Scalextric C2783A - Mercedes SLR "722"  and  300 SLR Twin Pack
Mercedes Benz SLR: Daimier-Benz signed up Stirling Moss for the 1955 racing series. On May 2nd, Stirling Moss won the Mille Miglia in the record time of ten hours, seven minutes and 48 seconds at the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, together with navigator Denis Jenkinson. Similar to his team mates, Moss and his navigator, motor race journalist Denis Jenkinson, ran a total of six reconnaissance laps beforehand, enabling "Jenks" to make course notes on a scroll of paper 15 feet long that he used to give directions to Moss during the race by a coded system of hand signals. Moss and Jenkinson were competing against drivers with a large amount of local knowledge of the route, so the reconnaissance laps were considered and equalizer, rather than an advantage. Moss and Jenkinson arrived in Brescia in their Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR with the now famous No.722 car. Mercedes SLR McLaren 722: 50 years later, in 2005, Mercedes teamed up with McLaren to produce a new 722. The carbon fiber grand tourismo body design and the classical styling elements from the legendary SLR racing car of 1955 were blended to bring us the fantastic Mercedes SLR McLaren 722. Its high performance 5.5 liter V8 supercharged engine can accelerate the car to 62 mph in 3.8 seconds, reach 180 mph in just 28.8 seconds and go to a top speed of 207 mph. Taking much of its aerodynamic design and cutting edge technology from Formula One, the SLR is one of the fastest road going sport cars.