Freddie Mercurys Mercedes 420 SEL

[Prawnboy]

rosscobmw said:

FRIENDS.......

............WILL BE FRIENDS.

[Six Fiend]

Excellent find and well done for saving it

[Polarbert]

Thats absolutely smashing!

[y2blade]

I love old Mercedes, good on you OP for saving it.

[y2blade]

rosscobmw said:

The MK2 Astra GTE is a 3.2 V6 which used to be a friends daily, now awaiting a full resto.

Wow, cool

[TheHighlander]

Found this online and you can see it was at auction with 99,000 miles
http://www.reocities.com/SunsetStrip/stadium/5025/...

http://freddiemercuryfanclub.musicblog.fr/41/

[s p a c e m a n]

His old Rolls Royce recently sold for £74k, can you speak Russian??

http://www.nme.com/news/freddie-mercury/68401

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Brilliant

To be honest I've been waiting for another exciting R'sC thread to come along that would be worth following, it's stories like this that make the place.

Hope the updates keep coming OP

[Polarbert]

There must have been a lot of people having a look at this thread as the chap has exceeded his photobucket bandwidth allowance!

[EdJ]

Great thread - look forward to updates! Even ignoring the famous former owner, the 420 engine is lovely - I've got one in my 1986 420SL.

[rosscobmw]

Think I'm just going to have to sell up. I cant afford to give this car the resto it deserves, and its got far too much history to just weld the diff and take to driftland. Just need to find an enthusiast willing to give me some decent money for it.

[s p a c e m a n]

It can't be that bad. Would've thought it would be hard to lose money on it if you sorted it out and pushed it through the right auction, just don't go overboard with it