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“I found the overcrowded trains in summer irksome, and felt tied down by having to follow the direction of tracks. This led me to conceive the idea of arranging my own transport...”
- Gottlieb Daimler, diary entry while traveling in Russia, 1881
Fast forward 84 years later (1965) and two guys named Aufrecht and Melcher started preparing a racing engine for Manfred Schiek's 300SE. Two years later, the owners officially founded the company and began their humble beginnings in the "Old Mill" in Burgstall, Germany. Hans-Werner Aufrecht (A) and his partner Erhard Melcher (M) officially founded AMG in 1967; Aufrecht’s birthplace of Grossaspach (G) supplied the third letter in the company name.
In its early years, AMG concentrated on building racing cars based on the Mercedes-Benz 300 SE sedan and competing in European touring car races. The first racing success came in 1971, when a Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3, modified by AMG with a 6.9-liter engine, took a surprise class victory in the 24-hour race at Spa in Belgium, finishing in second place overall. The 1971 success proved to be the springboard for an enviable record on the track that has continued to this day.
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