Kevin, As someone else has already intimated, the "rare Mercedes SL" which you saw, if indeed it was a W107 body style, was a 280SL which were made from '74-'85 and not imported to the U.S. as far as I know (See pg. 140, "Mercedes-Benz Production Models Book 1946-1990", by W. R. Nitske.
G. M. Brown Rochester, NY
