CMC 1955 Mercedes Benz 300 SLR #722 Moss/Jenkinson 1/18

1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR #722 Moss/Jenkinson Mille Miglia by CMC in 1/18 scale. This car is hard to find!

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Sir Stirling Moss has frequently been referred to as "the best driver never to win the World Championship". During his racing career from 1948 to 1962, Moss won 194 of the497 races he entered including sixteen Formula One Grands Prix. Moss’s sense of sportsmanship and devotion to British cars got in the way of him winning the world championship but he was four times the runner-up. He held the lead for the most major racing wins by an English driver until 1991 when he was surpassed by Nigel Mansell who accomplished the feat with many more racing starts. In 1999, a seventy year-old Stirling Moss was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

For 1955, Moss was contracted by Alfred Neubauer to drive for the Mercedes-Benz Rennabteilung (racing team). One of the cars he drove was their 300SLR in their effort to win the World Sports Car Championship for Manufacturers. The 300SLR, a thinly-disguised version of the W196 Monoposto Grand Prix car that Moss also drove, was introduced at the Mille Miglia in May of 1955. The car was configured specifically for the race, and because the Mille Miglia was a high-speed endurance race, run over a figure-eight shaped course on public roads between Brescia and Rome and then back to Brescia, Moss chose to take along, as navigator, his friend and motorsports journalist, Denis Jenkinson. The two of them ran over the course six times in the months before the race and took extensive course notes on an 18 foot-long roll of paper that “Jenks” un-rolled during the race and transmitted the information to Moss with a set of pre-arranged hand signals.

They left Brescia at 7:22 AM (hence the car’s #722) and crossed the finish-line at 5:29’48” PM setting a record of 10 hr 7 min 48 sec that has not been bested. The team’s average speed was 159.65 km/hr (98 mph), a speed over 16 km/hr (10 mph) faster than the previous record. At times on the course, they reached speeds of over 280 km/hr (170+ mph). It’s noteworthy that Moss’s final race in the 1955 season had him co-drive with Peter Collins to race the October Targa Florio. The Moss/Collins team won the race and M-B finished 1, 2 & 4 beating Ferrari for the 1955 Manufacturer’s World Sports Car Championship by one point.

The scale is 1/18. The part number is CMC 066. This model is assembled from more than 1100 parts. Everything is open, highly detailed engine, carpeted interior, real rubber tires, authentic Mercedes Benz Color.

The car is Brand new in the box. It has certificate. Sealed, never opened! The pictures  and review is courtesy of CMC.

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