Used Car of the Day: 1985 Mercedes-Benz 380SL

by Tim Healey

Published: May 24th, 2024

used car of the day 1985 mercedes benz 380sl

Today we feature a 1985 Mercedes-Benz 380SL.

Our seller says it needs a cosmetic restoration. It is being sold with both a soft top and hard top and has a tan interior.

You'll have to contact the seller for more information -- the ad is quite concise -- but can tell you the asking price is $9,000 and the vehicle is located in South Carolina.

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[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Ras815 on May 25, 2024

Those enormous, hideous U.S. spec bumpers remind me of those full-head orthodontic braces that kids used to have wear back then, too. Yikes.

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IBx1 on May 26, 2024

Never got the appeal of these; it looks like there was a Soviet mandate to create a car with two doors and a roof that could be configured in different ways.

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