Hermann Goering’s Mercedes car was sold for $160,000 to an unidentified man from San Francisco. The 1944 car, used by the Nazi leader, was auctioned in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Mercedes weighs five-and-a-half tons and includes a mine-proof floor, bullet-proof wheels and windows, and one-inch armor plate on the doors.
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