This 1923 Mercedes Type 122, Raced at the Indy 500, Is up for Grabs

In 1923, the supercharged Mercedes-Benz Type 22 race car was the equivalent of Lewis Hamilton‘s Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 car today. So confident was Mercedes—or Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, as the company was known then—of the car’s towering power that it built four of them to challenge that year’s Indianapolis 500.

Piloted by the automaker’s chief engineer and lead driver, Max Sailer, and his young nephew Karl, the No. 15 car finished eighth overall in…