Pictures of a 560SL that was driven 800 miles then stored. It looks just like the factory original. If you're restoring your car to factory original, this is what you're aiming for. Click on the picture to see a slightly larger version.
__________________ When I die, I want to go quietly in my sleep, like Grandpa.
Not screaming, like the people in his car.
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That makes me want to just drive mine down to the scales and sell it for scrap iron.
Thanks Scott, your car makes me feel I have a junker and now this!
Oh well, it is a sharp ride.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance...
Rollin' restore on a
1980 450SL
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
That makes me want to just drive mine down to the scales and sell it for scrap iron.
Thanks Scott, your car makes me feel I have a junker and now this!
Oh well, it is a sharp ride.
Although it's a beautiful SL and in as new condition I look at it another way.
That car is IMO unloved, a little sad and too good to use.
At 900kms on the odo it has almost no fantastic holidays, day trips or experiences with a partner in the passenger seat that our SL's have in droves. It will also probably be sold to someone who will continue to keep it in a sterile storage condition or drive it very little and so it will have missed the point of being created.
If it was Australian delivered [RHD] and I could afford it, I don't know if I could drive it like I do with my own SL. It should at least sit in a MB dealers showroom and be seen.
Not locked away.
What would you do?
Drive it or store it?
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Andrew
87 300SL [A classic roadster for a run through the hills]
86 420SEL [A big Benz limo for a night out with friends]
"That's the way I like it baby, I don't want to live forever"- Lemmy
Last edited by A&L's300SL : 11-03-2007 at 08:06 PM.
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