MC #465 - Mercedes-Benz 220S / Wernher von Braun / Huntsville, Alabama

[Otto Puzzell]

How can I make this car faster?

For one point: Identify the car, driver, and place.

Only a correct, complete and specific answer will earn a point; tag-on's to other guesses will not. So, be specific and complete!
 

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[Otto Puzzell]

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[nicanary]

Well, it's obviously a Mercedes-Benz 220S - is that Rudi Uhlenhaut ?

[Bill Murray]

OP is always very clever in his puzzles...........

The car in the background looks very American, a 1953 Ford I think.
The registration plate is not the American style but I don't think it is a true registration plate, perhaps some advertising.
The parking place striping is also typically something you see in the US, not in Germany for example.

Other than that, I haven't a clue.
Bill

[nicanary]

The car in the background could be a Taunus.... And there's a "fintail" next to the puzzle car. Having said that, in my haste I didn't notice the "conference accreditation" attached to the mystery man's pocket.

Is "our man" in the US on business ?

[Bill Murray]

Good eye, canary, I missed the fin.
I will stay with a 1953 Ford for the moment, look at the "frenched" headlamps. Also the size of the car is more in line with my suggestion.

Now, I am no good with Photoshop, and the photo is a bit unclear, but are those not also sealed beam headlamps on the Benz??

I too have been noodling the ID badge but have nothing yet.  The style of dress reminds me exactly of what my dad wore in the 1950's so that may be a clue also.
Bill

[Otto Puzzell]

Well, it's obviously a Mercedes-Benz 220S - is that Rudi Uhlenhaut ?

Not him

[nicanary]

We're not getting very far. It's not Max Hoffman. Is this an American person ?

[Otto Puzzell]

This man was not born in the US.

[wingroad]

Werner von Braun, the NASA Apollo rocket designer

[nicanary]

Sorry, I'm stealing again.

1957 Mercedes-Benz 220S, Werner von Braun outside the HQ of Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.

He was apparently a director of M-B in North America, and thus had numerous "company cars".

(The photo ID on his jacket was the high-tech method of the day. No retina/iris ID or fingerprint pads !)

[Otto Puzzell]

Sorry, I'm stealing again.

1957 Mercedes-Benz 220S, Werner von Braun outside the HQ of Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.

Correct

[Wendax]

For the risk of being pedantic, his name was Wernher von Braun.

[Carnut]

For the risk of being pedantic, his name was Wernher von Braun.

That's not pedantic!
This is pedantic:

He was born "Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun"!!

[Allemano]

Despite his gentleman looks he was another whitewashed nazi...

[nicanary]

Despite his gentleman looks he was another whitewashed nazi...

Some things are conveniently forgotten when there's a space-race going on. Having said that, best leave politics out of this site, I reckon.

[Allemano]

(...) Having said that, best leave politics out of this site, I reckon.

Definetely!

[Otto Puzzell]

For the risk of being pedantic, his name was Wernher von Braun.

Corrected in header.