Quite a few of them are very open about it and germany is generally one of the most upfront countries about their history. but i guess you could say the same about a lot of other companies. older american companies? Slaves most definitely, sometimes even active supporters of the confederacy. Every old company from the former british empire? Slaves and all the fcked up shit. The japanese? Dont even get me started. Yeah sure, we did a lot of shit wrong, but we payed for it big time and are probably some of the only ones sorry for it. We are no saints but we dont claim to be. basically every other country? Same shit, just a different time or place, so stop acting like your countries did nothing wrong, they definitely did, you just dont know about it.
@@jeffrobodine8579 Modern Mercedes is not over engineered. It's poorly engineered. They know the plastic parts will fail in 5 to 10 years, but they include them because it's cheaper.
Do you not understand that it’s been rebuilt multiple times it’s not like it’s been run continuously for 80 years either like it’s a daily driver. You don’t know what you’re talking about
@@mrt9368modern Mercedes’ have lower build quality than previous models. A simple search will tell you that. Lots of issues. But still amazing vehicles
@@respectedprophet6247 there’s a reason 90% of all new Mercedes are leased. It’s because nobody wants to own them out of warranty. Also I am aware it’s been restored and preserved, I’m also aware that’s it’s possible to keep it running unlike the new models
There was also a disappointment with this model as the tyres could not stand 5 tons at 110 miles speed . Continental tires gave only permission for 85 kilometers continuous cruising speed..
Yeah, maybe so, but a 1935 Mercedes 500K had a straight 8 cylinder engine mit kompressor, but it only produced a pathetic 160 HP! The German-American Duesenberg brothers made a 1935 straight 8 DOHC with a supercharger that produced up to 400 HP!!
LMAO can you imagine? Clarkson's banter with him about the Battle of Britain and the superiority of the RAF over the luftwaffe lol Would'be been a banger.
I bet the temptation of workers in that museum to stand on the same spot in the car Hitler stood on, click their heels and do the salute... is very hard to resist.
I read in a book that the Egyptians invented the supercharger, they used a bellows to pump more oxygen into their forges, can't argue as it is the same principle.
@@anthonyxuereb792 - Sorry, but referring to a bellows as a supercharger is as ludicrous as calling a dentist's air tube a supercharger! Reallllllly stretching the meaning and name.
@@Loulovesspeed It's only because we are conditioned to associate the term supercharger to a turbo or Roots type blower. Any charge of air taken to a higher level than normal atmospheric pressure is said to have a "super" charge. Besides, what's the difference between a spindle with a turbine wheel at both ends, two lobes intertwining and two paddles joined by leather? There is no difference as they all achieve the same result very effectively and simply. Yes the bellows are still with us and have changed civilisation with the new tools they help create. I don't know how a dentist's air tube works to comment on.
The name of Ferdinand Porsche is not "Porsh". The letter "e" at the end of a word in German is never silent. So please for gods sake call him (and the brand) PORSCHE. Thank you.
As for politicians cars go these years of Mercedes Benz are just so awesome. This and the 1960s Lincoln Continentals really commanded respect and had so much elegance and class. Perfect for world leaders.
@@peterduxbury927 Its also weird someone talking about a compressor in English. Im german myself and i its always kompressor for us, but i guess its called supercharger in english? Not sure since i don't know if what they used is comparable to modern superchargers so it still can be right to call it compressor then.
@@DarkSession6208 In English, when talking about air, this can be compressed. The Mercedes 770 would have a Supercharger, which compresses the air before entry into the Cylinders. As you would know, Turbochargers are also compressors, and they arrived later, and were more efficient. Even though the modern Mercedes cars were named Kompressor, they had Turbochargers. I often wondered why Mercedes named their modern cars as "Kompressors", and not thinking about the fact that the cars were fitted with Turbos. Greetings from Australia.
@@DarkSession6208 yes. Typically here any engine driven forced induction (twin screw or the roots style) is refered to as supercharged. As where exhaust driven are refered to as turbo.
@@DarkSession6208 - They are one and the same. The German word for supercharger is kompressor. The American name supercharger translates to the same meaning. It super - charges the mixture which means the same as compressing it. Mercedes Benz was the first auto company to use a supercharger, designed along with input from Dr. Porsche, in 1921.
German person here. A mistake, it is ,der Führerschein ', not ,das Führerschein '. ( In some cases a change of der, die , das changes the meaning of the same word, but not here. For example: Der Schild/the shield, but das Schild/the sign.) I visited this museum several times, a lot of Intressting items. When you hear the museum technican speaking, clearly swabian dialect, only watered down. According to a german arms magazine, in at least some of the Große Mercedes, armoured or not, ordered by Governement, there had been one or two hidden pockets, containing a loaded Luger pistol and a spare magazin, but i couldnt proof this in the museum, you can' t go such close to the car. Now an armoured car with convertible roof. Risky, someone could throw a handgrenade or a heavy stone into the car, or shooting from a house or otherwise from above ( see Kennedy in Dallas). True, but european assassinations, 1914 Sarajewo or 1934 Marseille ( assassination of jugoslawian king Alexander and a french minister, newsreels of this incident i saw in UA-cam) had been done by pistolshooters, firing from sidewalk level. I don' t know if in 1934 the car was armoued or not. When yes, the assassin must have shot through an open window. But armoured cars then had sometimes no bulletproof glass, but only moveable steelplates, which had to be moved in case of danger, and the driver could only see through slits. Who had in 1930s an armoured car? Not only presidents or kings, also dubious figures of US organized crime, for example Al Capone. Some of those gangster cars had been proffesionally armoured, some only partly or improvised for example by adding simply an Aluminium sheet. Remember: In 1935 .357 Magnum was introduced, rare and expensive, 7, 63 Mauser was seen as dangerous in penetration context, but pistols for strong cartidges ( 9mm Luger, .45 Acp etc.)had been large and not so practical for concealed carry and surprising use. The more concealable pistols/ revolvers in.22, .32, .38 ,.25 had no good penetration, so the armoured cars of 1930s had been protective for this era. I have read somewhere, could be wrong, that in 1941 US President had no armoured car, but i was decided, for war reason he needs one. According to the article, also first armoured car of an US President was similar to shown car , a convertible and as first substitute Al Capones confiscated car was used.
