“The sale presents a wonderful opportunity to raise money for an incredibly deserving charity through the sale of a motor car so closely connected to Romania’s turbulent history,” said Philip Kantor, Bonhams European motoring director, in a statement.
Ceaușescu — Romania’s last Communist leader, a position he held from 1967 until his repressive and brutal regime was overthrown in 1989 during the Romanian Revolution — was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989 along with his wife after an hour-long trial.
He had owned Mercedes-Benz since 1973. The Romanian government auctioned off his estate in 1999, including 
According to the CrossCause website, “Immediately after the revolution of 1989 and the execution of Nicolae Ceauşescu, all the failings of the communist regime were highlighted. One of these major failings concerned the children.
“Ceauşescu, in the seventies, unexpectedly and without any social preparation abolished abortion. Many families… were left to cope with the birth of unwanted children. In many cases they relied on homemade abortion methods. The consequences of these were disastrous: the birth of disabled children and a myriad of infants abandoned.
“In this context arose ‘the spital’ (orphanages) often hidden in the most remote parts of Romania (as Nicoresti) thus hiding the wounds of a regime that was no longer working…
“The Nicoresti Spital housed 150 abandoned children with various disabilities, grouped in huge rooms, often tied to beds with chains, completely abandoned in nauseating dirt, without any medical care and often subjected to various types of violence.
“Despite improvements to the social care system and a huge amount of EU funding, there are still 100,000’s of children living in institutions or in the foster care system.”
The Mercedes will be auctioned as part of the Bonhams Mercedes sale at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The car has not been used since 2007 and has 17,500 km recorded.
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