Where in the UK is the car now ?
Hello lads and thanks Mike for chiming in and showing the original pic of the car when Will had it. Was wondering where that was.
You know Will bought it from Al Awir from a local chap working for the RTA, they done the deal after he rolled past him and Will said is the car for sale and deal was down right in the office there.
Will was a fellow expat based here in Dubai and I meet him in 2009 when I first moved here as I was looking for a 500e then ended up helping with his race car (M3 GTR) and became good drinking mates.
At the time Will then sold the 500e aka "The Duchess" (FYI it was called the Duchess as part of Cockney-rhyming-slang and east end London description by the service manager that looked after the car here as he loved the old girl and how tough the car was...the monkier stuck since.)
The 500e then was then sold onto to a fellow enthusiast and mate of mine here who ran its part of the "Management Fleet" of
www.crankandpiston.com a local motoring community and website here.
More on the car when it was crankandpiston.com here
http://www.crankandpiston.com/on-the-road/the-management-fleet-mercedes-500e-the-duchess/
The owner of the website actually has a soft spot for W124's and found a rare E60 here too
http://www.crankandpiston.com/on-the-road/e60-amg-the-greatest-car-you-didnt-know-about/
Then eventually I managed to pry the car from crankandpiston.com and get into my hands. Where I went about improving it and getting a few things sorted on it like exhaust etc.
So the pic's in the article I published are way back when the car was just new to the crankandpiston team hence in a bad way. The owner then spent a fortune on the car and once passed on to me I did the same and continued to improve it.
The car essentially became like a camp fire for our friendship keeping the thing alive and ensuring all work was done carefully and in good taste. Regular reports and banter on the car was shared with Will (now in Hong Kong) and Phil from crankandpiston.com
I needed a newer car so replaced it with a 2012 Porsche Cayman R (PDK) and in doing so the original owner (Will) wrote to me from Hong Kong to say he'd like it back.
The car was sold and shipped back to the UK (to Will's home address there) still on it's Dubai export plates. Will being the type of chap he decided then quite fittingly, the next trip the car should do would be to bring it to Le Mans with a Lotus and Ferrari 360 CS (pic's attached). Many indicator lenses falling out on the way as he converted the car back to legal headlights but as you can probably tell the alignment was an issue.
At the moment the car is located in the UK and Will is slowly going about doing a full restoration on the car as it was his first car in Dubai and my first car too. He has promised to keep in touch and send me through progress reports and pictures of the car as the work (mainly paint and properly aligned lights for now) gets done.
Overall as I said real life with real cars is more interesting than documenting some mint model from a collectors a/c garaged. Indeed in fact someone here wrote awhile ago that the E500 in the Porsche museum had a few dings and bangs and a healthy 70k on the clock. That in my book makes it even cooler.
Every car you own is part of a journey of a certain chapter of your life therefore one of the most interesting in mine had been moving from Ireland to Dubai and I felt luckily to own such an iconic and truly special car. Driving down the main highway here (SZR) it felt great and like a proper two fingers up at the shiny new car brigade here in their Yukons, Ranger Rovers and other tinted tacked up tack.
That's the story of car and no doubt everyone on this blog would have an equally interesting story about the story of their car too.
If somebody wrote exactly the same about my car in that condition I would accept it. 
Anyway if you restored that really great news 
You said you sold it ? What was the reason ?