11:00 Acrually the entire engine‘s capacity is 7,7 litres in total (not per cylinder). And the power output is 200hp with the supercharger engaged (not 400hp).
A 1935 Mercedes Benz 500K had a basic 5 liter, OHV straight 8 with a supercharger and it only produced 160HP. The same year Duesenberg 6.88 liter, DOHC straight 8 with a supercharger produced up to 400 HP in the SSJ model. That engine also had 4 valves per cylinder and hemispherical cylinder heads. Big difference! The Duesenberg engine was far more advanced technically and was the most powerful auto engine in the world until 1958 when the 7.05 liter, 430 cu. in. Mercury Super Marauder engine developed 400 HP. It was the first American engine to produce 400 HP.
I wonder why Mercedes didn't copy the DOHC design of the Duesenberg model J engine. That engine was the most powerful engine in road going cars and was very robust.
@wouter4730 - You are exactly right! The 1935 Mercedes 500K Special Roadster had a common 306 cu. in. straight 8, overhead valve with a supercharger that made a paltry 160 HP. The mighty Duesenberg 420 cu. in. straight 8 with dual overhead cams and a supercharger produced as much as 400 HP, and was the most powerful and fastest production car in the world for many years. The Germans, especially back then, were not ones to copy others, but rather set the mark for others to follow! Apparently the brothers Duesenberg, German immigrants, were the only Germans to practice that philosophy!
@@dingrey OK, Here's the straight poop on the Duesenberg 420 cu. in. engine. The base engine which was carbureted, produced 265 hp. The supercharged version was 320 hp. The SSJ model of which just 2 were made, had special "Ram's Horn" intake manifolds and produced 400 hp. Duesenberg designed the engine, though it was built by Lycoming, a former aircraft engine manfuacturer.
I grew up in a small town in the southern part of New Jersey that was founded in 1855 as a German enclave. It had many German newspapers and the minutes of the city council were kept in German until the start of WW I. Sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, a car from the Nazi-era was displayed on the main street. I would have been about 10 or so then and do not recall whether it was Hitler's, Goring's, Himmler's or another official's ar. but I don't think I had the 25 cents admission fee to be able to get into the big trailer to see it. I had to be content looking at the painting on the side of the 18-wheeler. Ah, childhood memories!
In the Sinsheim museum, when I first visited, the 770K hard-top was labelled as having been used by Heinrich Himmler. When I was there I May 2024, the Himmler reference had been removed. Side by side, the hard-top and cabriolet are extremely impressive.
Maan, I'd like to ride in this car at least once. Just to feel like what's like to be the most awesome person of the 1930's and 1920's and 2020's. Thunder Hello!
I saw this car in the mid 1950's in Cambridge Massachusetts when it was traveling around the country in a trailer. It was on display in a supermarket parking lot and for 50 CENTS you could go in the trailer to see and touch it. He had a couple of these I understand and they were impressive looking for sure. My collection of W.W.2 memorabillia consists of a German soldiers Helmut in good shape and a photo album from a German officer with lots of pics of German soldiers and war scenes. It's in excellent shape with no torn pages.
i"ve just visited this exact mercedes this week end . Marvellous car ! was proud to see it It's located in the automobile Henri Malartre museum in Lyon, France . The original owner of the place was passionate about cars and the collection is crazy i'd suggest you pay a visit to the city and the museum . both are really great
1. He didnt, as a cabrio is not protected 2. Innovation and development were things he enjoyed, enjoyment of engeneering marvels perhaps 3. It is believed that he suffered from megalomania, hence his absolutely bonkers plans for berlin 4. It might hava just been a characteristic he held up for the public, as there was always the backup plan of killing themselves if things went south, impliing that he was not completely disconnected from reality and quite clever. He definitely saw the advantages of armoured cars, both for public and for safety reasons
@@jjoheld The Cabrio had a roof. It's folded up under the cover just behind the passenger compartment. It's made from magnesium plates that look like a duck's back, to shed water.
Well, it's not like we must find sanity and logic in Adolf Hitler's behavior... like on another subject the "Arian race", so called master race of tall, blond people... whereas he was short with brown hair, by his own ideology he should not have led Germany!
I wonder if JFK's convertible limo had armor of any kind. Yeah, today the Zionists would have had a sniper, but if they'd assassinated Hitler back then they probably thought things would get much worse for them.
Also in case of CCW licence/Waffenschein, führen of a pistol means, you carry a loaded , ready to shoot pistol, easy to draw for selfdefence. An unloaded pistol, carried in a locked box without ammuniton is not führen, but transportieren of a pistol . Note: A Waffenschein is in Germany a rare document, but exists. Other context: A Hundeführer is in officials german a person, who handles a dog.
