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    Salon Privé’s hotting up

    Aug 25, 2021 2 minutes

    FROM PRE-WAR motoring masterpieces to hot rods and pioneering motorcycles, the entry list for Salon Privé gets ever more tantalising as its 16th running fast approaches.

    Latest additions for the 100-plus-car event, which takes place at Blenheim Palace on 1-5 September, are a unique 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K (below right) combining two-seater Cabriolet A coachwork with a longer-wheelbase chassis, a 1929 Gangloff-bodied Mercedes-Benz 680S that

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