You can't always get what you want: like this silver beauty

Last Saturday night was the most exciting sporting event ever on telly since the 1959 world curling championship in Scotland.

What many of you need at this time is the 2009 Mercedes-Benz/McLaren SLR Stirling Moss that's under the hammer today at RM Sothebys' Villa Erba auction and champagne tasting. Yours for around $3.2 mill, this is one of only 75 that were built and were only offered to Mercedes customers.

Paying homage to the 300 SLR in which Stirling Moss won the 1955 Mille Miglia, the Mercedes-Benz/McLaren SLR looked crook and was a disappointing ride. About 2000 were made from the McLaren factory in England and you can probably pick one up for about $800k.

On the other hand, the Stirling Moss SLR is a stripped down version — all the original car was meant to be. First up, they restyled the car to look less like a German lounge on wheels, ripped off the roof, tossed the windshield and took the 5.4-litre supercharged V-8 engine up to 460kw.

Now I don't want to scare you but this Merc is good for 350km/h which, given there is no windscreen, doesn't do wonders for your hair, the wrinkles on your face or the ciggy in your mouth.