@ 2:19 - "[…] in September 1923 he [Hitler] bought from him his first Mercedes-Benz, the 10/30 model." Perhaps it was a Benz, but it could not have been a Mercedes-Benz, as Daimler (the manufacturer of Mercedes) and Benz didn’t amalgamate until 1926. Otherwise, interesting video.
Very true, more interestingly the NAZI flag seems to be a near direct copy of Roman shields - Red with the swastika - Germania to be built, nearly the restoration of the Roman Empire.
The museum shows also an armoured version of an open tourer with 540k engine. Before the times forced for heavy armaments Hitler used also these light 3.2 ton version. at 5:10 the car behind the early 770 first series might be such a 540 Phaeton Tourer because of the rounded connection between the Zeiss Lights..
One of those armoured convertible 770K was brought here to norway and given to Vidkun Quisling as a gift from hitler himself, After the war the norwegian royal family used the car as parade car and traded it for a Lincoln Continental in 1966, It is now located in the US and is the most preserved 770K cabs out there
There are several of them, another one is in the Lyon Museum of Automobile in France... with bullet-holes too! Thinking about it, it's pretty good: you don´t need to cross the Atlantic to see one of these cars in person!
@@regisdumoulin That's the one the Americans found at Goering's house in Berlin. They drove around Berlin for 3 days untill Patton said they had to stop using it. They parked it in front of the Reichstag Building, and threw grenades under it. Nothing happened to it. So they shot it up with a 20mm anti aircraft gun. That's the holes you saw. It pissed off Montgomery because he wanted a pristine 770 as a war prize, for when he retired.
Years ago when I was 16,first year of a mechanic’s apprenticeship, my apprentice master was himself an apprentice in Hitlers motor poole servicing the same Mercedes and many more. The stories he told, god bless Frank Grapl long dead but not forgotten
I love this documentary. I hate all those "Hitler bad" videos. Yes we know he was bad but there are many other aspects of his life that make great stories. Like this one about his cars. I want to see more videos like this.
We agree! If you want more, you can watch this documentary about his wife, Eva Braun, and how she lived with this man and his atrocities 👉 ua-cam.com/video/ynqVSDqyO20/v-deo.html
You didn' t get the reason of smiling. The Führer (leader) owned no Führerschein ( drivers licence). Führer can mean leader, guide and driver, depending on context.
@@bayareaomg : This joke of the Führers Führerschein is an old joke in Germany. He failed the test, because he answered ,in Dachau ' when he was asked, where the Vergaser is.
Swastik looks beautiful on the car in the thumbnail. We make Swastiks over the bonnet of our cars in India when we purchase new cars or during festivals.😇😇
When Hitler's car was on display here in the states in the '70's my father went to see it. He slid underneath and looked at the chassis I.D #. When he got up he said that was General Mannerheim's car of Finland. He said, he knows because he used to drive it and care for it. He was the sort of person you didn't doubt.
@@philiptownsend4026 - Not then either!! The German/American Duesenberg Brothers in 1935 had up to 400 HP in their SSJ and would vaporize any Mercedes of the same period!
@Loulovesspeed Thanks very much. I completely agree. I personally loved this video for all the history, technical details, and the beautiful cars. I've always believed that a car is blameless, it doesn't know the era it's in, it was just somebody's (beautiful in some cases) daily transportation. The car and whatever happened in its era are two separate things. Big examples are German cars from the 20s-40s and American cars from the 50s-60s.
@@danijellucic8043 - Yes it is, and the Duesenberg Brothers, Frederick and August immigrated to America in 1885 and created their own make of ultra luxury, high performance motor vehicles that stand at the pinnacle of American made cars! In 1933, they created a model called The Twenty Grand. That was the astronomical price of the car then, about $471,000 U.S. dollars today! They designed their own engines that were built by Lycoming Aircraft Co. and produced 320 HP supercharged. The same year Mercedes Benz 500K Special Roadster supercharged was just 165 HP and cost just under $11,000 U.S. dollars. Their cars also won the 24 hrs. of Le Mans 3 times! Great machines!
@@danijellucic8043 - That is correct, Frederick and August Duesenberg, German/American immigrants who built probably the only American car that was superior to any Mercedes Benz of the same era!
Never ask:
A mans salary
A womans age
A German company what they did between 1933-1945
Quite a few of them are very open about it and germany is generally one of the most upfront countries about their history. but i guess you could say the same about a lot of other companies. older american companies? Slaves most definitely, sometimes even active supporters of the confederacy. Every old company from the former british empire? Slaves and all the fcked up shit. The japanese? Dont even get me started. Yeah sure, we did a lot of shit wrong, but we payed for it big time and are probably some of the only ones sorry for it. We are no saints but we dont claim to be. basically every other country? Same shit, just a different time or place, so stop acting like your countries did nothing wrong, they definitely did, you just dont know about it.
@@jjoheldLook into the history of Henry Ford. He openly supported Germany during the 1930's.
IBM too
And Prescott Bush..
@@jeffrobodine8579if the soldiers who fought against Germany saw what their countries have become today they would’ve supported Germany too
Its a swiss watch on wheels. That was when mercedes made its reputation. Its still drivable even today. Amazing.
An over engineered modern Mercedes is lucky to last twenty Years.
@jeffrobodine8579 The engineering has been replaced by electronic toys and fragile plastic.
