You can't really believe everything you see in that price guide. For example that guide lists prices for P3's. No P3 has ever been sold.
The 300SL sounds cheap at $220K / $242K until you realize it needs a complete restoration, has no books, tools or hard top etc...
But James Colburn didn't fart in the seats of this one. Some people will pay a premium for those things...
We tried hard. Took it to $4.4M but at 4.5m plus commissions we would have been into the car $4.95m and that was what we figured it was worth to an end user! Oh well, you can't get them all! By the way, yes it needs a full giant restoration but that would have been the fun part! Bill