1976Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9

The autobahn’s velvet hammer.

Mercedes’s answer to the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow — and a quiet rebuke to it. The 6.9 paired hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension, borrowed from Citroën, with a near-seven-litre V8 the company refused, for years, to publish a horsepower figure on. Robert De Niro drove one through Paris in Ronin. Today, fewer than a thousand exist in road-going condition. Ours is one of them.

Engine

6.9 Litre V8

Coachwork

Silver Mink

Bodystyle

Saloon

Built

Sindelfingen, Germany

Chassis

W116

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Provenance

Single ownership 1976–2014. Original paint, chrome and trim throughout. Hydropneumatic system intact and factory-pressure tested. Books, tools and original keys present.

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