Just want to share the feeling

[emilo]

Thought I should add a pic of my SL500 and remind the other SL-owners at the forum that the summer is here!

[spinedoc]

You misrepresent yourself!!! If summer was really here you would have the hard top down!!

Great looking SL bro! Glad you are enjoying it.

[emilo]

The picture is from last spring,, That's how I got reminded. Took it for the first ride of the year yesterday after changing distributor caps and rotors. I'm gonna have a cupple of pictures taken as soon as I can get the weather to "smile". Then you'll see it without the hardtop on and with the new tail lights.

[Pete Geither]

How in the heck do you get the big pictures posted?????

[spinedoc]

Hey fess up on the tail lights. Did you get darker ones?

[emilo]

PJG56 - Its just a matter of Photoshop work Got the picture right at 66k.

Spinedoc - It's not the darker ones. It's the post-1996-ones. (At least I think it was '96 that they upgraded the tail lights) they are much smoother shape and a bit darker red than the previous ones. The yellow parts is also of a red tone. I will follow up this post with the new pictures as soon as I get them taken and you'll see.

[Pete Geither]

Emil,,, thanks, I'll try playing around with it. Pete

[spinedoc]

Ive got a 91 and a 96 and dont see any difference in the tail lights, maybe it was 97 on up.

[emilo]

Is this the ones you've got?? Not the best photo of the tail lights but I think you can see it. ..

[den500sl]

97 sl500 triple black
Sport pkg 1
25k mi

[emilo]

It's possible. Hard to tell from that little image. I've got the new ones mounted on my car and the old ones stored in my garage so I will see to it that a closeup of the different tail ligts will be posted on this post.

[G-Benz]

You guys are talking summer but posting pics of your cars with the hardtop on!!!

C'mon! Lets see the ragtops!

[den500sl]

my 97 sl500 sport pkg 1 on AMG monoblocks bears remarkable resemblance except for Wald accessories.

If my memory serves me correctly, the tail light lenses were changed in '99, along with the outside mirrors. Neither is a big change; fairly subtle unless you have a '99 and a '98 parked beside each other. The grooves in the tail lenses were smoothed considerably---they have a rounded cross section instead of the square corners on the '98-back. The rear view mirrors are more rounded.

Travis

[emilo]

travis129 - That sounds like the description of my tail light lenses. However, , I think I used the registration number from a SL from 97 when I ordered the new lenses. Maybe it was different i Europe (Sweden).

den500SL - Much better. They look like mine but it's hard to be sure without looking at mine at the same time. Not sure if I recognize the well marked white parts for the reverse light though...