Getty ImagesĪfter Wheatcroft left school at 16, he went to work for an engineering firm, and then for his father’s construction company. Wheatcroft asked his father to buy him Hitler’s G4 when he was just six-years-old, and cried when his father said no. Hitler rides in a Mercedes convertible in 1935.
He invested the proceeds in four more vehicles, then a tank. When Wheatcroft was 15, he spent birthday money from his grandmother on three WWII Jeeps recovered from the Shetlands, which he restored himself and sold for a tidy profit. Tom Wheatcroft refused to buy it and his son cried all the way home. The next year, at a car auction in Monte Carlo, he asked his multimillionaire father for a Mercedes: the G4 that Hitler rode into the Sudetenland in 1938. When he was 5 years old, Kevin Wheatcroft received an unusual birthday present from his parents: a bullet-pocked SS stormtrooper’s helmet, lightning bolts on the ear-flaps.
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