1967 Mercedes Pagoda 250sl

Price: - Item location: Wilton, Connecticut, United States
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1967 Mercedes-Benz 200-Series

Beautiful steel blue 1967 Mercedes 250 SL Pagoda. Restored to very good condition. Car brought over from Paris and arely driven. Low mileage 45,000. Body in very good shape however garage door hit the rear trunk and scratched it which is an easy repair. Hardtop in excellent condition as is interior. The soft top will need replacing (http://www.ebay.com/bhp/w113-pagoda) due to the friendly mice in the winter! Comes with some spare parts (lights etc) as well as European licence plates. Number 950 off the line of only5,196 manufactured. The 250 SL was introduced at the 1967 Geneva Motor Show. Production had already commenced in December 1966 and ended in January 1968. The short one-year production run makes the 250 SL the rarest of the W 113 series cars. The 250 SL retained the stiffer suspension and sportier feel of the early SLs, ut provided improved agility with a new engine and rear disc brakes. Range also improved with increased fuel tank capacity from 65 L (17.2 US gal) to 82 L (21.7 US gal). Like its predecessor, he 250 SL was offered with a 4-speed automatic transmission, nd 4-speed or ZF 5-speed manual transmissions. For the first time, n optional limited slip differential was also available. Of the 5,196 250 SLs produced, ore than a third were sold in the US.