Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Photo Gallery => Topic started by: Garry on February 22, 2015, 11:35:36
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Mercedes Benz in Victoria Australia had their concourse day today and I have just got back home after a 350km round trip. Hare are a couple of photos of some of the cars. I was fortunate enough to be awarded an “Encouragement Award”. The red Pagoda in the first photo won the Class
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Very nice Gary. I like the "El Camino Ponton". Weather looks warm and sunny in contrast to the snow, ice and cold this year up here.
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I will second Joe's comment, love that little 220 S pickup!
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Indeed a very nice "bakkie".
Apparently Binz made 400 of them for the South African market: http://www.mbzponton.org/pax058/people/photogalleryvariants.htm#historical%20perspective
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Garry,
Congratulations... you know that yours is the correct one, but thanks that elsewhere you allowed us to have a guessing entertainment with the red one :)
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Congratulations Garry! Well done. I ditto the comments made by everyone above ...
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Thanks all for comments, I think it is an encouragement award to come back next year. From now on I am going to use it as much as possible, no more concourses.
Alfred I dont think it is a South Africa ‘bakkie' as it does not have the seperate tray to cab at the rear but is one whole body panel.
Garry
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Hey Garry,
Congratulations on your award.
Nice mix of cars at the outing.
Like you I believe in using my car regularly, so it is my weekend and holiday car.
I take it almost anywhere.
cheers mate,
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Three Gullwings and a Roadster - good meet.
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Garry,
"Encouragement award"? Really? How rude. I hope you called in an air strike on the judges' caravan!
Sounds like 'thanks for coming' to me. You must try harder! (Presumably you will, now you're more encouraged, rather than less encouraged, which presumably you would have been had you not won the encouragement award, etc. Don't suppose they issued a discouragement award for those who they'd prefer stayed away?!)
;D
James
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Hi Gary,
May be you should have been encouraged to have asked for a recount !
keep well
Paul
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There were some truely great cars at the show in all the different classes. They had more than 150 Mercedes there so there was plenty to choose from.
As always in these subjective assessments, everyone has an opinion on which cars are good and I thought that there were several really outstanding cars in the early Sl class (which included several 190SL’s and they well and truly bettered my car but they did not even get a mention in dispatches. I was a bit flabbergasted to say the least but hey that is competition and me living on a dirt road and then having to drive 150km to the show and then have an hour or so to clean it does not help. It is just too hard to keep it in tip top condition and at the same time and i really want to enjoy it more and drive it more so paint chips etc are unavoidable.
I think I will concentrate on the Kombi for a couple of months getting it ready for a 12,000km trip mid year. :o :o ;D
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I was a bit flabbergasted to say the least but hey that is competition and me living on a dirt road and then having to drive 150km to the show and then have an hour or so to clean it does not help. It is just too hard to keep it in tip top condition and at the same time and i really want to enjoy it more and drive it more so paint chips etc are unavoidable.
I hear you Garry I am in the same boat: spend 30 hours prepping the car for a concours, then drive 200km because I am too poor (or too cheap?) for a trailer and I like to drive my car (real reason), arrive 3 hours before the show and use that time to remove all traces of the trip. But then, you need to drive BACK home another 200km, which means you need to clean it again when you get home.
I like to drive old sports cars more than to clean them. And every km you drive in a freshly restored 230SL (especially the 230SL) takes it closer to "condition 2" where all the $$ and time invested in the car cannot possibly be recouped. Like Mike S wrote in another post, it starts deteriorating the day after the restoration is completed, making it increasingly difficult to keep a car looking "fresh" like it does the day the restoration was completed.
What I need is a butler
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You can also just drive. Like me. As all attendees at European Events can attest to. I drive. A lot. Hard. Except for when Karin drives. Then it is "harder". And we enjoy that a great deal, but we'll never win prizes (well, rally trophies perhaps).
Peter
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... well, rally trophies perhaps ....
Personally I value those a lot more - 10K more! - than any concourse trophy simply because greasing palms or promising reciprocation doesn't make you faster or more accurate on the rally circuit.
Happy rallying Peter!
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Totally agree, I have got it as best I can without spending a fortune so it now my driver to enjoy, no more concourse, so just a shiney one for a year or so ;D