Here most of us are absolutely paranoid about rust - a little seen usually means a lot unseen. I would want to make sure the "surface rust" is truly just that.
Nevertheless, there are brave souls on this board who have resurrected total rust buckets and ended up with nice cars. I recall someone in NZ posting about rust repairs, which seem to be commonplace in your climate.
To put this in perspective to US readers, this would be around 9K. We PROBABLY could get a better 450SL than that condition at a lower price here, but your local situation might be different. Our cars were also loaded with automatic transmissions, A/C, power windows, climate control, etc, and were originally more expensive.
Pictures will tell a million words, Under body rust can be a nightmare if its not just surface.
These cars were pretty well under sealed so if there is rust there it means the under-seal is long gone which could lead to there being more rust then described.
Also it looks like an Ex UK car and we all know about there retarded Salt on the roads in winter...
12k is a lot for an SL with rust issues in my books.
I went to have a look yesterday....interesting visit.
Firstly, the seller didn't use a hoist properly and dropped the hard top onto the car resulting in a big chip of paint.
Initial impression was great but took it for a spin and pulled over to inspect.
In my opinion, it has recently had a lot of touching up of paint done....not very well in some places.
The boot stank of white spirit (or something similar) and there was something amiss with the paint in and on there.
Under the bonnet, there has been recent painting also.
It had to be a no this time...few things not quite right.
I will keep on looking! :thumbsup:
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