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Mercedes-Benz 280SLC

Mercedes-Benz 280SLC

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Lot number 57
Hammer value £1,900
Description Mercedes-Benz 280SLC
Registration WGA 842W
Year 1981
Colour Lapis Blue
Engine size 2,746 cc
Chassis No. 107022220099535
Engine No. 11098622010690

“The SLC was surely never intended as a sportscar. It is so elegant, so superbly balanced in line and form, so exquisitely contoured to look beautiful from any viewpoint that to subject it to the gross indignities of any kind of track would be sheer vandalism. And yet the car begs to be driven in a sporting way, positively solicits the fast corner, the fine balancing of foot and hand, of centripetal and centrifugal accelerations. It is surely the best Mercedes-Benz ever to have been built for common sale.”

As you will deduce from the above, the famously hard to impress motoring writer, LJK Setright, was a huge fan of the Mercedes-Benz SLC, rating it far superior to its convertible SL sibling and being one of the panel who voted it European Car of the Year in 1974.

The only Mercedes coupe ever to be adapted from a soft-top rather than a saloon, the SLC was basically a W107 Series convertible stretched by ten inches to give room for two rear seats and given a fixed steel roof. Launched in 1972 and remaining in production until 1980, it came in four engine sizes, the car you see here being fitted with the creamy smooth 2.8-litre straight-six that could whisk it to 60mph in just 9.6 seconds on the way to a top speed of 125mph. Fantastically strong and stable at speed, the SLC made a great long distance rally car, winning the South America Rally in 1978 and coming second on the East Africa Safari.

Dating from April 1981, this Lapis Blue example has a cream leather interior and has covered some 94,500 miles from new with a very large history file which includes 15 old MOTs.

Recent expenditure includes a new waterpump, fuel pump and battery. The vendor has also fitted two new front tyres and advises us that it is MOTd until August 2015 with no advisories. He describes it as running and driving nicely and is only offering it for sale as he has a nasty case of ‘too many cars, not enough space, not enough time’ syndrome! 

 

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