{"id":10152,"date":"2020-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/mercedes-benz-540-k-coup-hebmller-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:27:45","slug":"mercedes-benz-540-k-coup-hebmller-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/mercedes-benz-540-k-coup-hebmller-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz 540 K Coup\u00e9 Hebm\u00fcller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Converted from Cabriolet A to Coup\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Mercedes-Benz 540 K isn’t really a subject that needs much discussion among car connoisseurs and fans. This pre-war sports car is well known for its rarity and the powerful inline eight-cylinder engine with supercharging. With the supercharger switched on, 180 hp are available. Next to that, the beautiful bodywork variants, of which the factory alone already offered eleven different variations from Coup\u00e9 to Cabriolet A and Cabriolet B as well as the Roadster and Spezial-Roadster, still provide great pleasure among onlookers today. In addition, special bodies from external coachbuilders were also available. Due to the high base price and the approaching World War 2, a total of only 419 chassis with and without bodies left the production halls in Sindelfingen\/Germany. Of these, 32 were fitted with the Cabriolet A body style of the second series with two seats and redesigned, rounder front fenders compared with Series 1, including the chassis known internally as the ‘Fahrgestell mit zur\u00fcckversetztem Motor’ (chassis with set-back engine), which set the characteristic radiator grille and entire drive unit 185 millimeters further back compared with the standard vehicle. Mercedes-Benz accomodated two full-size spare wheels in the rounded rear.

One of these chassis was given the chassis number 154143 amd left production in 1937 as a Cabriolet A. On July 12, 1937 Brabender GmbH in Duisburg, a company for laboratory instruments, took over this car as the first owner. Exactly when the company sold the 540 K is not known. What is clear, however, is that around 1951, the Henkel family from D\u00fcsseldorf, founders of the chemical company of the same name, brought the car to the coachbuilder Joseph Hebm\u00fcller und S\u00f6hne in Wuppertal to have the previous convertible top replaced by a Coup\u00e9 roof. For this purpose, Hebm\u00fcller also removed the original windscreen frame and replaced it with a flatter one in a V-shape with a two-part window, of which both parts could be opened separately. Next to the new Coup\u00e9 roof, the car also received new side windows, extended sills with chrome strips and integrated lighting, as well as rectangular tail lights. Due to the dark paintwork and the overall appearance, the result was very reminiscent of the Spezial-Coup\u00e9 offered by the factory. Interestingly, a Coup\u00e9 conversion based on a Mercedes-Benz 170 S was created at the same time for a director of the Henkel Group.<\/p>\n\n\n

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