1986 Mercedes-Benz R107 300SL
Highlights
- Older restoration with sparing use
- Recent service and tyre replacement
- Smart Thistle green paintwork and matching hard top
- Green leather interior
- Facelift car with desirable galvanised construction
- Thick history file of ongoing maintenance
- MOT until August 2025
- Recent gearbox rebuild
The Appeal
Here is a great opportunity to learn the secret known to serial R107 owners. They rightly value these cars for their usability, comfort, and ease of ownership.
Finished in smart Thistle Green with a matching hard top and complementary Fir Green leather interior, it is an early facelift car with a desirable galvanised chassis. The extensive history file includes a restoration and respray 10 years ago. In the intervening decade, it has covered only 5,000 miles and was stored by the previous keeper in a dehumidified ‘Carcoon’,
In present ownership, the Mercedes has undergone the necessary recommissioning for the road, undergoing a thorough service and the replacement of the rear tyres. It passed MOT in August 2024 and is now ready for a new custodian to enjoy.
The History and Paperwork
- UK market RHD example first registered 1st March 1986
- Eight registered keepers
- Restored and resprayed ten years ago with new panels fitted
- Photographic record of this work in history file and in photo stack
- Stamped service book to 127,264 miles in July 2017
- Odometer read 128,098 miles when the vendor acquired the car; minimal mileage covered since
- MOT until August 2025
- Dry stored during recent years in dehumidified ‘Carcoon’
- Factory handbook set in good condition
- Factory first aid kit, tool kit, warning triangle and jack in good condition
The Condition
- Recent valet
- Smart Thistle Green (881O) metallic paintwork with matching hard top
- Restored, including new panels and respray ten years ago
- Paintwork remains in very good order with only minor signs of use to note
- Bodywork is similarly well kept with localised points to note in photographs
- These include light bubbling to the offside rear sill and nearside front arch
- Other small marks include a chip to the rear nearside corner
- Exterior fittings are complete and undamaged and generally well-kept
- Lights in good order but with misting to nearside front headlight to note
- Underside in good order due to dehumidified storage and showing only light ageing
- Facelift car with galvanised shell
- Sill edges and underside would benefit from a wire brush and undersealing regime to protect
- Hard top is in good condition with clean and well-kept headlining and interior fittings
- Hard top cover and stand included in the sale
- We understand the soft top to be well-kept and serviceable
- Popular ‘Gullideckel’ alloy wheels in generally good order with only light marks
- Matching spare alloy wheel
- New rear tyres fitted during current ownership
- Fir Green leather interior in generally very good order with only light signs of use
- Leather seats in good condition with well-kept bases and bolsters
- Cabin veneers appear uncracked and very presentable with only minor delamination
- Green interior fittings, including door cards and dashboard, all well-kept, showing light wear
- Fitted with a modern stereo and cruise control
- Carpets in good condition with boot area appearing clean and little worn
The Mechanics
- 2,962cc straight-six 185bhp engine
- Four-speed automatic gearbox
- Factory fitted with ABS
- Gearbox reportedly rebuilt during previous ownership and recent repairs to the handbrake
- Recently serviced; previously serviced at 127,264 miles in 2017 by the last keeper
- No reported running or driving issues
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Vehicle specification
- Year 1986
- Make Mercedes
- Model SL Class
- Colour Green
- Odometer 128,098 Miles
- Engine size 2962
Listing Details
- Seller type Private
- Town Cardiff
- Location Wales
- Country United Kingdom
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