Eh?
Wheels are fakes.
Interior is pre '96 facelift, exterior has been 'updated' with post-facelift bits.
I would want to check VERY carefully that this is a real SL60. Assuming it is a 1991 car I also think the price is silly, given that it's LHD.
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Eh?
Wheels are fakes.
Interior is pre '96 facelift, exterior has been 'updated' with post-facelift bits.
I would want to check VERY carefully that this is a real SL60. Assuming it is a 1991 car I also think the price is silly, given that it's LHD.
keysl
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I was going to mention the 2 slats on the wings rather than the 3 it should have. Couldn't see very well on my iPhone though but it's definately had a lot of panels replaced. I wonder if it's crash damaged and rebuilt as an AMG rather than originally starting life as one...
Also got clear front indicators, and no side repeaters?!
As an early car it would originally have been 'two-tone' as well i.e. the lower body cladding panels in a different finish.
As an early car it would originally have been 'two-tone' as well i.e. the lower body cladding panels in a different finish.
keysl
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Anybody fancy hpi'ing it 
Dee-124CAB
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something not quite right about this car.....being a 1991 car, it should have the Generation1 AMG bodykit with the earlier 3 piece AMG split rims....but is actually wearing a Generation2 AMG bodylit that was introduced at around 1997 with the later AMG alloys.
Could it be that it went back to the factory later to have the AMG modifications done or were they simply bolted on by a previous owner.....Either way the story about it being the very 1st SL60 is highly debatable....
Could it be that it went back to the factory later to have the AMG modifications done or were they simply bolted on by a previous owner.....Either way the story about it being the very 1st SL60 is highly debatable....
talbir
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If that car is a genuine SL60 and as good close up as it looks in the pics, then it's worth every penny.
Very rare to see a CIS engined 6.0 AMG M119.
The car has a super color-combo.
Left hooker makes it even more interesting - of course on cars like these, left or right makes no difference, actually i think such cars that are LHD are even more desirable....being exactly the way Stuttgart intended them on the drawing board !
Talbir
Very rare to see a CIS engined 6.0 AMG M119.
The car has a super color-combo.
Left hooker makes it even more interesting - of course on cars like these, left or right makes no difference, actually i think such cars that are LHD are even more desirable....being exactly the way Stuttgart intended them on the drawing board !
Talbir
Vlad
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Good grief...that interior looks as if its come out of Huggy Bears Caddilac.
Lovely exterior colour..looks like Bornite to me...my favourite colour on early 90's Mercs.
One thing that strikes me as odd when reading the write up is the removal of the seats, painting of the seat frames, cleaning of the carpet and sorting out the electricals for the seats......could this indicate that this car has been wet at some stage hence the need to repaint rusty seat frames, deep clean the carpets/dry them out, and sort out water logged electrics?........or it may be that the guy is just very, very thorough as the rest of the car appears to have been cleaned just about everywhere else
Lovely exterior colour..looks like Bornite to me...my favourite colour on early 90's Mercs.
One thing that strikes me as odd when reading the write up is the removal of the seats, painting of the seat frames, cleaning of the carpet and sorting out the electricals for the seats......could this indicate that this car has been wet at some stage hence the need to repaint rusty seat frames, deep clean the carpets/dry them out, and sort out water logged electrics?........or it may be that the guy is just very, very thorough as the rest of the car appears to have been cleaned just about everywhere else
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talbir
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Huggy Bears Cadillac ! Fantastci 
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BANANASPLIT
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The colour is called Bornite I own one in this colour and it is one of my favourite colours on an R129. Being a 1991 car the correct name for this model should be 500sl 6.0 and not SL60. The bodykit is wrong as the one on this car is made for a 1995 and on AMG car. Pre 1995 the AMG kit was different and more angular like a wedge shape. I would be careful and make sure that it really is fitted with the AMG 6.0 engine before buying and in my opinion whoever supposedly updated this car with the newer AMG bodykit has actually reduced the value of the car.
