Topaz Brown, Brown soft top, Mushroom MB Tex interior, rare manual gearbox, manual windows, rear seats, original Becker Monza radio/cassette player, original 14” alloy wheels, all tools and manuals, FSH, only two owners from the same family, 71,000 miles. This totally original early R107 SL in the incredibly rare (we have never seen another) colour of Topaz Brown with Mushroom MB Tex interior looks almost as good now as when it emerged from the Mercedes factory in 1975. It is in fabulous condition throughout, and looks delightfully ‘retro’ in it's period colour scheme. It is a true time warp vehicle and it drives superbly. Being a left hand drive car and built ‘as designed’ it does drive that little bit better than any right hand drive example, as do all left hand drive Mercedes. It is difficult to believe that it is now over 45 years old and at that age it does of course gain an exemption from UK road tax and MoT testing, though we will put a new MoT on it before handover to it's new owner. Built only four years after the model’s inception and being an example produced for the home market, it has all the delightful original details from when the model was released, prior to any facelifts. Examples are the small Chrome door mirror, two tone tufted carpets, moulded rubber boot mat, traditional style steering wheel, older style column stalk, foot operated parking brake and windscreen washers and wind-up windows. For all these reasons, as well as the condition and the rare colour scheme, we think it will appeal strongly to the serious collector of Mercedes-Benz cars. The car has been in the same family since new. It was purchased and collected directly from the Mercedes factory in Stuttgart by a hotelier based in the Black Forest town of Freudenstadt, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany and is still original and unrestored. It had limited use as he had a workaday vehicle for the hotel and a modern Mercedes for personal use, so it was mainly used for touring.