Highlights
- Desirable later galvanised car
- Smart factory ‘triple black’ colour scheme with hard top
- Recent service, water pump, brakes, shocks and tyres
- Tidy and usable car with good factory specification
- Long MOT to July 2025 with no advisories
The Appeal
With its ‘triple black’ colour scheme - roof, leather and paintwork - this smart 300SL certainly looks handsome. It is one of the later galvanised cars that are preferred by enthusiasts who enjoy really using their R107s.
It presents in good condition inside and out, at a level suitable for daily driving or perhaps a long road trip or two. It comes to market after a £2,500 refresh that covered servicing and replacement shock absorbers, front discs and pads, water pump, tyres and ball joints.
With the reassurance of a good history file and long, advisory-free MOT to July 2025, this is a very tidy example of one of classic motoring’s best-loved convertibles.
The History and Paperwork
- First registered 25th August 1988
- Factory UK-market car built in July 1988
- Only eight registered keepers from new
- Good history file of maintenance and old handwritten MOTs
- 2 key
- Factory book set with wallet in good condition
- 14 service stamps to 2005 and further attention documented in history file
- Recent £2,500 work by specialist documented in photos and summarised below
- This included a full service
- MOt to 21st July 2025 with no advisories
- 136,441 miles showing on MOT test and now on 136,458 miles
Recent work in May and June 2024:
- Full service
- Water pump
- Shock absorbers
- Front discs and pads
- Ball joints
- Four new Avon tyres
The Condition
- Stylish factory ‘triple black’ colour scheme with matching hard top
- Blacl (040O) paintwork and hardtop in very presentable condition
- Some light marks to note to paintwork including bonnet stone chip
- Fitted with an optional rear spoiler
- There are also touched in edge chips to driver’s door
- Bodywork in good order with points to note in photographs
- These include bubbling to nearside sill rear edge and offside rear arch
- Chrome trim and bumpers well presented with light marks and dents to note
- Black fabric roof in good condition with clear screen and good colour depth
- Black hard top also well kept and fits correctly with good headlining
- Gullideckel alloy wheels with matching spare in presentable, lightly marked condition
- Avon tyres recently fitted all round
- Underside presents in good condition with no structural advisories on current MOT
- Black leather interior in good, original and lightly patinated condition
- Some minor signs of age to driver’s seat and trim elements
- Fitted with factory rear seat with belts and front orthopaedic seats
- Veneers, switchgear and dials in good, working order
- Later Blaupunkt Santa Cruz head unit fitted
- Some wear visible to certain trim items such as in rear area of interior
The Mechanics
- Reliable 2,92cc straight six 185bhp engine
- 4spd automatic gearbox
- Recent work to running gear
- Recent full service
- Regularly used and no reported running or driving issues
- No mechanical or running gear advisories on current MOT
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