Author Topic: Famous owners (Read 38466 times)

n/a · « **on:** October 01, 2003, 08:08:25 »

Can anyone help me?

We are filming an item on BBCs Top Gear with the SL Pagoda and we are really keen to find out the names of famous SL Pagoda owners, past and present.

If anyone can help it would be much apprecited.

Kind regards
Michelle Julier
Top Gear

rwaw · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2003, 10:18:33 »

David Coulthard

rwaw · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2003, 10:19:10 »

when will this programme be screened ?

280SL 1969 Euro RHD

n/a · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2003, 10:54:19 »

Audrey Hepburn

tobacco · « **Reply #4 on:** October 01, 2003, 11:01:18 »

Colin Powell, as I understand it.

Bill Greffin
Chicago
#22375

Cees Klumper · « **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2003, 11:08:50 »

To recap and also to add some:

David Coulthard
Peter Ustinov
Stirling Moss
Sophia Loren
King Hussein of Jordan
Juan Manuel Fangio
Colin Powell
Audrey Hepburn

Cees Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

rwmastel · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2003, 11:25:14 »

Carlo Riva was the original owner of my 1966 230SL.

See http://users.libero.it/rivahs/ for the Riva Historical Society. Carlo Riva is still with us as far as I know.

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both tops
1994 E420

n/a · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2003, 11:39:28 »

I think Elvis bought one for Pricila. Pretty sure there's one in the auto museum at Graceland, but I'm not sure. I tried to validate it on the web but couldn't find anything.

Who more famous than Elvis?

Shawn Rock
Philly, PA USA
1968 280 SL 4 speed

Douglas · « **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2003, 12:08:12 »

Governor Jay Rockefeller (W.Virginia-D) and Sen. John Glenn (Ohio-D)(Also, the Moon)

Douglas Kim
New York, NY
#018260

n/a · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2003, 12:17:57 »

Found it. Here is a photo of a white 1970 280 SL given to Pricila by Elvis. I knew I saw one when I went to Graceland. That was over 12 years ago!

http://www.tcefanclub.com/foto/bilar.shtml

Shawn Rock
Philly, PA USA
1968 280 SL 4 speed

LFrank · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2003, 12:26:18 »

John Lennon
(too bad there is no pic of Elvis at the wheel!)

LFrank
Washington DC
65 230 sl - auto
DB334/Hellblau

pierre · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2003, 15:48:22 »

Last week I saw in a magazine miss France , a familiar wheel in her hands
Pierre 1964 230 sl 4 spd
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pierre · « **Reply #12 on:** October 01, 2003, 16:03:13 »

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Pierre 230 sl 64 4 spd
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kns · « **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2003, 20:36:13 »

Michelle, does your enquiry extend to the use of the Pagoda in movies? For example, I recall seeing a still of "Oddjob" in a Pagoda in a James Bond movie, and I expect that there are many other such examples known to the group......

Cheers (and good luck)

kns.
1965 230SL, Manual
[1965 220SEb Coupe, Man.]

Tom · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2003, 20:42:22 »

Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)

Naj ✝︎ · « **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2003, 07:17:39 »

Mihelle
Can we buy an uncut video of the Pagoda material you gather?
(For a fee of course!!!)
Would be good to know when you are going to screen it.

naj

'Kloines Scheisserle'
65 230SL
68 280SL

Peter van Es · « **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2003, 09:31:33 »

Don't you need a large bunch of Pagodá owners to attend to ensure that Clarkson keeps us on the "ice cool" wall?

We might even bring our cars...

Peter

Check out http://bali.esweb.nl for photographs of classic car events and my 1970 280 SL

n/a · « **Reply #17 on:** October 06, 2003, 13:02:35 »

Go to www.oursl.com to see a picutre of Colin Powell will his 113.

