Beware! This R129 is a complete lemon!

[FUBAR]

One of my rugby mates turned up in this SL500 a couple of weeks ago. Thought to be the only yellow one in the country?



Now, I'm partial to a yellow car (see my profile) but I'm not sure about this one.

[tobinen]

An acquired taste

[900T-R]

Suits you Sir In your place I'd make him an offer...

[bmthnick1981]

Factory colour or respray?

I like yellow cars but dont think i'd go for it on a R129, to me they are supposed to be sort of understated... not shouty!

[FUBAR]

I'm not 100% sure but the way the lad was talking it was factory colour.

[Nuisance_Value]

I see that one has a panny roof, which means there's at least one other in yellow as I saw it a few years ago driving on the opposite side of the road to me, and it had a solid hardtop.

Now I'm not sure if I remember this rightly, but something tells me I was once told there was a R129 SL60 in yellow somewhere in Scotland.

Was this the same car? I don't know, but I like to think so.

[Paz565]

I keep seeing a random wing mirror in that exact yellow on Ebay for one of these, personally I'm of the opinion that the R129’s look best in darker simple colours.... like mine

[coetzeeh]

sheesh, I was going to report you to the Cerb police Fubar! Thought you'd become a Merc man.

[tobinen]

Even MB can't decode it!

CHASSIS WDB1290672F165206
ENGINENO 11998222017666
POWER_PS 320
POWER_KW 235
BRAND 095 = Mercedes-Benz
TRANSMISSIONTYPE A = automatic transmission
MODEL SL 500/500 SL
BODY 1 = Cabriolet/Roadster
PAINT 000 = Paint not yet defined
METALLIC N
UPHOLSTERY 261 = Leather black
ALLWHEEL N
ENGINETYPE 2 = Petrol
NUMBEROFDOORS 2
CYLINDERCAPACITY 4973
CLASS SL
BRANCH 0 = Passenger car
Final inspection date 28/01/1998
Gross vehicle price 84578.65
Net vehicle price 71981.83
Vehicle tax value 17.50%
OPTION Z98 = Paint not feat.on standard sample card
OPTION 241 = Front seat,electr.adjust.left w/memory switch
OPTION 242 = Front seat right, electr.adjust.w.mem. switch
OPTION 249 = Automatically dimming int.and ext.mirrors
OPTION 340 = 3rd stop lamp
OPTION 415 = Panoramic glass roof
OPTION 461 = Instrument with mileage reading
OPTION 501 = Exterior mirror LH and RH with memory
OPTION 533 = Loudspeakers front and rear - without radio
OPTION 565 = Rear seats fabric
OPTION 600 = Headlight cleaning system
OPTION 613 = Headlamps for RHD vehicles
OPTION 668 = Prod. prot. f. freight pkging with tie-down hooks
OPTION 740 = Soft top black
OPTION 808 = Technical modifications
OPTION 833 = Additional parts for UK vehicles
OPTION 984 = COC paper - no registration certification
OPTION 000

[HumbleJim]

Perhaps it's a factory special order paint.

[tobinen]

That's the logical conclusion.

[TinyCappo]

Man from Delmonte owned that!

[Emeye]

TinyCappo said:

Man from Delmonte owned that!

Or a British Rail manager?

[B17NNS]

It's a crash test car. They've patched it up and removed the stickers and dummies.

[Stuart Davidson]

It looks Mercedes Yellowstone to me. More popular on early SLKs. Without checking back through old brochures I can't remember whether it was a standard SL colour. My guess would be a Designo-style special order.

[Dog Star]

I rather like it.

[SilverPhoenix]

Stuart Davidson said:

It looks Mercedes Yellowstone to me. More popular on early SLKs. Without checking back through old brochures I can't remember whether it was a standard SL colour. My guess would be a Designo-style special order.

I pretty sure it was a Designo colour - on the R170's anyway.

Yellowstone & Sunburst Yellow are the same colour. Paint code 685, if I remember correctly.

[Wills2]

I think that looks fabulous.

[MURRAY007]

tobinen said:

Even MB can't decode it!


PAINT 000 = Paint not yet defined

OPTION Z98 = Paint not feat.on standard sample card

READY FOR THIS. IT CALLED..........




SL500, III/10, PORSCHE-GELB



Which as you can guess is Porsche Yellow.
Thats right WE/Merc stole the colour from them.

Hope this helps. (not sure why your Merc dealer couldn't find that out)