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I agree with all the comments as this car seems a little weird and heavily modified from how it would have rolled out of the factory. A 1991 car should have earlier panels, side skirts, bumpers etc. The seats are not standard items. Looks like a 4 speed auto though which would be correct. The rear lights and front indicators are not original. There seems to be just as much non-original about the car as original.
This is not worth that kind of money to me being LHD and very non-standard. Seems a little suspect to me....why would you change the original body panels/bodykit if there wasn't a story attached to it. The non-AMG wheels often say quite a lot from what I have seen.
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Long gone are the days when a LHD was worthless in the UK. In today's market a LHD vehicle will command a premium on a UK RHD car. The three main reasons are:
1:The influx of europeans into the country in recent years.
2:The number of wealthy UK citizens who have bought a second home in Europe.
3:When it comes to selling a rare vehicle the internet has made this world so small and it is now so easy for a European to buy from the UK.
I sold my LHD Ferrari within two weeks to a gentleman from Sweden who saw it on the net and a few hours later was in London making a deal with me.
Now I am selling my RHD Ferrari and it has been stuck in a showroom for 6 months at a very reasonable price with no takers. At the price it's advertised at if it were LHD it would have been sold a long time ago.
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BANANASPLIT
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I forgot to also mention the recent Euro/Sterling exchange rate which has increased the number of LHD buyers from Europe looking for vehicles in the UK.
it looks like it will not sell here, i spoke to him and his next place is ebay.de to try to sell to a LHD fancier.
i am thinking he should have grabbed my offer of my sl 500 with ROO 793 no plate in str8 swap considering the experts comments here about mods and being 1991 sl 500 6.0 not an AMG.
let us wait n c
i am thinking he should have grabbed my offer of my sl 500 with ROO 793 no plate in str8 swap considering the experts comments here about mods and being 1991 sl 500 6.0 not an AMG.
let us wait n c
BANANASPLIT
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If it truely is a 1991 500sl 6.0 then it is an AMG car. I was just making a point that the 6.0 v8 AMG r129 SL was not called SL60 in 1991 it was just known as an AMG 500SL 6.0.
I don't know the history of the car and I haven't seen it in person so I cannot confirm or deny the owner's claims that the vehicle is an AMG. I just want whoever is interested in the vehicle to be careful and do their homework as to confirm wether it truely is an AMG car or not. All I can say is that the bodykit is the newer shape AMG bodykit as fitted to the 1995 and newer r129 SL. The wheels that should be on an early AMG r129 SL should be the 17'' 3 piece OZ design AMG wheels. Maybe it is an AMG car and a wealthy owner updated the look to the facelift model 1995 onwards SL60. I have seen it many times here in Dubai where an owner has taken a perfectly good and rare car and has destroyed it by updating the look of it to the current model.
There is actually an SL AMG for sale right now in Dubai where the owner has updated the look from a 2005 sl55 to a 2010 sl63. I've seen Porsche 996 Turbos updated to look like 997 Porsche Turbos. In the long run it destroys the value of the car but in the short run it is a cheaper alternative to buying the latest one from the dealer and everyone thinks that you have the latest model car.
Regards
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By the list of works id say the guy selling it has had a lot of problems with it.
tpwuk
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Would the VIN number be of any help?
keysl
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It's possibly been stolen recovered - which would explain the later bodykit/panels/wheels etc. The insurance company would have written it off as Cat D or C and then it's been bought back on the cheap and had the new panels fitted as the old ones are rarer.
Probably seemed a good idea at the time "yeah, stick the updated wing panels on it whilst we're doing everything else" etc and "those wheels are pretty much the same" etc etc....
This work may have been undertaken many years ago....
Probably seemed a good idea at the time "yeah, stick the updated wing panels on it whilst we're doing everything else" etc and "those wheels are pretty much the same" etc etc....
This work may have been undertaken many years ago....