In the event you love Mercedes-Benz then you definitely’ll actually recognize this video.

Jonny Smith and his Late Brake Present is invited for a tour of a shocking non-public museum completely populated by basic Mercedes. The person behind this lovely obsession is Danny Lucas who, as you may think about, is nothing in need of Mercedes mad. Regardless of being referred to as Lucas, he’s clearly extra of a Bosch electrics man. This place just isn’t a public museum, it’s a utterly non-public Automotive Cave that exists in plain sight behind clean curler shutter doorways.

Danz Benz is the identify of his assortment, and Danny has channelled his adoration for traditional Mercs and enterprise of store becoming to create an area like Jonny has by no means seen exterior of Stuttgart. Open the door and we’re greeted by resin flooring, vivid spotlights and rows of curated vehicles from the Nineteen Sixties to the Nineteen Nineties. Really, the earliest is Eighties, as a result of Danny even has a functioning duplicate of the primary automotive – the patented 1886 Carl Benz  “automobile powered by a gasoline engine”. Please see the chapters for every automobile featured on this episode. This was a really particular shoot, as a result of Jonny was granted full entry to the museum for the day. Danny’s enthusiasm for the vehicles he grew up seeing and aspiring to personal bled by way of in each dialog. Every automotive within the museum was chased down and purchased for its situation or backstory. Danny didn’t go down the predictable AMG path, as an alternative he picked immaculate examples with odd specs or again tales. He has Sir Stirling’s 1990 SL500, the founding father of the Jubilee Clip’s S-class 450SEL, a Nineteen Seventies SLC rally automotive that rekindled Merc’s racing division (extra of which in a future episode), a line of early SLs and a mezzanine stuffed with ’80s Mercs. That is how many people dream of presenting our worshipped favorite machines, but Danny ensures they’re all on the button and highway authorized. He may even get any of them out inside 20 minutes.  The museum has glass cupboards with early MB artefacts and equipment. It felt like somebody had purchased the Stuttgart Mercedes museum and transport it again to Kent. See this hyperlink for a tour https://www.danzbenz.com/assortment

In the event you shouldn’t have the persistence to observe all the video listed below are the sections you may skip to, to listen to concerning the particular vehicles featured:

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

1:19 the key door

1:43 Supported by EBC Brakes

2:11 World’s first automotive – 1886 Benz

5:27 1975 450SLC rally automotive

7:00 W123 230TE Service mechanic automotive

9:07 Danny’s kiddie automotive SL

10:05 Concours SL Pagoda

12:04 R107 300SL 

13:35 Stirling Moss’ 1990 R129 500 SL

15:59 Valtteri Bottas borrowed his automotive

17:03 How the museum was constructed

18:02 100kg large Merc star hanging above!

18:48 W109 300 SEL 3.5 V8

20:38 W116 450 SEL V8

21:05 Owned by inventor of Jubilee clip!

23:55 All vehicles on the button

24:35 Nineteen Eighties upstairs space

25:21 US spec W126 turbo diesel

27:39 W126 560SEL

28:43 W126 380SEL base mannequin

29:53 C126 560SEC 

30:41 C124 230CE

31:44 Merc 500E

34:31 ‘Child Benz’ & Bruno Sacco shrine

37:23 Outro chat

What a terrific video. We hoped you loved it. What’s your favorite Mercedes-Benz of all time?