With just three former keepers and fewer than 79,000 miles on the odometer, this Pearl Grey Metallic 500SEL was meticulously serviced until it was laid up in 2003.

It spent the next 15 slumbering, remerging in 2018 only to be serviced again.

After spending its first years in Northern Ireland, G434 ELB’s UK MoT record starts in 2024, where it passed both tests with flying colours.

Part of a small collection since May 2023, the seller’s kept it under a cover in a dry garage, only wheeling it out for high days and holidays.

At 36-years-old this S-Class still sports tight and even shutlines, a bank-vault thunk when you close a door, and more presence than Tom Hardy in a grump.

The major panels are also free of dents and scuffs, and it’s worth squatting down and peering along its flanks to admire the lack of ripples and car-park dinks: Finished in Pearl Grey Metallic, paint code 122, this is what you get when solid engineering meets appreciative owners.

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