This racing car transporter from 1954/1955 reached a top speed of 170 km/h.
And helped Daimler-Benz get quite a jump on its Formula 1 rivals, as it enabled the factory to continue working on the cars right until the last minute and still get them to the race track in the nick of time.

Sadly, when Mercedes-Benz withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of the 1955 season after winning two World Championship titles, there was no further use for the racing car transporter, which was eventually scrapped in 1967. In the early nineties, restorers embarked on a bid to resurrect the "blue arrow". No drawings had survived, however, and all the restorers had to go on was a technical data sheet, a few photographs and "eyewitness reports".

The project took seven years and 6,000 working hours to complete. The reconstructed transporter is now used to transport historic racing cars. And sometimes it still steals the show from the cars themselves, just like it did back in the fifties.