Why Executors Always Should Look in the Barn

After the death of Baroness Gisela von Krieger in 1989, lawyers settling her estate found this remarkable asset in the family's Greenwich, CT barn.

At Gooding's Pebble Beach auction, the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Special Roadster sold for $11,770,000. You can read all about the car – only 30 were built and perhaps a dozen survive – and the Baroness here.