Heavy components like the engine block and front suspension mowed down spectators. The back half burst into flames and the fire quickly spread to body panels made of lightweight (300 SLR stood for ...

The 300 SLR is a thoroughbred ... tail break loose even when slamming the throttle down in a low gear with the front wheels locked over. If one of the wheels hits a wet spot during hard ...

The 300 SLR was just as dominant in the WSC as its ... with an independent double-wishbone suspension system in the front and a complex swing-axle setup at the rear. The brakes used drums on ...

Moss' 300 SLR is one of the all-time great race cars and packed a 3.0-liter inline-eight front mid-mounted engine making 310 hp and 235 lb-ft of torque. Moss and his co-driver Denis Jenkinson left ...

That would be Stirling Moss’s drive in 1955 in the Mercedes 300 SLR ... the front axle; these measures promoted more effective weight distribution and improved aerodynamics. The SLR was also ...

The 300 SLR came with the space-frame chassis of the ... the drum brakes ended up mounted inboard both front and rear. The W196 won at the Mille Miglia in Italy, with Stirling Moss behind the ...

The body for this 300 SLR is finished in lightweight double-skinned ... There's double wishbones up front with coil springs and adjustable dampers, and a double link setup at the rear.

With neither a roof nor a windscreen to separate the driver and front passenger from ... of victories in the 1950s.The SLR Stirling Moss accompanied by the 300 SLR and members of the SLR.

Though the direct-injected inline-6 didn’t have the 300 SLR race car’s desmodromic valves ... than you think You’d think the 300 SL’s front and rear drum brakes would be ill-equipped ...

It is this version of the 300 SLR with the more obvious visual relation to the modern SLR, including the gaping vents just behind the front wheels. The 1955 car was seen as a mix of the race car ...