Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Wanted To Buy => Topic started by: Jacob66BVM on November 27, 2024, 22:56:49
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Hi All, Hoping to find the Padre Pagoda. a '65 230SL Silver with Red interior. I wrote about years ago in 2017 on this forum. Link here
https://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=27021.msg193620#msg193620
Hello, New member here from Minnesota. I have been lurking for some time. Registered today to post my new journey. Hoping to someday acquire a Pagoda and currently tracking one from 26 years ago that resided in a church parsonage's garage. It was a '66 silver car when I saw it in 1992. My wife and I were married in the adjacent church that year. Today I had lunch with my life long friend, the Padre that performed our wedding ceremony, and I asked him about the car. Stored there for the owner as he was overseas, in later years the car was moved to a barn where mice had taken up residence. When the owner returned to the states the car was in fact sold in 2004 and was not in the best of shape. Word has it that the car continued to be stored in the afore mentioned barn even after the sale. Padre is making some calls this evening to get the latest.
12/25 Update- A big thanks to Dave Tobin of daveknowscars.com for reading the post and putting together the out of state move. He asked if in fact the owner was a Dr, which he was and we concluded that the Padoga he had inspected in 2010 out on a farm, was the same car I am searching for. Dave provided me with over 140 pictures and even a write up he did on the barn-find at the time in the Spring edition of the Northern Star club newsletter(attached). The car is a European model 230 SL auto trans that was originally imported into the U.S. in the mid 1970s. Up until this time I did not know if the car was a 230 or 250, manual or auto trans etc. Here is the link to the '65 SL230 that was removed from the parsonage and hauled on a flat bed to a farm 90 minutes west of the Twin Cities to Hutchinson, MN.
Sadly the car was infested with mice and sunk into the ground and left for dead. From here we know the car was sold but do know know its fate. https://flic.kr/s/aHskqimLig (https://flic.kr/s/aHskqimLig)
I am very grateful for getting this far and proves the value of this form and enthusiast community.
I am asking the pagoda community to help me learn if this car was in fact parted out, sent back overseas or? Any info is appreciated. Regards, Jacob.
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**Update Attention Poland. This car MAY have shipped from the United States of American to Poland. Attention Poland, has anyone seen this car there?