@@jeffrobodine8579error codes out the bun hole.
@@jeffrobodine8579How much of it is Made n China?
@@jeffrobodine8579 Modern Mercedes is not over engineered. It's poorly engineered. They know the plastic parts will fail in 5 to 10 years, but they include them because it's cheaper.
It’s crazy how Mercedes went from building a car that’s still running 80+ years later, to cars that repeatedly break after 8 years.
Do you not understand that it’s been rebuilt multiple times it’s not like it’s been run continuously for 80 years either like it’s a daily driver. You don’t know what you’re talking about
@@respectedprophet6247 Well he is also saying that mercedes repeatedly break after 8 years, so no. he doesnt know what he is talking about xd
@@mrt9368modern Mercedes’ have lower build quality than previous models. A simple search will tell you that. Lots of issues. But still amazing vehicles
@@respectedprophet6247 there’s a reason 90% of all new Mercedes are leased. It’s because nobody wants to own them out of warranty. Also I am aware it’s been restored and preserved, I’m also aware that’s it’s possible to keep it running unlike the new models
Quality has gone down the tubes on German cars
the fact this beast gets 4 miles per gallon with a turbo i8 making 400 hp in 1939 is insane
Talk about range anxiety...
@bayareaomg - Supercharged, not turbocharged, major difference in the two!
@@Loulovesspeed 2 superchargers because of 1.1 tons extra weight for the armoured version
70 years later, Hummer H2 achieved that (400HP, roughly same consumption per tonne)
@@1940limitedhilarious
One of the most luxurious and oppulent cars ever made! The 770K must've also been one of the most powerful cars in the world at the time!
Hell cat
they were below bentley rolls royce bugatti etc
@@Lemingtona-x5g absolutely not...
@@EKTORIOUSPRIME ???
im afraid so. mercedes average people drive where as rolls royce not so average
Mercedes should make an add. Merceds-Benz, the Fuhrer's choice.
😭😭😭 ah yes nothing wrong with that at all
@@memorimusic420 yes perfect
Maybe in 10 years from now...
That would definitely sway me to buy one
❤
German engineering never disappoints
Unfortunately it does today. Modern German cars are not the same quality. Buy a W126 Mercedes while they still are affordable.
It's amazing all the things they built.
Transmission 👋
If you own a modern one it will.
There was also a disappointment with this model as the tyres could not stand 5 tons at 110 miles speed .
Continental tires gave only permission for 85 kilometers continuous cruising speed..
Wow Mercedes Kompressor was here since 1930s. Amazing.
The Mercedes 6/25 hp and 2.6 litre Mercedes 10/40 hp were the first production supercharged cars I believe. In 1923
I have one now lol. At least a modern example.
@@cbizkit36same
Yeah, maybe so, but a 1935 Mercedes 500K had a straight 8 cylinder engine mit kompressor, but it only produced a pathetic 160 HP! The German-American Duesenberg brothers made a 1935 straight 8 DOHC with a supercharger that produced up to 400 HP!!
@@Loulovesspeed only two Duesenberg had 400 hp tho. But i do agree that Duesenbergs were far far ahead of anything in its time!
I know he did some crazy stuff, but you can’t deny his wagons went unfathomably hard
He made Volkswagen with Porsche by killing workers at Wolfsburg factory to make the people car and thus the beetle was born
Everybody has their shortcomings 🖐🏻
They call him evil, horrible, and a broken man, but they don’t say A.D never had drip 💧 🥶🥶
Adolph would have been a great guest on Clarksons stars in cars...
LMAO can you imagine? Clarkson's banter with him about the Battle of Britain and the superiority of the RAF over the luftwaffe lol Would'be been a banger.
Hahaha. Truth would come out? It would damage, completely, the di$t0rt3d history we have today?
Wilhelm Maybach was at that time an engineer and developed plane engines and 16 cylinders
Yeah and still had time to discover Orgone.... My bad that was Wilhelm Reich
a self-taught engineer, no harvard or yale
@@pepevelez4742 I heard a lot of successful Harvard dropouts. Don't hear much about graduates
I bet the temptation of workers in that museum to stand on the same spot in the car Hitler stood on, click their heels and do the salute... is very hard to resist.
They’d probably kick me out of the museum for drooling over this car
So MB is obviously distancing itself from that part of history...including build quality.
Maybe in their mid and lower lines, but my 2017 S Class is really well designed and built.
@eastbaystreet1242 yes obviously they still build some good cars up untill 2017 but nothing compared to the old cars
This car was designed and built for the führer himself, I doubt the normal MB cars at the time had nearly the same build quality of this car
@@eastbaystreet1242You have a few years before all the plastics start falling apart
I wonder if the reason for reduced quality in the cars is cost based. More quality is more expensive?
I really wanted them to talk about the six wheel drive version that he was seen riding in!!! 🤔
Thats a different model, it is called the Mercedes G4
there's one of those at the lyon air museum in california
Thats a G4. But the one in Sinsheim is not his.
I like those!
it was a 6x4 but it had advanced locking diffs an amazing truck of a car though
13:25 those are some beautiful gauges
That supercharger sounds terrifying in a good way
Amazing technology, history and engineering 👏
Good video but Mercedes had been using superchargers since the 1920s. It wasn't a new thing for the 770K.
Hell cat
I read in a book that the Egyptians invented the supercharger, they used a bellows to pump more oxygen into their forges, can't argue as it is the same principle.
