1929 Mercedes-Benz Model SSK 710 Murphy Speedster

The only example of this dramatic boattailed coachwork by the Walter M. Murphy Company of Pasadena on an SSK chassis, this car combines the light fleetness of Murphy styling with the SSK's dramatic proportions. One of the best-known examples of its kind, it has, appropriate to its nearly unique America-German heritage, been a proud California resident for most of its life. For many years, it was exhibited in the famous Movie World Cars of the Stars and Planes of Fame Museum in Buena Park, then was sold in 1976 to the late, much-respected collector Jack Passey, a longtime judge at the Pebble Beach Concours who considered it one of his very favorite automobiles. Mr. Passey eventually passed the SSK to the Keller Collection, for which it was completely restored to its original condition and where it has remained, resting alongside many other important Mercedes-Benz automobiles.