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Old 10-14-2014, 09:24 PM   #1264 (permalink)
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Mercedes-Benz just finished a 2.5 year restoration of this one-off 504 K Streamliner - shot in a wind tunnel in a nod to the remarkably aerodynamic design for a car made in 1938 : Autos

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Mercedes-Benz just finished a 2.5 year restoration of this one-off 504 K Streamliner - shot in a wind tunnel in a nod to the remarkably aerodynamic design for a car made in 1938............................

The streamliner was not just a beautiful design, rather it was a highly functional reflection of the knowledge that Mercedes-Benz had gained in their research into aerodynamic flow. A standard version of the 540 K had a Cd of 0.57 resulting in a top speed of 140-145km/h - the Streamliner however slashed that figure to just 0.36 and as a result lifted the top speed to around 165-170km/h - a real feat for the era. The autobahns, which were new at the time, offered the ideal conditions for testing. The rather special 540 K was often employed on long-distance runs, for example to Berlin or Hamburg and back, sometimes at night, as Gerd Hammes, the son of Dunlop’s garage foreman, remembers.
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