Description
1995 C36 AMG
93, 000 miles.
Full known history.
MOT to 29/ 05/ 26
Early 1995 build, first registered on 01/ 05/ 95 as M87 UCW.
One of the nicest, most original and best known C36 AMGs in the UK.
Magazine featured in 2019 (copy of the magazine, along with USB of the high resolution images included)
Rare, early Schwarz Cloth trim (601A), Air conditioning (with sunroof delete), Cruise Control, Adjustable Column & Electric Drivers Seat.
Even the spare wheel is the original 1994 dated Bridgestone (not that I would recommend use) and original First Aid Kit.
Comes with original handbooks, a raft of receipts & original Ciceley Continental brochure
Ultra rare optional rear sport seat.
M87 UCW’s History:
Supplied by Ciceley Continental, Preston, (of BTCC Ciceley Motorsport fame) to Warburtons Bakery, Bolton. I understand for the use of then Co-Chairman Mr Tom Warburton, who was a car enthusiast and Historic Rally driver. Being an early 1995 it features the earlier switchgear, amber side repeaters and the one piece AMG emblem on the boot.
In 2000, at 5 years old and after covering 58, 215 miles it was advertised for sale by Lodge Motor Company in Hampshire for £17, 995. Where a Mr & Mrs Barry traded in their 1992 190E against the C36.
Wearing their private plate of VJB33, Mr & Mrs Barry kept the C36 for 13 years, always garaged alongside their R107 Mercedes SL, reputedly, never venturing out in the rain.
2013 it moved to Mr Love, who knew the Barry family through his business, where it joined his R129 SL500. Mr Love only keeping the C36 for 12 months and advertising the C36 in 2014.
2015 I bought it from Mr Love, in my ownership it wore the registration C36 AMG. Last year I had the itch that had to be scratched… a W204 C63 AMG.
I sold the C36 and bought a C63 estate PPP. The C63 made me giggle like a child at the noise and performance. Earlier this year we planned to move house, and our house sale was going much quicker than our house purchase, so we decided to downsize cars and put the C63 up for sale as were going to be renting for a while. The longer-term plan had been to buy another C36 as a bit of a weekend tinkering project. After rejecting some, what I felt was over ambitiously priced cars, the moons aligned, and I saw my old C36 for sale**, though back on its original M87 UCW plate. The timing was lousy, it was far more than I wanted to spend, given the house move, but I thought we would be in the new house pretty swiftly.
Here am a few months later, our new house purchase is as shaky as one of Rachel from Accounts plans, and we are potentially looking at other properties without as much garage and parking space. While we consider our options, the storage for the C36 is increasingly an issue. So I though I would put it up for sale, should there be a serious buyer interested.
The C36 sold for £24k last year, though at the time it did include the C36 AMG plate. So effectively the C36 in isolation was £19k. I bought it back at what I felt was a steal and I’m not looking to capitalise on. It owes me £14, 400. So that’s what it’s going up for.
This condition, history and miles, I genuinely don’t believe you could buy an average example and make it nice for this money.
Anyway, here’s the story of how I came about owning it first time around…
I had been searching for a C36 on and off for a couple of years. I had become a little despondent of what was available and had started to look at C43’s instead. Mr Love’s C36 was the most expensive I had seen advertised and looked great in the images. But I was looking for a well optioned C36 with Leather seats, climate etc etc.
I kissed a few more frogs viewing C36’s (and C43’s), one thing I did come to realise, was the C36 with leather seats was rather slidy when pressing on, something no doubt Mr Warburton realised and stuck with the factory cloth seats. In early 2015 it came home with me, back to Lancashire, where it had started its early days.
I have been up and down the country in the C36, and a trip to Le Mans. Always serviced using genuine filters and Mobil 1. It has wanted for nothing, when not being used it is kept, under a dust cover in a dehumidified garage.
The engine loom was rebuilt by Si-Leck Motorsport Wiring who specialise in 90’s Mercedes looms (as well as Motorsport looms).
Being a 1995 build, it does not suffer the 1996 introduction of water based paints that have caused so many corrosion issues on later 90’s and 2000’s Mercedes products.
A/ C condenser and dryer replaced.
2x Sets of keys.
** Why did Mr Jones only keep the C36 for 12 months I expect you are thinking? When he came to see the C36, he had been looking for a fully optioned C36 with Leather, Climate etc. Mine was the nicest he had seen, and bought it with the plan to change the interior to Leather. In the meantime, he found a late 1997 C36, fully loaded with pretty much everything option and only 55k miles. FIN WDB2020282F231472
Model C36
Engine 104941 22 048043
Transmission 722328 04 131772
Order Number 0 5 537 57442
Order Location GREAT BRITAIN
Interior FABRIC "MAGNUM" - BLACK (601A)
Paint 1 BRILLIANT SILVER METALLIC (744U)
Delivery Date 1995-04-06
Approx. Build Date 1995-03
Code Description
222 RIGHT FRONT SEAT, ELECTRICALLY ADJUSTABLE
240 OUTSIDE TEMPERATURE INDICATOR
291 AIRBAG FOR FRONT PASSENGER
341 ADDITIONAL BLINKER LAMPS
362 RHD VEHICLES AS PER EC REGULATIONS (CONTROL CODE)
420 AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION 4-GEAR
443 TEMPOMAT (CRUISE CONTROL), AND STEERING COLUMN, EL
461 INSTRUMENT WITH MILES IND. AND ENGLISH LEGEND
570 FOLDING ARMREST, FRONT
586 BEHR AIR CONDITIONER, AND ELECTRIC WINDOW REGULATORS FRONT AND REAR
DOORS
593 HEAT-INSULATING GLASS, ALL-AROUND, HEATED REAR WINDOW PANE (SINGLE-SHEET
SAFETY GLASS), BAND FILTER
613 HEADLAMP LEFT-HAND TRAFFIC
655 SPORTS CHASSIS WITH 5-HOLE LIGHT ALLOY WHEELS
668 MODE OF PACKING VE III WITH STYROPOR BUMPER RAILS
673 HIGH-CAPACITY BATTERY
772 AMG STYLING PACKAGE - FRONT SPOILER, SIDE SKIRTS AND REAR APRON
774 SHELL MODIFICATION FOR AMG-WHEELS
776 WHEEL COVERING FOR AMG 17-WHEELS (ONLY EXPORT)
833 ADDITIONAL PARTS FOR GREAT BRITAIN VEHICLE VERSION
956 EQUIPMENT PACKAGE SPORT
957 AMG - ENGENEERING PACKAGE
984 COC DOC. DELETION OF VEHICLE REGISTRATION DOC
