Highlights
- Well maintained car with recent service
- Smart Forest Green paintwork with matching hard top & smart black soft top
- Recently recommissioned with extensive mechanical work
- Runs and drives well with smooth box and engine
- Long MOT to July 2025 with no advisories
- Historic status so entitled to be MOT and Tax exempt if new custodian chooses
- Very attractive and tidy 280SL
The Appeal
If a history file is your starting point for buying a R107, then look no further than this lovely Forest Green 280SL. Its extensive record of invoices and receipts covers a raft of recent work to the engine, brakes, steering, gearbox, shock absorbers, electrics and fuel system.
The result is a car in very good mechanical order that is said to run smoothly, change gear effortlessly and brake and steering just as it should. Beyond the driving experience this is a very well kept car with very good bodywork in an appealing colour and a smart Parchment interior. There is even a small rear seat.
This 1983 car achieved Historic Vehicle status this year but the consciously vendor has helpfully continued to MOT it, giving the buyer transparency over the condition. The current test runs to July 2025 with no advisories. For added appeal it has just had a full service tool. A great car that is ready to fire up and enjoy.
The History and Paperwork
- First Uk registered 1st August 1983
- Current keeper since March 2020
- Previously in long term storage
- Current keeper recommissioned the car with a long list of work detailed below
- Extensive history file of invoices and receipts
- MOTs back to 1992 with gap for period of storage
- Fully serviced in July 2024
- Invoices for parts acquired by current and previous sellers
- Historic Vehicle since 1st April 2024 and so MOT, tax and ULEZ exempt if required
- Current MOT runs to 2nd July 2025 with no advisories and 138,914 miles showing on test
- Little used since MOT test completed
The Condition
- Attractive and original Forest Green (822) with matching hard top
- Well kept paintwork with only very minor marks to notice up close in photographs
- Bodywork is well presented with bulkhead checked, repaired and wax oiled
- Hardtop in good order with tidy paintwork, fittings and headining
- Correct factory black hard top in good order with clear rear screens
- Sits on factory correct, recently refurbished ‘Mexican Hat’ alloy wheels
- Underside in good order with no structural advisories on current MOT test
- Professionally waxoiled underneath to preserve condition
- Parchment checked fabric front seats in good order with only light marks visible
- Fitted with a rear seat conversion in beige leather but with no seatbelts currently fitted
- Carpets in beige and generally good through cabin and boot with only light wear
- Wooden steering boss with matching centre console and factory dashboard veneers
The Mechanics
- 2,746cc straight six engine
- 4spd automatic gearbox
- Mechanical overhaul since 2022 summarised below
- Vendor reports the car starts, brakes, steering and drives very well
- We are also told that the gearbox operates smoothly and kicks down correctly
- No mechanical or running gear advisories on current long MOT
Mechanical work since 2022:
- Brakes overhauled
- Steering checked and refurbished
- New dampers all round
- Fuel pump replaced
- Electrics checked and fuses changed
- Full service in July 2024
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