1957 MERCEDES BENZ 190SL EX RENATO CAROSONE

1957 MERCEDES BENZ 190SL EX RENATO CAROSONE

1000 miglia ELIGIBLE

The 1957 car was registered on 07/30/1958 with a Milan license plate in the name of Renato Carosone, the cover of one of his books “An American in Naples” is a photograph of him at the wheel of a very young age.

It changed ownership and province on 03-01-1962, receiving the current number plate.

For about twenty years it was owned by the Mercedes Novelli dealership in Genoa, one of the oldest in Italy, which carried out the restoration, conservation and constant maintenance of the mechanics.

In 1995 it was approved by ASI.

In 2013 it underwent a specialized appraisal which shows that the mileage was 50,930 km.

In the same year, the car became part of an important Mercedes collection in which it has always been maintained with the utmost care.

In 2014 the engine underwent a total overhaul with replacement of pistons and bearings, documented by a regular invoice.

Today the instrument indicates 52.040km.

Renato Carosone

Born Renato Carusone (Naples, January 3, 1920 – Rome, May 20, 2001), was an Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, conductor and composer.

Classical and jazz pianist, he was one of the major authors and interpreters of Neapolitan song and Italian pop music in the period between the second post-war period and the end of the nineties, having fused the rhythms of the tarantella with African and American melodies and created a form speck, danceable and appropriate to the times. Among his greatest successes are: Torero, Caravan petrol, Tu vuò fà l’americano, ‘O sarracino, Maruzzella and Pigliate ‘na pastiglia. Carosone was also one of two Italian singers (the other being Domenico Modugno) to have sold records in the United States without recording them in English