[If you're going for authenticity, wood wasn't used in 1973; didn't appear until 1977.]

Sources: See John Olson's book, The SL Experience. The 1972 MB catalog I have shows the dash of the then-"350"SL with a leatherette finish on the narrow trim strip and the console; it looks black on the particular interior shown, which I think is a blue interior. Check out used cars online, and if you can get one that shows interior shots well you'll see no wood in the earlier 450's. Park Place, Ltd in Oregon had a really pretty '74 450SL on their site a few months ago with a parchment interior; it had matching leather/Tex on the console around the shifter and the heat controls, and the narrow trim strip under the vents matched the dark fascia around the instruments. This is all among the remains of moderate book=buying and intense netsurfing over about two months, before finding my car two miles from my house....once more demonstrating Bill Cosby's assertion that God has a sense of humor!

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Craig Bethune

'97 SL500, 40th anniversary edition

'04 Olds Bravada (SWMBO's)
'06 Lexus ES330
'89 560SL (sold)


SL--Anything else is just a Mercedes.
(Kudos to whoever said it first)