My buddies and I went and saw the 190sl I mentioned earlier - it is in much better condition than I was expecting so it will not be coming home with me anytime soon.
The owner wants to sell but the car is at his mother's house and he doesn't want to bother her so we are going to try to have it delivered to my friend's commercial premises so we can put it up on blocks, take some pictures see if we can sell it for him.
The details:
1960 190sl with a 1963 hardtop and a softop, 125 k miles, average quality repaint say 25 years ago, sat since 1993 in dry garage in a townhouse project, Looks to be all there except for a broken front turn signal lens and missing knob on one window winder (window goes up easily without it), Blaupunct Radio, clock, guages, floor mats etc. all there, Seats have been recovered with a soft leather, slight rust bubbling apparent at body seams and around headlights, fenders have spot welds on them in engine bay, twin solex carbs look new, most chrome has slight pitting all over (too much to pollish out) except grill which looks to be in excellent shape (maybe it was replaced), Floors seems to be intact and the rear tire well is starting to rust but not through yet. It would need a complete resto to get into car show quality but probably not much more than a few hours work to get it on the road.
If anyone here is interested let me know and once we get it into my buddy's shop I'll give you more info.
I'm not a car broker - we are just helping him out to sell his car.
Car is in North Vancouver Canada but should roll easily onto a car transporter or into a container for a long distance trip.
