Feeling sorry that I had sold the 350SLC, I found this one and jumped at it. This was one of the last 450SLC's, a late 1980 Australian delivered model with only 180,000km on the clock - chicken feed for a V8 Benz .. 1981 was the last year of the Sport Light Coupe and in that year Mercedes Benz offered it with it's new aluminium engine; the 3.8 litre 380SLC. As I was preoccupied with the restoration of the Galaxie at the time, I decided that this one could sit for a while... trouble was, that a friend brought another bloke to my house for a social visit and he ended up buying it. In the time I had this car, I did do some refurbishment work on the interior woodwork and trim and replaced the rear muffler. I also replaced the headlight lenses and got spooked by the image of a nasty bloke in the headlight reflector! Seriously though, I haven't lost the desire for one of these beautiful cars... one day in the future, I'll be looking at the classifieds, a lovely coupe will pop up and...