First registered on the 19th of February 1987 (the day this writer was recovering from a hangover after celebrating his 18th birthday the previous day…) this epic Limarit Blue Perle Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC is the car your mother warned you about.

In the care of the vendor for the past 18 years and a genuine UK model, it was heavily refurbished at the end of the nineties and then again only recently.

Sitting on Eibach suspension and breathing through a custom stainless-steel exhaust, it sounds amazing and goes as well as it looks following a recent respray and a peerless servicing regimen.

With 150,000 miles on the clock, only around 5,000 of which has been accrued in the vendor’s hands, this is a well-fettled, regularly used example that’s just about run-in by now.

Dry stored and with plenty of life left in it, this is your passport to all of your Greed Is Good eighties fantasies.

The Limarit Blue Perle paintwork is the same colour it was delivered in back in 1987.

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