For sale or swap: w126 merc 560sec taxtest reduced £500

[HMC]

i'm sure ive posted about my 560sec before but cant find the thread. Its been huge fun owning it but time has come to sell...

 

its a 1987 560sec. Most expensive car offered by mercedes at the time. At 58k list more thann the average house! 5.5 litre v8 822 option on the build data card so factory figures of 300bhp and around 7 seconds to 60. limited slip diff. The engine and box seem fine, the engine doesnt smoke, the car is reliable and quick. I recently bought a new battery. The tyres all look quite new with good tread.

 

The electrics all work- including seats (elec/ heated) steering collumn cruise etc except the sunroof, and the drivers seatbelt butler.. Theres no traction control (mercedes offered ASR which takes some of the fun away from these machines- if full bore starts are your thing this car will oblige.) Full black leather interior and original becker mexico stereo casette player. I've fed the seats and aside from the odd scuff they are great.

 

The body has a few issues, bubbling round a couple of the arches, the front arch leading edges have new metal let in but require painting. the rear screen surround is bubbling at the base. the front screen slightly at the top. The sunoof used to leak and has been sealed closed. the front screen leaks and I have removed the chrome trims, siliconed around the margins and replaced them. The screen still leaks!

 

This car is certainly worth more in parts, but its still a together, reliable fun car. Reminds me of a 60s muscle car with its pillarless styling and grunty v8. I'm on orders to reduce my car numbers, looking for £550, but if someone had a car they'd like to swap, just let me know!

 

10 months MOT and 4 ( i think) months tax.

 

pics

[cort16]

Farkin hell this is mega. Where are you?

[HMC]

After all that i forgot to put that up! Tavistock, Devon

[Guest]

KIN ELL. That is smegging lovely.

[Spiny Norman]

After all that i forgot to put that up! Tavistock, Devon

 

Other end of the country, thank fuck!

 

I wonder if this is the fastest MOT'd, drivable, road legal car on sale in the country for a monkey just now?

[cort16]

Oh balls I was hoping you were going to say Glasgow

[Negative Creep]

Wow that is brilliant, and just round the corner. Would you be interested in a Bluebird as a swap?

[Spiny Norman]

Oh balls I was hoping you were going to say Glasgow

 

My wallet's glad he didn't.

[cort16]

If I buy the car and you pay for the fuel to get it back we should be in it for about 500 each.

[trigger]

Now this would be perfect for your charity run!

[gadgetgricey]

NNNNooooo, why post this today.

 

Was down in Devon on holiday last week, could have popped over and taken a look. Always fancied one of these since my Uncle had a similar one many years ago.

 

Dont think it will be around for long. Good luck with the sale.

 

Cheers

 

- Dave -

[Cavcraft]

Farking hell, that's an absolute shit load of car for pocket money.

[skattrd]

So much car for the money.

Someone go and rip his arm off quickly or I might do something I regret.

[HMC]

Wow that is brilliant, and just round the corner. Would you be interested in a Bluebird as a swap?

 

I do like the look of you Bluebird, but its not really my thing.

[HMC]

Forgot to mention comes with mercedes wallet with part service history, owners handbook, becker stereo handbook and code has the original service book stamped to 2004 IIRC. Looks like it was collected from the factory by the first owners (MB offered this at the time), as the PDI appears to have been done at the factory works.

[Pete-M]

Nnnnnnnngh. Why am I always out of space when stuff like this turns up....

[Guest]

WOOF! What a motor car.

[dollywobbler]

Wow that is brilliant, and just round the corner. Would you be interested in a Bluebird as a swap?

 

I do like the look of you Bluebird, but its not really my thing.

 

Thank fark for that! I was waving a hatchet over my Bluebird for a moment. Incredible car for the cash.

[idiotboy]

I love this car, but I've gone pale trying to figure out the fuel cost from Devon.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I'm very impressed. We're thinking of going halves on it with my shitist mate.

 

What sort of MPG do you get out of it? Is it a reasonable 25ish or something completely comical like 14?

 

Have you got any idea of the mileage? Does it come with any history?

[Pete-M]

I'm very impressed. We're thinking of going halves on it with my shitist mate.

 

What sort of MPG do you get out of it? Is it a reasonable 25ish or something completely comical like 14?

 

Have you got any idea of the mileage? Does it come with any history?

 

It's a £550 5.6 litre Merc. It won't do anything like 25 mpg, and if you're expecting to be able to use SOGA you're bang outta luck.

 

Clue, my old 5.0 W126 did between 11-14 mpg. 18ish just about possible on a run. This one is the 5.6.

 

You really don't know anything about buying big old barges do you? What Car / Parkers Buying Guide / Trading Standards / Small Claims courts do not apply here. Big cajones and a willingness to lose a few quid if it all goes wrong is how it works when you're buying 20+ year old 5.6 litre V8 Mercedes for less than a couple of weeks wages.

 

Service history would be a bonus, but it ain't a haggling point. The thing is damn cheap as it is.

 

25 mpg.... from a 5.6 litre, 300 bhp, £550 V8 Merc which weighs in at close to 2 tons. Yeah, that's likely....

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

C'mon Pete, I've never said I'm going to haggle at this price, and losing a bit of money's a given. I'm just thinking about how easy it's going to shift as a going concern in the future because I don't want it to go for parts when I'm done with it! 'tis true I've never had anything to do with an engine of this sort of size, but I'm willing to give it a go.

 

And I can get 40mpg out of the Granada.

[Pete-M]

Getting 40 from a Granada is easier than getting 20 from a 560.... a lot easier.

 

This thing appears to be a nice old barge. It cost about four times the price of a top spec Granny, and if you want to run it properly, you've got to expect to pay four times Granny money.

 

My old 500 was one of the very few cars I've ever owned where the fuel bills made me feel queasy.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Fair point. Certainly the high running costs are to be expected. I've got no issue with the MPG as I only view it as a toy and maybe (if I get the time, money and space to sort it) investment (although my SLAES SKILZ are awful- I can't shift a bloody Lexus with LPG for 500 quid), but my mate doesn't have a daily car and he'd be tempted to try some long trips in it. Let's hope he doesn't get too scared by the figures.

[Albert Ross]

12 years ago, I would throw £70 at a 300SE to get 280 miles. And that was the baby engine. Go figure. Luxobarges "ain't really" you, are they? Are they? Really? They are???? Fuck me. Bristol would throw you out of their showroom in a Clarkson-esque movement.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

They can be- in fact, I spent most of last night at the Savoy, drinking Roederer's finest (the fact that someone else was paying for it was, as you can appreciate, but a coincidence). I'd love one.

[Albert Ross]

So, what you spent on ONE night on the piss, could be the balance between affording this or taking the bus........................? NO?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Someone else was paying last night- I was merely assisting them in the consumption of the champers! I'd be very happy to take the Merc on, but I have no space, so it's got to be halves and thus OK'd by mate who may get frightened by MPGs and stuff. Update to come tomorrow after he's slept on it.

[Lord Sterling]

Personally I'd say just dont take it on, it'll only end in a world of pain for you and painful threads for us. Let someone who's willing to take it on and really look after it, possibly returning it to its former glory and not just see it as a mere toy/investment. A car like this will need to be looked after properly and therefore have (alot of) cash thrown at it.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

That's the whole point of the 'investment' part. Unlike 99% of the stuff we all love and drive, you can throw some money at getting this car sorted and have a realistic chance of getting some of it back when you come to sell it.