Mercedes E320 Cabriolet

[dazzalse]

We owned one of these back in 1995 and they were really wonderful, over engineered cars. However I have now been offered a 1 owner 1996 E320 Cab, with climate control A/C, Electric Heated memory seats, sportline, Cruise, wood/leather steering wheel, electric steering column adjustment, ASR, very rare hard top and headlamp wash wipe with 19,000 miles with full MB service history from new by the supplying dealer. Colour is solid black with mushroom hide. I seen the car and it is unmarked and has been garaged and covered from new by its elderley lady owner who is now giving up driving (she is a friend of my parents) the car has obviously been maintained well, last invoice show expenditure of £2,500 and servicing has been consistant every 6 months and she tells me she has always told the service manager to not worry about the cost and to maintain it in "as new condition"

Has anyone any idea what this might be worth, she mentioned to me 20k, I think this is about right but dont want to take her on as she is friends with my parents, Anyone have any ideas?

[dazzalse]

Well I've bought it this afternoon, have been over earlier to see her and I am collecting the car on Saturday, I've been through all the paperwork and cant believe that the car has had 27 main agent services from new, every 6 months some of them only 300 miles apart! She has every MOT and invoice from new and has just returned from being serviced, another couple of hours and I think I would have missed out as she told me the dealer principle has phoned her twice today as he wanted to buy the car for his wife as she mentioned to the service manager that she was selling it.
I also noticed that in there garaged under a cover is a E320 Estate from the same year, both bought by her late husband, apparently the gardener told me it was only ever used for the first 3 months after delivery, before he died and the car has been laid up since, fully loaded and only 983 miles from new! I spoke to her about this and she said that she could never part with it. I am hoping she will let me have a look at the estate when I go on saturday with my father. Will report back on saturday after I have collected the cabriolet