Topic: SAC#243 : 1936 Maybach SW 38 Stromlinienwagen by Autenrieth

[SACO]

Yes !
Locked for you !

[bentleybob]

1936/7 Maybach SW 38 Stromlinien Limousine (Saloon) by Autenrieth?

[SACO]

Exactly right ! ( I don't know that the coachbuilder was Autenrieth )
1936 Maybach SW 38 Stromlinienwagen  by Autenrieth?
1 point for you !
And the unmodified photo :

[bentleybob]

Michael Graf Wolf Metternich describes this car in his book:'Maybach - Distanz zur Masse', as by Autenrieth, and he is the foremost authority on Maybach, so I tend to believe him. It is also very similar to the front of the Adler first mentioned, which also was by Autenrieth.

[Wendax]

It is also listed in the Autenrieth book.

[Carnut]

Still exists as a motor car producer?

Yes !

Maybach?

As a matter of fact Maybach no longer exists (again).
Production ended in June and Mercedes have just announced that it won't restart; the plug has been duly pulled.

[SACO]

Indeed !

[bentleybob]

Doomed from the start, I'd say, but then as a Rolls-Royce and Bentley enthusiast, I would, wouldn't I?

[sixtee5cuda]

Are there any more pictures of this car?

[Allemano]

As far as I remember it's featured only with one picture in the Autenrieth book, but will check it when I'm at home again.

[Allemano]

It's only a mobile phone picture, but better than nothing.

[bentleybob]

There is also a bad sideview in the Maybach book

[grobmotorix]

This one?

[Wendax]

Are there any more pictures of this car?

In a well-known forum about coachbuilding the mystery about the car's fate could be solved:

The rumor has long persisted that the Maybach came to the USA after the Second World War. But after the Autopioneer miniature appeared, a customer contacted Sabrautzky and wrote that he knew the Maybach.

The customer also attached three photos and writes that the German General Kesselring had used the Maybach SW 38 as a personal car in Rome during and after the war. The customer's grandfather, Vincenzo Platania, bought the Maybach from General Kesselring's family in 1946 and was thus the last owner of the Maybach. Shortly after the purchase, the Maybach was painted green-metallic at Pininfarina in Turin and the interior was covered with light-green leather. The car had eight seats, four in the front and four in the back. The car was given registration number ROMA 96306. The car was used by the family for a few years but was then stored in the garage of a family villa outside Rome for a long time. In 1953, Vincenzo Platania scrapped the Maybach.