Pagoda SL Group

W113 Pagoda SL Group => General Discussion => Topic started by: ZwoachtzigSL on December 22, 2005, 01:41:12

Title: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: ZwoachtzigSL on December 22, 2005, 01:41:12
Hello Friends.


I have got an old Mercedes from the USA offered.
The seller says everything is original. What do you mean,
is the supplyer serious?


Detlef, Bad Homburg (Germany)



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Stern-Garage
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: Cees Klumper on December 22, 2005, 18:53:06
From the color of the headlight lenses, this seems to be a French version and, if it is, I don't believe it could have come with the 'single fog light option', since that was only offered to Scandinavian countries.

Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: 66andBlue on December 22, 2005, 21:06:06
quote:
Originally posted by cees klumper

From the color of the headlight lenses, this seems to be a French version and, if it is, I don't believe it could have come with the 'single fog light option', since that was only offered to Scandinavian countries.
Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

Cees, I have this nagging feeling that Detlef wants to know whether the truck underneath was an original option for the car   :)
but more likely, he is just pulling our legs since he lives close to Mainz where "Fassenacht" (known here as "mardi gras") is already in season and he needs to practice  :mrgreen:  :D

Alfred
1966 blue 230SL automatic
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: Douglas on December 22, 2005, 22:08:24
Those must be the rare 15" wheels Fernando was asking about......
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: Chad on December 22, 2005, 22:24:57
As you can see there are clearly more performance tire options for those 15" wheels.

1967 230SL (ƒ=m*acceleration)
1958 180D (ƒ=m*gravity)
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: hauser on December 23, 2005, 00:23:44
This has been done on another Mercedes.  How quickly you guys have forgotten the jacked up 4X4 yellow SLK with a matching trailer.  Didn't the SLK circle the globe?  Or something to that nature?

1969 280sl 5 spd
Gainesville, Fl.
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: Cees Klumper on December 23, 2005, 00:30:16
Yes there was that 4WD SLK that circled the globe, or as I recall at least large parts of it. I believe the couple that drove it wrote a book about it. But that SLK was a more subtle "conversion" than this latest example.

Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic
Title: Re: Serious Offer or not?
Post by: waltklatt on December 23, 2005, 07:38:48
Guess this is what happens when you don't change your subframe mounts and then the shocks get longer and longer till you need to put bigger wheels on it.  Wonder how the mechanic feels when he opens the hood to find the motor way down inside the pit of the engine bay.  Might need a ladder to get to the valves.
Wink!
Happy Holidays to you all!  And be safe with your pagodas and yourselves!
Cheers,
Walter Klatt