Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Photo Gallery => Topic started by: Peter van Es on December 13, 2010, 16:12:39
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For those of you into pictures of filthy cars, even worse, Pagoda's, here's a couple of mine. This weekend I completed the final rally of the year with my wife. The rally started in the Netherlands, and was a two day affair, going through the Kempen in Belgium. For those of you that don't know that area, it is pretty rural with many unpaved roads, used by farm tractors and so on.
During the event we covered some 650 km's, many on these unpaved roads. Now up to this weekend we had snow and frozen ground... and salt remains from the frosty weeks preceeding. On thursday it started thawing and drizzeling. During the weekend, the unpaved roads were completely muddy. Mercifully we never got stuck, although it was close a couple of times. So the car got a great coating of mud in all the wheel wells, on the exhaust, etc, etc.
Anyway, here are a few pictures of my car. I'm sure most of you would never let the car get this dirty, hey, but you do rallies, or you don't. On sunday night, after we returned, it was beginning to get below 0 centigrade again, so I went to one of these DIY car wash places with warm, soapy high pressure water, and spent most of an hour trying to get all the mud off. I took my jack and lifted the car at each corner in turn, to be able to give the car a good spray.
When I finished the last wheel, mud was still soaking and dripping off the first wheel... so I did each wheel again... I think I have 95% complete, including all the areas in the fold over metal parts, but then I ran out of coins.
So, still more work...
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I very much like the idea of a thread where we can post our dirty (pagoda) pictures. My wagon is particularly filthy at the moment, maybe I'll start a similar thread on one of the the other forums...
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It doesn't look too bad. You can still see the back lights. I was expecting mud on the roof too. 8) :o
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There was dust on my hood and a thread on my top when I went in the heated garage yesterday. Good thing I caught them right away! I'll get some pictures next time.
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Peter, Some mud flaps for christmas would be a nice idea - :-\
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There was dust on my hood and a thread on my top when I went in the heated garage yesterday. Good thing I caught them right away! I'll get some pictures next time.
LOL. ::)
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It doesn't look too bad. You can still see the back lights. I was expecting mud on the roof too. 8) :o
There was. iPhone photographs don't show it.
Peter, Some mud flaps for christmas would be a nice idea
Reggie, good idea. Interesting point, were mud flaps an original option for Pagoda's?
There was dust on my hood and a thread on my top when I went in the heated garage yesterday. Good thing I caught them right away! I'll get some pictures next time.
You should. Share the pain. Anything that requires you to "apply water" must be too distressing an experience ;)
Peter
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I've never applied water to my 250 SL or Porsche 356. But, I was forced to apply water after driving 200 miles in the rain and 1000 miles overall in my Concours level 190 SL during our Michigan convention this year.
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What would you like me to say, John? "Please in future don't bother if it is such a pain?"
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?????