ince last year, Mercedes-Benz has been able to lay claim to the most valuable car in the world after the sale of its 1955 Uhlenhaut SLR for $143million. Prior to that, the highest price paid for a Benz was a smidge under 30 mill’ for a 1954 W196 sold by Bonhams in 2013. A number of pre-war 500 models are worth a couple of million, as well as any old Merc with a screaming compressor strapped to its engine. And each of