@@anthonyxuereb792
@@anthonyxuereb792 - Sorry, but referring to a bellows as a supercharger is as ludicrous as calling a dentist's air tube a supercharger! Reallllllly stretching the meaning and name.
@@Loulovesspeed It's only because we are conditioned to associate the term supercharger to a turbo or Roots type blower. Any charge of air taken to a higher level than normal atmospheric pressure is said to have a "super" charge. Besides, what's the difference between a spindle with a turbine wheel at both ends, two lobes intertwining and two paddles joined by leather? There is no difference as they all achieve the same result very effectively and simply. Yes the bellows are still with us and have changed civilisation with the new tools they help create. I don't know how a dentist's
air tube works to comment on.
The name of Ferdinand Porsche is not "Porsh". The letter "e" at the end of a word in German is never silent. So please for gods sake call him (and the brand) PORSCHE. Thank you.
Tell them!
In my country Bulgaria, this car is pronounced Порше, Porsche and it is so cringey when Everyone from US said Porsh or even Porsha! 😂😂😂
@@vasiovasio Porsche is correctly pronounced with 2 syllables ....Por-sche.
@@Loulovesspeed 👍😊
@@Loulovesspeed like Por-cha
@@bennyhannover9361 No, like Por-sha, not Por-cha!
All the armour, yet every time he was in it, roof was down and he was stood up saluting 😅
He's not saluting, he's hailing himself!
Did you even watch the clip? They went over this and talked about it 😐
Germany NEVER had good snipers !
Shows how popular he was I suppose.
The chosen one🎉
When Hitler war around Mercedes was worried about reliability
I'm pretty sure it doesn't have eight 7.7L cylinders (a 61.6L engine)
As for politicians cars go these years of Mercedes Benz are just so awesome. This and the 1960s Lincoln Continentals really commanded respect and had so much elegance and class. Perfect for world leaders.
The engine doesn't have 8 cylinders that are 7.7 liters each. They all together add up to 7.7 liters.
Yes, and I also noticed this error, and the Typo in the Title.
@@peterduxbury927 Its also weird someone talking about a compressor in English. Im german myself and i its always kompressor for us, but i guess its called supercharger in english? Not sure since i don't know if what they used is comparable to modern superchargers so it still can be right to call it compressor then.
@@DarkSession6208 In English, when talking about air, this can be compressed. The Mercedes 770 would have a Supercharger, which compresses the air before entry into the Cylinders. As you would know, Turbochargers are also compressors, and they arrived later, and were more efficient. Even though the modern Mercedes cars were named Kompressor, they had Turbochargers. I often wondered why Mercedes named their modern cars as "Kompressors", and not thinking about the fact that the cars were fitted with Turbos. Greetings from Australia.
@@DarkSession6208 yes. Typically here any engine driven forced induction (twin screw or the roots style) is refered to as supercharged. As where exhaust driven are refered to as turbo.
@@DarkSession6208 - They are one and the same. The German word for supercharger is kompressor. The American name supercharger translates to the same meaning. It super - charges the mixture which means the same as compressing it. Mercedes Benz was the first auto company to use a supercharger, designed along with input from Dr. Porsche, in 1921.
That compressor sound is amazing. Holy shh. What a car for that time
770K is still a beautyful Car
German person here. A mistake, it is ,der Führerschein ', not ,das Führerschein '. ( In some cases a change of der, die , das changes the meaning of the same word, but not here. For example: Der Schild/the shield, but das Schild/the sign.) I visited this museum several times, a lot of Intressting items. When you hear the museum technican speaking, clearly swabian dialect, only watered down.
According to a german arms magazine, in at least some of the Große Mercedes, armoured or not, ordered by Governement, there had been one or two hidden pockets, containing a loaded Luger pistol and a spare magazin, but i couldnt proof this in the museum, you can' t go such close to the car. Now an armoured car with convertible roof. Risky, someone could throw a handgrenade or a heavy stone into the car, or shooting from a house or otherwise from above ( see Kennedy in Dallas). True, but european assassinations, 1914 Sarajewo or 1934 Marseille ( assassination of jugoslawian king Alexander and a french minister, newsreels of this incident i saw in UA-cam) had been done by pistolshooters, firing from sidewalk level. I don' t know if in 1934 the car was armoued or not. When yes, the assassin must have shot through an open window. But armoured cars then had sometimes no bulletproof glass, but only moveable steelplates, which had to be moved in case of danger, and the driver could only see through slits. Who had in 1930s an armoured car? Not only presidents or kings, also dubious figures of US organized crime, for example Al Capone. Some of those gangster cars had been proffesionally armoured, some only partly or improvised for example by adding simply an Aluminium sheet. Remember: In 1935 .357 Magnum was introduced, rare and expensive, 7, 63 Mauser was seen as dangerous in penetration context, but pistols for strong cartidges ( 9mm Luger, .45 Acp etc.)had been large and not so practical for concealed carry and surprising use. The more concealable pistols/ revolvers in.22, .32, .38 ,.25 had no good penetration, so the armoured cars of 1930s had been protective for this era.
I have read somewhere, could be wrong, that in 1941 US President had no armoured car, but i was decided, for war reason he needs one. According to the article, also first armoured car of an US President was similar to shown car , a convertible and as first substitute Al Capones confiscated car was used.
Your right the US Treasury Department used Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac Town Sedan for Franklin D Roosevelt.
