Equipment
Alloy block, disc brakes, Becker Mexico cassette, body color wheels with hubcaps and trim rings, Talbot outside mirror, Euro headlights, alloy block, disc brakes.
Condition
Represented as matching numbers. Beautiful fresh paint, major chrome and interior but with many troubling details: rusty trunk lock, missing hardtop C-pillar molding, cracked old rear window and windshield seals, thin trim chrome, primer overspray in the A-pillar rain channels, exterior overspray on old undercoat in the wheel wells. A premier 300SL presented in mildly disappointing condition.
Market commentary
Sold by Gooding & Company at Pebble Beach in 2014 for $1,512,500 ($1,375,000 hammer), its detail faults are indicative of less than assiduous passage through recent ownership and unrealistic expectations on the consignor's part. It really could have been sold reasonably for the reported high bid.