Hope they drove the wheels off it and burned it in a square in Munich !!!
vicariousss
Definitely a sweet car, aside from being built for a horrible Nazi.
James29UK
An armoured convertible? Seems like bit of a waste of time.
Also it quite amazing that in 1941, the Germans thought that the war was going so well that they could effectively waste production on something so frivolous. Its got a very hand built look to it and so would have needed lots of skilled man hours to build.
101st Airborne. Wonder if these guys knew the dudes in Company E.
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liquoranwhores
I don’t see any visual indications it’s actually armored. That door looks super thin to have any blastic resistance. Do you have a source? I’m a bit skeptical. The auction link makes no mention of any armor.
InnerPartisan
Correct me if I’m wrong, but an armor-reinforced CONVERTIBLE sounds like it has one major, glaring design flaw.
Ah, superior Nazi engineering, eh?
SwedishThunder
Funfact about this car: You might think because of it’s huge IL8 engine that’s it’s uber fast, but because of all the armor built into it, it’s heavy AF, and as a result slow AF.
Saw one at a Museum in Austria a couple of years ago, and the curator demonstrated in the back lot, was legit.
Standby4Rant
The war was hell, but the *very end of the war*, when the fighting was done and soldiers were just waiting for orders to be sent home, seems like it was pretty awesome. Just looting Nazi riches, drinking priceless wine from the bottle, making out with strangers… It was the only part of the war my Grandpa would talk about, and he’d always do it with a smile.
Explosivefox109
This looks like a car a ‘guy who ran an airforce in the first half of the century’ would own.
WackyBeachJustice
It’s jarring to look at people from that era, how much smaller they are than the typical American these days.
/offtopic
Ouchouchwronghole87
Alll I see is millions of today dollars sitting there.
fritolaids
Bulletproof convertible?
jamieluke97
Damn son they don’t make them like that even with the technology we have now. Look at them curves dayum son ?
andrechan
Next thing you know, that dude will be running an airport with a wife with three kids. He’ll live in a neighborhood with a coked up DJ and a creepo fat guy.
otterdroppings
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/goering-s-car-to-be-auctioned-on-ebay-1.5250994
kekefan72
Hope they drove the wheels off it and burned it in a square in Munich !!!
vicariousss
Definitely a sweet car, aside from being built for a horrible Nazi.
James29UK
An armoured convertible? Seems like bit of a waste of time.
Also it quite amazing that in 1941, the Germans thought that the war was going so well that they could effectively waste production on something so frivolous. Its got a very hand built look to it and so would have needed lots of skilled man hours to build.
Landwaster
**[Red Skull ](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/?ref_=tt_ch):** *[hands the key to his car to Zola]* Not a scratch, Doctor. Not a scratch.
Tuffy075
Wtf is the point of an armoured convertible?
oSand
Not a lot of luggage space for a Göring car
supraspinatus
101st Airborne. Wonder if these guys knew the dudes in Company E.
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liquoranwhores
I don’t see any visual indications it’s actually armored. That door looks super thin to have any blastic resistance. Do you have a source? I’m a bit skeptical. The auction link makes no mention of any armor.
InnerPartisan
Correct me if I’m wrong, but an armor-reinforced CONVERTIBLE sounds like it has one major, glaring design flaw.
Ah, superior Nazi engineering, eh?
SwedishThunder
Funfact about this car: You might think because of it’s huge IL8 engine that’s it’s uber fast, but because of all the armor built into it, it’s heavy AF, and as a result slow AF.
Saw one at a Museum in Austria a couple of years ago, and the curator demonstrated in the back lot, was legit.
Standby4Rant
The war was hell, but the *very end of the war*, when the fighting was done and soldiers were just waiting for orders to be sent home, seems like it was pretty awesome. Just looting Nazi riches, drinking priceless wine from the bottle, making out with strangers… It was the only part of the war my Grandpa would talk about, and he’d always do it with a smile.
Explosivefox109
This looks like a car a ‘guy who ran an airforce in the first half of the century’ would own.
WackyBeachJustice
It’s jarring to look at people from that era, how much smaller they are than the typical American these days.
/offtopic
Ouchouchwronghole87
Alll I see is millions of today dollars sitting there.
fritolaids
Bulletproof convertible?
jamieluke97
Damn son they don’t make them like that even with the technology we have now. Look at them curves dayum son ?
andrechan
Next thing you know, that dude will be running an airport with a wife with three kids. He’ll live in a neighborhood with a coked up DJ and a creepo fat guy.
phil8248
Here is a great article about this car, a 1937 model by the way, and its history. https://www.drive2.com/b/969620/
sfitzy79
what a beautiful car, unfortunately it was owned by a fucking raving lunatic.
nikkopolis
Gotta be real, the Nazis had some dope-ass vehicles.