One to Buy: 161km single owner 1 of 3 in Black 2009 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss
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Arguably the most famous win of Mercedes’ dominant 1955 World Sportscar Championship campaign with the 300 SLR came at the 1955 Mille Miglia where Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson set a course record that remained unbeaten until the event’s 1957 demise.
To honour that remarkable run by Moss and Jenskinson where they averaged 99mph and completed the 992 mile course in ten hours and seven minutes, 54 years later Mercedes launched a radically restyled iteration of the SLR inspired by those open top racing cars of 1955.
Unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2009, the SLR McLaren Stirling Moss was a limited run of 75 units based on the enhanced 722 Edition underpinnings draped in a spectacular Spyder-esque carbonfibre body created by a design team led by Korean stylist Yool Il-hun.
Despite having had no roof, windscreen or side windows (and a price in excess of $1m) the entire SLR Stirling Moss production run was pre-sold to existing SLR customer within a few days of the car’s announcement.
Of the 75 examples built, the overwhelming majority were finished in Mercedes’ traditional silver colour scheme. However, a handful of customers requested alternative liveries such as the buyer of this car currently on offer at the Schaltkulisse showroom in Munich.
Understood to be one of just three units configured in Black, this one owner German delivered machine is in immaculate condition throughout having covered just 161km from new.
