A car that helped lay the groundwork for the company that we know today as Mercedes-Benz just sold at auction for $12,105,000. That's among the highest prices ever paid for a car built before 1930.
I'll admit that even as a car enthusiast, some parts of automotive history escape me. A big gray area for me is pre-WWII stuff; early automotive history. While I'd be hard-pressed to name some of the ...