This left-hand drive example was built in 1960 and refinished with new paint and a retrimmed interior in 2020.

It also boasts a non-original Mercedes-Benz 2.2-litre six-cylinder M127 engine along with a column-change gearbox.

The vendor bought it in Lebanon in 2021 and imported it to the UK in the July of the following year.

It is not currently registered in the UK.

The seller finds he’s gradually accumulated a good-sized classic car collection over the years and has decided the time has come to rationalize it, hence the sale of this and the 450SLC we’re also auctioning for him.

Freshly repainted in 2020, the coachwork on the Adenauer is wonderful.

It’s a great shape anyway, all sweeping lines and compound curves, but the new red paint really sets it off, doesn’t it? The lack of B-pillars gives the side profile a clean look too, something the longer, rounded roof of the 300d contributes to.

It’s got good chrome, too.

Shiny and undamaged, there is a little pitting but nowhere ne...