Daily Driven1999R129
1999 Mercedes-Benz SL500
🇦🇪 Emirates Modern Industrial, United Arab Emirates
Project Benz documents Mercedes SL (R129) culture without softening it: the crisp Sacco roadster with its automatic pop-up rollbar, the 7.3-litre SL73 AMG, the V12 SL600, the sweet-spot V8 500SL, and the usable sixes underneath. It is part owners' registry, part technical archive, with factory specs for every R129 variant, restoration and buyer's guides, paint codes, and wheel fitment, mapped to real cars in real garages worldwide. The cleanest Mercedes R129 builds and the reference to make sense of them, on one feed.
The R129 SL is the roadster that defined 1990s Mercedes design, with its crisp Sacco lines and an automatic pop-up rollbar that deployed in a fraction of a second. Built from 1989 to 2001, it paired a folding soft-top with a removable hardtop.
The range topped out with the 600SL and its M120 V12, while the V8 500SL is the sweet spot for many. Solid, usable and increasingly collectible, the R129 is a modern classic on the rise.
Document your car, put it on the map, and help build the SL section. Any state, stock to modified.