body. Next to signor Antonio Maino, Count Trossi became the second owner of the car in June 1933. He commissioned Willi White, an English coach builder with the implementation of a new body design that he had sketched on a piece of paper. It was an extremely aerodynamic design and surprisingly in accord with the contemporary trend.
The spectacular and unique configuration of the car, together with its rich, glistening black finish, gives the vehicle a virtually magical appeal. Prior to the start of commission work, however, Trossi was said to have sold the car to someone but bought it back before long. The Black Prince stayed with Trossi since then until his death in 1949.
The Argentine Alfredo Polledo bought the car afterwards, took it to South America, and sold it two years later to Charly Stich, an American in whose Manhattan workshop the car was extensively overhauled for two years. During the rest of the 1950s the car changed hands again. It went to Carter Schaub, an entrepreneur in the oil business, who described the new acquisition as his "biggest car with the smallest trunk". After further sales that started initially in 1962, the car wound up in southern France and later in England, where Charles Howard and Anthony Bamford restored it from the ground up. In 1983 the vehicle crossed the Atlantic once more to join the collection by Tom Perkin, an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley.
In the same year, the Black Prince went on a tour of the east coast of the USA, only to become a part of the extensive and exclusive collection by Ralph
Lauren, the successful fashion mogul in the end. Paul Russel of Essex, MA restored the car again at the request of the new owner, who is known to be a perfectionist. It seems natural that the Black Prince won the award "Best of Show" at the 1993 Concours d’Elegance in Pebble Beach.
Technical data of the original vehicle:
- 6-cylinder in-line-engine with camshaft placed on top
- Compressor
- Maximum output: 275 hp at 3300 rpm
- Displacement: 7,065 ccm
- Topspeed: more than 200 km/h
- Wheel base: 2,950 mm
- Track front: 1,420 mm
- Track rear: 1,420 mm
- Total length: 4,780 mm