230SL

Albert-230SL · « **Reply #18 on:** October 07, 2003, 07:44:32 »

We have a list of notable owners in our site:

http://www.sl113.org/detours.asp

Albert de la Torre Chavalera
Barcelona (Catalunya/Spain)
Feb.'64 230 SL Euro 113042-10-002432

n/a · « **Reply #19 on:** October 08, 2003, 02:44:15 »

Dear all,

Thank you so much for such a massive response, I passed all your ideas onto Jeremy and the filming went very well. The new series of Top Gear starts on Sunday 26th Oct, 8pm, BBC2. At present the Pagoda piece is shceduled for transmission on the 21st December, however items regualry get moved, I guess you'll just have to watch the whole series to make sure you don't miss it!

Many thanks again, especially to Kim who I spoke to.

Kind regards
Michelle
Top Gear Researcher

kns · « **Reply #20 on:** November 06, 2003, 14:12:37 »

This is probably a dead topic, and this post is perhaps off the topic, but who knows if the next 'list' will extend to the Pagoda in the movies? I just woke up in front of the one-eyed monster to find myself half way through a 1968 film "Nowhere to Run" with Christopher Plummer and Rod Taylor. The 'beautiful young sophisticate' played by Camilla Garv rushes Rod Taylor to Wimbledon in another beautiful young (then!) sophisticate, the Pagoda. I couldn't pick the model from the short glimpse, but I was delighted to see that the colour was identical to the car of which I presently have custody.

Cheers

kns.
1965 230SL, Manual
[1965 220SEb Coupe, Man.]

Cees Klumper · « **Reply #21 on:** November 06, 2003, 15:07:26 »

The topic "W113 in the movies" has been addressed before in several places - for example, here are some posts off the old Yahoo! W113 site:

"Insomnia, flipping through channels, came accross a movie called Gold, with Roger Moore (looking VERY young) and Susannah York. They were driving an SL in South Africa; a white one with the top down. Anyone else seen this film?

Ah, Susannah York. Almost as good as Audrey Hepburn in "Two for the Road." And how about the one I saw earlier in the week -- a very nice blue one tooling around Bloomington in the classic "Breaking Away" ('79?)?

Last one I saw is in "Killing me softly" a 2002 movie.

In the movie "Intersection" Richard Gere totals his 113.

Other movies with a Pagoda in them (info from Pagoda113.com):
- Shampoo
- Nothing to Hide
- A "Colombo" episode with Leslie Nielsen driving an ivory Pagoda
- A sixties TV commercial for Mr. Slim cigarettes ...
- Walt Disney's "That Darn Cat"
- Life or Something Like It (2002)
- Elizabeth Taylor drove a 113 in "Butterfield 8"
- An odd colored 113 appeared in a recent film called The Blonde Bombshells with dame Judi Dench
- "Die, die, my darling" (previously released as "Fanatic") has a 230SL in it

Cees Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

tuultyme · « **Reply #22 on:** November 06, 2003, 16:48:33 »

Julie Andrew drove a silver Pagoda in "10".

Bruce; Blaugrun(green) 1970 280SL; IL

n/a · « **Reply #23 on:** November 07, 2003, 08:09:51 »

James Erle Jones drove one in Sum of All Fears. You didn't really see the car, but the shot throught the windshield was clearly a 113.

Shawn Rock
Philly, PA USA
1968 280 SL 4 speed

kns · « **Reply #24 on:** November 09, 2003, 20:14:13 »

OK, I'll try to make this my last post on this thread!

It seems that many of the cars mentioned below were 230's, at least according to this rather specialist site:
http://www.hampstead.com.au/mb/index.php

Searching for 250's was not very productive, but for those of you with 280's, the list includes:

Shampoo
Hopscotch
Sum Of All Fears, the
Killing Me Softly
10
Intersection
Let's take Sweden
S.O.B.
Fear
Breaking Away

Cheers!

kns.
1965 230SL, Manual
[1965 220SEb Coupe, Man.]

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