the interesting trivia of importers

Maxmillian Hoffman was a car dealer in Vienna, jewish, and escaped before the Nazi Germans could kill him.

By 1953 he was the US Mercedes Benz importer with so much clout that he convinced the company to follow the success of the W194 race car and send gullwing 300 SLs to America, and distributed them to 475 dealerships across the USA

I came across a new image of the Marx brothers race at Muroc

Found on https://www.facebook.com/SCTASouthernCaliforniaTimingAssociation

Full story at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/06/did-i-ever-post-about-marx-brothers.html