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Beneath the title is etched 'She smiles - Infused with a fortitude from Heaven

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George Best is sent flying

Mercedes-Benz Streamliner car mb-width 971 Beneath the title is etchedMercedes Benz Streamliner car, 1938. On 28th January, 1938, Rudolf Caracciola drove this car at 268. 657 mph along the Frankfurt Darmstadt Autobahn, recapturing the Land Speed Record for Class B cars (with engines smaller than 8000cc) from Mercedes' great rivals Auto Union. It remains the fastest speed ever driven by a car on a normal road. Later the same day, in attempting to regain the record for Auto Union, Bernd Rosemeyer was killed when he