This unit was brought to Muros in 1917 by a family of canning businessmen, who owned it until 2005, when it was rescued by the Fundación Jorge Jove from one of the warehouses of the century-old Sel cannery. Just a few metres from the sea, rust and corrosion, the result of years of saltpetre and humidity, had deteriorated all its materials.
In 1990, this American SUV was lying inert in the open on the outskirts of Almeria in southern Spain. No one could have imagined that this rusty vehicle, painted bright red, had been witness to one of the biggest Allied offensives of the Second World War. Saved from certain death by the Fundación Jorge Jove, today, now restored, it is once again as strong as it was in 1944.
Elegant, exquisite and quiet. That was the Mercedes 300. Born in 1951, it defined the “Grand Mercedes” concept, a term for the ultimate in automotive refinement. After the Second World War, it represented the continuation of the automobile as an image of distinction. An exclusive piece of which the Fundación Jorge Jove owns a unit and which will be exhibited in the future Automotive Museum.
This Hispano Suiza is one of the few surviving units that formed part of the machinery of the first major modernisation plan for Spanish roads between 1926 and 1936. This tanker was part of an order of several hundred ordered by the Ministry of Public Works at the time to carry out the works. Today it remains in the warehouses of the Fundación Jorge Jove to become one more piece of the future Galician Automotive Museum.
Three of this Delage tipo G were built for the Paris – Marseille race in 1907. In that Grand Prix, one unit was destroyed after running off the track. In 1945, another would disappear after a German bombing raid. However, the last unit is still alive and forms part of the collection of the Fundación Jorge Jove. It represents a unique example of the ancestors of Formula 1.