British Pakistani here, ich bin the Don.
“Dad, you stole hitler’s car”
“Hitler had it coming” John Lovitz, to his daughter, Rat Race. He stole it from the Barbie museum.
funniest movie ever
@abs0luteOne you may like its a mad mad mad mad world😅
Mercedes wasnt merged with Benz until 1926, so he couldnt have got a Mercedes-Benz in 1923
Nice research, Walter.👍
Yes indeed Benz was then part of Daimler correct?
That's a whopping 4 miles to the gallon, folks.
Thank you I am an American and only understand patriotism not metric.
Cutting edge technology for the time. 😅
My truck gets better than that ... barely 😂
2.9 MPG in UK gallons for any British 🇬🇧😂
About the same as a Cadillac V16.
Greatness recognises greatness.
Learned more from the comments then I did the video.
It will be interesting to know how they can stop a car so heavy, especially going down the Kehlstein road.
Brembo carbon ceramic engineered by Mussolini. But only until 1942 🤡
The answer is, not well at all! No disc brakes yet!
I'm sure it had fantastic brakes, too.
I saw one of these Mercedes, a convertible one, at the Lyon Museum of Automobile in France, a very impressive sight.
Those big Mercedes are brutaly beautyfull.
His car is longer than the 2024 chevy suburban!
11:00 Acrually the entire engine‘s capacity is 7,7 litres in total (not per cylinder). And the power output is 200hp with the supercharger engaged (not 400hp).
A twin-supercharged 400 hp (298 kW) model was available, able to reach a top speed of around 190 km/h (118 mph). A total of five were made.
@@jjk087 I found some sources on the web claiming 400hp. But I highly doubt a second supercharger would raise the power from 200 to 400hp.
Yeah seems unlikely, but certainly more than 200hp as the single kompressor was 230hp.
A 1935 Mercedes Benz 500K had a basic 5 liter, OHV straight 8 with a supercharger and it only produced 160HP. The same year Duesenberg 6.88 liter, DOHC straight 8 with a supercharger produced up to 400 HP in the SSJ model. That engine also had 4 valves per cylinder and hemispherical cylinder heads. Big difference! The Duesenberg engine was far more advanced technically and was the most powerful auto engine in the world until 1958 when the 7.05 liter, 430 cu. in. Mercury Super Marauder engine developed 400 HP. It was the first American engine to produce 400 HP.
@@jjk087Asi es,existe esa version doble turbo de 400cv
I wonder why Mercedes didn't copy the DOHC design of the Duesenberg model J engine. That engine was the most powerful engine in road going cars and was very robust.
@wouter4730 - You are exactly right! The 1935 Mercedes 500K Special Roadster had a common 306 cu. in. straight 8, overhead valve with a supercharger that made a paltry 160 HP. The mighty Duesenberg 420 cu. in. straight 8 with dual overhead cams and a supercharger produced as much as 400 HP, and was the most powerful and fastest production car in the world for many years. The Germans, especially back then, were not ones to copy others, but rather set the mark for others to follow! Apparently the brothers Duesenberg, German immigrants, were the only Germans to practice that philosophy!
The Duesenbergs were German, too.
@@Loulovesspeed more like 320 hp from what jay leno says?
@@dingrey OK, Here's the straight poop on the Duesenberg 420 cu. in. engine. The base engine which was carbureted, produced 265 hp. The supercharged version was 320 hp. The SSJ model of which just 2 were made, had special "Ram's Horn" intake manifolds and produced 400 hp. Duesenberg designed the engine, though it was built by Lycoming, a former aircraft engine manfuacturer.
I grew up in a small town in the southern part of New Jersey that was founded in 1855 as a German enclave. It had many German newspapers and the minutes of the city council were kept in German until the start of WW I. Sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, a car from the Nazi-era was displayed on the main street. I would have been about 10 or so then and do not recall whether it was Hitler's, Goring's, Himmler's or another official's ar. but I don't think I had the 25 cents admission fee to be able to get into the big trailer to see it. I had to be content looking at the painting on the side of the 18-wheeler. Ah, childhood memories!
Mercedes should just race this in f1 at this point.
That comment got a robust belly laugh! At least with this car, George Russell could just push Alonso off the road the next time and keep going. :-)
Lmao imagine this next to a modern f1 car 🤣
So Renault apparently invented both common variants of force induction.(compressor and turbo charging)
Probably the most reliable mercedes in the world xd
Honestly I can see why he loved that roofless car, it’s elegant, stylish, and for the time, modern
Beautiful car❤
So for vehicle dimensions and engine capacity you use metric but fore weight you stick with the out-dated tonnage?
Oh how Adolf would love the fuhrerbunker-inspired G-Wagen...
In the Sinsheim museum, when I first visited, the 770K hard-top was labelled as having been used by Heinrich Himmler. When I was there I May 2024, the Himmler reference had been removed. Side by side, the hard-top and cabriolet are extremely impressive.
Maan, I'd like to ride in this car at least once. Just to feel like what's like to be the most awesome person of the 1930's and 1920's and 2020's. Thunder Hello!
I saw this car in the mid 1950's in Cambridge Massachusetts when it was traveling around the country in a trailer. It was on display in a supermarket parking lot and for 50 CENTS you could go in the trailer to see and touch it. He had a couple of these I understand and they were impressive looking for sure. My collection of W.W.2 memorabillia consists of a German soldiers Helmut in good shape and a photo album from a German officer with lots of pics of German soldiers and war scenes. It's in excellent shape with no torn pages.
