Highlights Naturally aspirated 5.4-litre AMG V8 with a proper old-school soundtrack Freshly resprayed in its original Iridium silver Subtle, tasteful spec with a black-finished folding hardtop and gunmetal AMG alloys Well optioned Extensive documented service history Overview Plucked from the canon of “small cars with a big engine”, the SLK 55 packs a large amount of lovely-sounding handbuilt engine into a suitably modest footprint.

Drop the folding roof, thumb the starter and the 5.4-litre M113 V8 clears its throat with the kind of naturally aspirated bark that turbochargers have generally smothered everywhere else.

There's 360 bhp and 376 lb ft here, hand-assembled at Affalterbach and squeezed under the bonnet of one of the smallest cars Mercedes made, and the result is a pocket-sized roadster that pulls hard, sounds glorious and still wafts when you want it to.

What sets this particular car apart is how well it wears its two decades.

It's recently had a professional full respray...