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Jim B. · #3 08-06-2012, 02:40 AM

WOW Uber-cool badges!! Looks like one is from the ADAC (West German Auto Club) from the 1955 rally at the Nurburgring! That one is special to us Mercedes folks, because 1955 was the year when Mercedes Benz won every important race in Europe ---andr it was ALSO the same year the Mercedes Benz retired from racing when it hit the top of its game!

The last one appears to be from the first era ande depicts what probably may be from one of the first or the first the first post war car rally from Bavaria, cross border into Switzerland (the snowman's sign is a combination of the West German adler (Eagle) and the Swiss flag -and the "Zoll/Douane" sign is the sign for "Customs" at a German/Swiss border crossing.

Last month and the month before I made several entries into and out of Switzerland, in my rented Audi A6 (seen at Kientzheim in the France wine country in Alsace)

though I came in through Austria, Lichtenstein and France but not through Germany.

Here was one... (Switzerland/Lichtenstein)

Those border crossings were totally relaxed. I was just waved through. Coming into Lichtenstein it was pretty funny, because the borderguard shot me a dirty look for distracting me, he was too busy flirting with a beautiful woman to be bothered doing his job. (Laughs)

Most times at night or after dark the border crossings in Switzerland were closed and unmanned.

Once we had to actually get out (on a rural road) and MANUALLY lift the striped pole in the air!

(Like the old woman did in the James Bond 1964 movie "Goldfinger" whre he was driving his DB5 near the "Auric Enterprises" building chased by North Koreans in three old blacK Mercedes Pontons!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5FhlzDYl-M

(This was going from Switzerland into France, in our case, at about 3.30 am in the morning - when WE "crashed" the border. Not dramatic at ALL!))