Auction: Red sow goes under the hammer 🎥

Rote Sau was the nickname of a racing car that AMG had built on the basis of a Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3. With its M-100 eight-cylinder engine from the Mercedes 600, the W 109 series sedan was one of the fastest four-door cars of the late sixties anyway. An inconspicuous muscle car that looked practically as innocent as a 250 SE about half as powerful.

V8 engine with 6.8 liter displacement

Hans-Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, who had started tuning Mercedes in Großaspach near Stuttgart, built a race car based on a 300 SEL 6.3 for the 24-hour race in Spa in 1971. They increased the displacement of the V8 engine to 6.8 liters and the output to around 400 hp. A five-speed manual transmission and racing clutch replaced the automatic, and wide tires on five-spoke alloy wheels transferred the engine's brutal power to the road.

Hans Heyer and Clemens Schickentanz drove the tuned S-Class predecessor to second place overall and first place in class. AMG became famous in one fell swoop and the Red Sow, as it would later be called, a legend.

Replica in the look of the original

However, not one for the museum: After regulations limited the displacement to five liters, Matra used the race car for tests. After that, the car was presumably scrapped. However, the Red Sow is available for sale as a replica. Restorers such as Arthur Bechtel or Burkhard Bischof rebuild the racing car - in the look of the time. Such replicas cost around 320,000 to 350,000 euros when they come on the market, as they will in Lucerne on June 3, 2023. The auction starts at 5 p.m.

The live on-site auction of around 50 selected classic vehicles (see gallery) is one of the highlights of Swiss Classic World that should not be missed. The auction will via livestream via Invaluable be traceable.

Source: auto motor sport
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