The first Beetles rolled off production lines in 1938. ! DORKY Video !
1937
i"ve just visited this exact mercedes this week end . Marvellous car ! was proud to see it
It's located in the automobile Henri Malartre museum in Lyon, France . The original owner of the place was passionate about cars and the collection is crazy
i'd suggest you pay a visit to the city and the museum . both are really great
Movie pitch: Time travelling vin desiel movie called the fast and the fuherious ?
😭😭🤣 bruh
1. hitler traveled only in armored cars
2. hitler considered himself lucky and felt protected by a star
so why travel in armored cars?
An open top armored car is an oxymoron.
1. He didnt, as a cabrio is not protected
2. Innovation and development were things he enjoyed, enjoyment of engeneering marvels perhaps
3. It is believed that he suffered from megalomania, hence his absolutely bonkers plans for berlin
4. It might hava just been a characteristic he held up for the public, as there was always the backup plan of killing themselves if things went south, impliing that he was not completely disconnected from reality and quite clever. He definitely saw the advantages of armoured cars, both for public and for safety reasons
@@jjoheld
The Cabrio had a roof. It's folded up under the cover just behind the passenger compartment. It's made from magnesium plates that look like a duck's back, to shed water.
Well, it's not like we must find sanity and logic in Adolf Hitler's behavior... like on another subject the "Arian race", so called master race of tall, blond people... whereas he was short with brown hair, by his own ideology he should not have led Germany!
I wonder if JFK's convertible limo had armor of any kind. Yeah, today the Zionists would have had a sniper, but if they'd assassinated Hitler back then they probably thought things would get much worse for them.
That man had Style
Style and a flair that no leftist who hate him will ever have
14:35 That's incorrect, "fuhren" also has different meaning that has nothing to do with leadership witch is the case for a drivers licence.
Also in case of CCW licence/Waffenschein, führen of a pistol means, you carry a loaded , ready to shoot pistol, easy to draw for selfdefence. An unloaded pistol, carried in a locked box without ammuniton is not führen, but transportieren of a pistol . Note: A Waffenschein is in Germany a rare document, but exists. Other context: A Hundeführer is in officials german a person, who handles a dog.
Jesus Christ you dont have any humor
@ 2:19 - "[…] in September 1923 he [Hitler] bought from him his first Mercedes-Benz, the 10/30 model."
Perhaps it was a Benz, but it could not have been a Mercedes-Benz, as Daimler (the manufacturer of Mercedes) and Benz didn’t amalgamate until 1926.
Otherwise, interesting video.
Beautiful car. Master engineering
Thats it. The most villainesque, straight up evil car ever. Fits it’s owner pretty well, sadly…
A.H plot armor was thick he survived 26 attempts on his life
Absolutely mind blowing video! Many thanks.
bro got tinted headlights? thats crazyyyy
10:00 they used the infamous 2 soundtrack. it's named "Cole MacGrath" really surprised they used this here lmao.
for everyone complaining about the swastica flags, this is actually originally was an ancient good luck symbol in many eastern religions.
Very true, more interestingly the NAZI flag seems to be a near direct copy of Roman shields - Red with the swastika - Germania to be built, nearly the restoration of the Roman Empire.
Is the compressor they talked about a supercharger?
If benz brought these classics back for remakes, it would sell so well
imagine a car like that spoiled by having a catalyst, a 1.0L 3 cylinder engine and airbags lol
The museum shows also an armoured version of an open tourer with 540k engine.
Before the times forced for heavy armaments Hitler used also these light 3.2 ton version. at 5:10 the car behind the early 770 first series might be such a 540 Phaeton Tourer because of the rounded connection between the Zeiss Lights..
Nobody notices the typo in the title?
That's the Japanese word for Mercedes - Mer Credes. LOL
They must've fixed it. However, the title reads "The Hitler's Car". Does this include all his family?
Remarkable documentary!
Something about politicians riding armored cars where the entire upper body is exposed
First US Presidents armoured car of 1941 was similar, and remember Kennedys Car in Dallas.
There is a 770 in a chicken barn in Turkey, saw it as a kid. Complete with the fender flags & license plates
Truly a grand car, the best in the world at the time..
Nah Dusenberg better
nah 2nd to Bugatti
One of those armoured convertible 770K was brought here to norway and given to Vidkun Quisling as a gift from hitler himself, After the war the norwegian royal family used the car as parade car and traded it for a Lincoln Continental in 1966, It is now located in the US and is the most preserved 770K cabs out there
Would love to own anyone of those beautiful cars today! Wonder if any of the other 19 still exist. Wasn't he the first to have autobahns in Germany?
Always found it hilarious how his Mercedes ended up in the War Museum in Ottawa, Canada. Bullet holes and everything...
There are several of them, another one is in the Lyon Museum of Automobile in France... with bullet-holes too! Thinking about it, it's pretty good: you don´t need to cross the Atlantic to see one of these cars in person!
@@regisdumoulin
That's the one the Americans found at Goering's house in Berlin. They drove around Berlin for 3 days untill Patton said they had to stop using it. They parked it in front of the Reichstag Building, and threw grenades under it.
Nothing happened to it. So they shot it up with a 20mm anti aircraft gun. That's the holes you saw.
It pissed off Montgomery because he wanted a pristine 770 as a war prize, for when he retired.
@@bennyboogenheimer4553 A little sad. It wasn't the cars fault!
at 3:16 wich type is this one?
