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W113 Pagoda SL Group => General Discussion => Topic started by: UJJ on June 05, 2013, 13:34:35

Title: Pagoda Ad
Post by: UJJ on June 05, 2013, 13:34:35

I do not know how many of you visit other Pagoda Club websites.
I frequently visit the German Pagodetreff site, since I speak the language (helps) ;)
Look what I found there...

Compared to modern ads quite a pleasure to watch IMO.
The ad is 14 min. long (not to worry it is in English)  ;D and the driver looks like my college professor did. ::) :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIuo82fubVA

Urban

Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: mbzse on June 05, 2013, 14:11:25

Quote from: UJJ

.../...Look what I found there...
Urban

See:
http://www.sl113.org/Video.html (http://www.sl113.org/Video.html)
The college professor lookalike is a (at the time) famous F1 and Touring pro driver, Karl Kling.  In the sixties he became Stable manager for M-B rally efforts
/Hans in Sweden

Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: Bonnyboy on June 05, 2013, 19:13:15

I like how he undid the levers for the hard top just by reaching backwards - I tried that and put my back out.

Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: Neil Thompson on June 05, 2013, 21:56:06

another great video, there are so many!, couple of things I noticed were something at 3 mins 55s, below the bumper looked like a valance/spoiler of some kind?, also the round horn ring.

thanks for sharing Urban

Neil

Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: mbzse on June 05, 2013, 22:29:34

Quote from: griffin

.../... couple of things I noticed were something at 3 mins 55s, below the bumper looked like a valance/spoiler of some kind?, also the round horn ring.

The car in the video is an early pre-production 230SL. See reply No 5 in this Forum posting:
http://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=9675.msg67206#msg67206 (http://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=9675.msg67206#msg67206)
/Hans in Sweden

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Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: Rolf-Dieter ✝︎ on June 06, 2013, 00:33:24

Google  ... Top gear Season 3 Episode 8 to see another slick video from Jerremey Clarkson ... He called our car a COOL CAR in this 2003 Episode :)

Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: Jonny B on June 06, 2013, 14:58:29

Indeed, lots of small details about the car are different. But one other thing I noticed was the mention of "Pagoda-like roof" when they were talking about the sight lines and ingress/egress. I take it this ad was done in late 1962??

Title: Re: Pagoda Ad
Post by: Tomnistuff on June 06, 2013, 17:24:28

On this site, there has been much discussion of MB luggage for the SL.  The video shows lots of info about the luggage that would facilitate reproduction.  I never noticed it before.
Tom Kizer