1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK, red without fenders

ITEM NUMBER: CMC207

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CMC produces some of the highest quality die cast models available. They use only authentic materials and painstaking research to bring us models that are extremely well detailed and accurate. This is tlhe 1930 Mercedes Benz SSK in red without fenders. Guaranteed to enhance your 1:18 collection, and sure to please even the most demanding collectors.
This CMC model has a special history. The red-painted model, an SSk built in 1929, was used victoriously by the privae driver Carlos Zatuszek at long-distance races in Argentina. The driver, who has been famous in South America, was born in 1987 as Karol Zatuszek in what is now Ukraine. In 1921, the trained mechanic emigrated to Argentina and became an Argentine citizen in 1931. He attempted his first car race in 1927. Two years later, his brother-in-law Julio Berndt acquired the Mercedes-Benz SSK, with which Zatuszek scored victory after victory in the following years. With the starting number 14, he competed at the autumn prize of Aregentina 1931 and won the 400-kilometer race with a new track record. After Berndt and Zatuszek sold the car in 1935, it was used by other racers in Argentina until the 1950's. Experts consider this SSK to be one of the most interesting racing cars of the Mercedes-Benz brand - reason enough to dedicate a faithful CMC miniature to this unusual model.