540k roadster
I like how they try and make the car evil as well. Like it also had a personal solution to the JQ. Hilarious.
You have a point lol.
Just like democrats make SUV's evil....except when They drive them
@@tehbone8604 - You have a point alright.....a very dull one!
1:03 the DNSAP was financed by its German supporters. The people not the industrial class.
God he had fire taste
What a documentary I just loved it ❤
Awesome cars
What Mercedes did he drive? The picture of him leaving Landsburg prison in the mid 20s showed him with his car but I don't recognize it.
Didn’t Cruella De Vil have one of these? 😆
Similar, but not exactly. It had RS in the hubcaps. I think it was more of a take on Rolls Royce.
Years ago when I was 16,first year of a mechanic’s apprenticeship, my apprentice master was himself an apprentice in Hitlers motor poole servicing the same Mercedes and many more. The stories he told, god bless Frank Grapl long dead but not forgotten
I love this documentary. I hate all those "Hitler bad" videos. Yes we know he was bad but there are many other aspects of his life that make great stories. Like this one about his cars. I want to see more videos like this.
We agree! If you want more, you can watch this documentary about his wife, Eva Braun, and how she lived with this man and his atrocities 👉 ua-cam.com/video/ynqVSDqyO20/v-deo.html
this documentary is very bad: lots of errors, nonsense, untruths.
So what are the mistakes, can you please tell ??
@@NIGGAdatCooksfirst of all he only ever owned benzes all of his life. He never owned another brand. Also cars were more expensive than 100k today.
@@NIGGAdatCooksalso mercedes-benz wasn’t made until 1926. In that time it would be a “BENZ” not a “MERCEDES-BENZ”
The design for the Beetle was stolen from another car designer Béla Barényi in 1925
One example is the header. "Mercredes" 😏
Practically 4 car brands were involved for the 770K Benz
Opel (who financed the buyer)
Mercedes Benz
VW (F. Porsche - the engine)
Renault (kompressor)
german guy at the end looking a litttle to happy to call hitler the furor
You didn' t get the reason of smiling. The Führer (leader) owned no Führerschein ( drivers licence). Führer can mean leader, guide and driver, depending on context.
Found ze German @@brittakriep2938
@@bayareaomg : This joke of the Führers Führerschein is an old joke in Germany. He failed the test, because he answered ,in Dachau ' when he was asked, where the Vergaser is.
The air compressor has no lag when needed to boost the car.
Swastik looks beautiful on the car in the thumbnail. We make Swastiks over the bonnet of our cars in India when we purchase new cars or during festivals.😇😇
Nice!
It's a sacred symbol here in India. I was shocked when i got to know what it symbolised in germany !!
When Hitler's car was on display here in the states in the '70's my father went to see it. He slid underneath and looked at the chassis I.D #. When he got up he said that was General Mannerheim's car of Finland. He said, he knows because he used to drive it and care for it. He was the sort of person you didn't doubt.
Mercedes-Benz, The best or nothing
Not these days.
@@philiptownsend4026 - Not then either!! The German/American Duesenberg Brothers in 1935 had up to 400 HP in their SSJ and would vaporize any Mercedes of the same period!
very interesting video, thanks...
@Loulovesspeed Thanks very much. I completely agree. I personally loved this video for all the history, technical details, and the beautiful cars.
I've always believed that a car is blameless, it doesn't know the era it's in, it was just somebody's (beautiful in some cases) daily transportation.
The car and whatever happened in its era are two separate things.
Big examples are German cars from the 20s-40s and American cars from the 50s-60s.
france: 32hp
germany: 400hp 😂😂
What a thing of beauty. Made before Mercedes was ruined by the expectations of stupid electronics and "technology".
Is this a video about the car or just another “Hilter bad” video? Also, your “facts” about the car are grossly incorrect.
i might add that it isnt das Führerschein but der Führerschein 🤓 the irony is pretty funny though
As in? This dude from sinsheim knows his stuff, i am guessing the info came from him or the museum.
@@jjoheld the weights for one thing.
We're you looking for a "Hitler good" video? Hope not because he was a very bad person indeed.
Sounds like most every other american version of history/
INCORRECT .
Germany 1933-1945 and Mercedes Benz - The Best or Nothing
@SeamHead33 - I guess Germany and Mercedes Benz forgot to tell the Duesenberg Brothers that! LOL
@@LoulovesspeedDüsenberg, ein waschechter DEUTSCHER Name😉
@@danijellucic8043 - Yes it is, and the Duesenberg Brothers, Frederick and August immigrated to America in 1885 and created their own make of ultra luxury, high performance motor vehicles that stand at the pinnacle of American made cars! In 1933, they created a model called The Twenty Grand. That was the astronomical price of the car then, about $471,000 U.S. dollars today! They designed their own engines that were built by Lycoming Aircraft Co. and produced 320 HP supercharged. The same year Mercedes Benz 500K Special Roadster supercharged was just 165 HP and cost just under $11,000 U.S. dollars. Their cars also won the 24 hrs. of Le Mans 3 times! Great machines!
@@danijellucic8043 - That is correct, Frederick and August Duesenberg, German/American immigrants who built probably the only American car that was superior to any Mercedes Benz of the same era!
"From Berlin to Warsaw with one tank"
(Never gets old)
And the slave holding the laurel wreath would also whisper a warning into the Emperor's ear: "All glory is fleeting".