A 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet C The car belonged to Farouk the First, King of Egypt.
Mercedes revealed the automobile at the Paris Motor Show in October 1936. The model comes with a 5.4-liter supercharged straight-eight engine, with 115 bhp unsupercharged or 180 bhp with the Roots-type supercharger engaged. The power unit transferred resources via a four-speed gearbox.
The 540K could hit 177 km/h (110 mph) with the throttle pedal down. Autocar Magazine tested it in May 1938 and reached the highest maximum speed of any road-test car up to that date: 168.5 km/h (104.65 mph).
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