• Delivered new to the French overseas territory, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon • Fitted with its matching-numbers engine • Presented in its original colours • Comprehensively restored during 2014/2015 • Rare manual example • Accompanied by an extensive history file "Every driver who has more than a purely utilitarian interest in automobiles should drive a Mercedes-Benz 250SL at least once in his life.

The car is an almost perfect yardstick against which to measure any other car.

There are cars with better acceleration, cars with better brakes, cars with better roadholding.

But there is no car we can think of that has such a remarkable, good balance of performance, safety and comfort, and has them in such an absolutely civilised structure.

" - Car & Driver .

Introduced late in 1966, the 250 SL used the same bodyshell as the 230 SL which had founded Mercedes-Benz's spectacularly successful sports car dynasty, and which it replaced.

Minor improvements were made to the interior but the ...