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cynewan

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #625 on: May 02, 2011, 04:04:29 »
I saw about 12 - 15 pagodas at startech 2011(Blackforest). Does that count ?

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #626 on: May 02, 2011, 11:53:50 »
I saw yours, convertible top up!  Did you enjoy your visit?
Enjoy some pictures at this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8292359@N06/sets/72157603240571101/show/

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #627 on: May 02, 2011, 14:41:41 »
Saw a dark blue one yesterday, the owner didn't see me. Usually I see one each week, most are the same cars, but once in a while a "new" one pops up :-)
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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #628 on: May 03, 2011, 00:22:10 »
I saw yours, convertible top up!  Did you enjoy your visit?
I really enjoyed my visit. I felt like a kid in a candy store . It was also nice to put a face to some members of the Pagoda Brotherhood ( tuultyme , iconic , Pete lessler , the lews &  GERNOLD ). I hope to make it to the  'W113 Mecca' (Blacklick) someday .
  John- I was admiring that blue 190sl on the rack . Thumbs up........ Michael told me it was yours.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #629 on: May 18, 2011, 01:04:50 »
There is an impromptu gathering of car enthusiasts in Great Falls, Virginia every Saturday morning, weather permitting.  A couple of weeks ago I had a rare Saturday off and made the trip.  The variety of vehicles present was staggering, everything from a Shelby Daytona Coupe to an Isetta bubble car.  Including my 230SL, there were FOUR Pagodas present.  The others were a light blue 250SL and a silver and a dark green 280SL.  It seems to me that I might have seen the two 280s before, but I didn't see their owners, so I'm not sure.  I met the couple who own the 250SL as the event was breaking up at 9AM - they are not members of MBCA or any other club - just enjoy their car for the work of art that it is!
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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #630 on: May 20, 2011, 15:14:39 »
Zipping along in a small Italian town near Malpensa Airport last month, we passed a gas station with an big easel-type advertisement board standing at the entrance...on it was Carling, headed straight for us!   Mister Mister was going so quickly in the old 500SL, we didn't even get a chance to see what product it was advertising...
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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #631 on: May 23, 2011, 18:58:55 »
Hello,

In Belgium I spot a Pagoda about 5 times a year. Mostly parked in Brussels or Antwerp. I never met the drivers but I always leave the club's business card with my cell phone nr. No luck so far and I ran out of cards.

greetings,
Erik

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #632 on: May 24, 2011, 18:19:24 »
 Just got back from a 1400 mile roadtrip (not in my SL) through the southwest US (Arizona,New Mexico, Colorado and Utah). Never saw one. The last SL,s that I have seen were James Huber's and Dick Mentzer's when a they drove over to my place a few weeks ago. They are as rare as hen's teeth here

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #633 on: May 24, 2011, 19:20:31 »

Hello
i see a red 230er with hardtop two times in Cape Coral FL at my vacation there in November, while i was jogging.
I hope i can speak with him next time in November.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #634 on: May 27, 2011, 06:37:00 »
Spotted one in Copenhagen this morning - this one I had not seen before (there are 4-5 "regulars" in the neighborhood during summer), white 230 auto with hard top still on, looked a little tatty with faded tail light lenses, but sounded great :-)
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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #635 on: June 03, 2011, 17:56:17 »
Spotted a red 250 SL in parked at Majorstuen in Oslo this afternoon. Top down. A little bit dusty.

Kjell

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #636 on: June 06, 2011, 13:00:25 »
On Saturday I went to Home Depot in my 280SL.  On returning to my car, I noticed a note on my car seat that someone had wrote that he had a white '67 230SL, a question of where I have my car service, and a corresponding name and telephone number.  I called and we talked for a liitle bit and decided to meet the next day with both cars.  I called some other people in the area with the same cars to see if they wanted to meet also.  Over coffee at a local Starbucks, we meet, but only the two of us.  We talked for a while and I told him about this forum.   We decided to go for a drive but exhanging cars.  Both cars are Euro spec with a four speed.  It was the first time that I had drove another Pagoda.  My 280 SL had a recently re-done suspension with new shocks, upgraded sport and progressive springs and compensation springs, new king pins, a beefer sway bar, 15" alloy rims with sporter tires, etc.; however, I was surprised at how well the stock 230SL drove.  That makes 5 Pagodas in the local Parker/Castle Rock area, Colorado, that I know of.  Our local Pagoda club is growing.  3 are driveable and the other 2 are being worked on.

Danny
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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #637 on: June 08, 2011, 19:58:11 »
On Monday 6.6.11, travelling northbound on Foothill Expressway, between Main St and Arastraderdo in Los Altos, 11:45ish,  brown, with the top down...the weather was overcast and chilly. I was in my daily driver, not my SL...anybody here?

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #638 on: June 09, 2011, 02:19:29 »
Quite a few in the Seattle area.  There are three within a block of me.  I have talked to the owners but to date I do not think they have joined the forum.   Just recently went down a different street at the far other end of the neighborhood.  Saw a beautiful silver 1985 300td wagon sitting in front of a house.  Drove by to take another look at the wagon a few days later and a 1957(?) 300sl and a 190sl sat in the drive. Two days later a w113 and a set of matching bmw sports cars.  Yesterday a 280se cabriolet.  They are all silver and all mint.  Not sure if he's a collector or a broker but wow, all really beautiful.  In fact the house is painted a gray silver.  He must really like silver.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #639 on: June 12, 2011, 22:57:03 »
 Saw a white Hardtop with Black CA plates  on Hwy 49 today just a little north of "Dry Town". I gave a couple of toots on my horn (we were in our SL) and got a wave back. Only the 2nd or 3rd Pagoda that I have seen since we moved up here 11 years ago.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #640 on: June 13, 2011, 03:27:27 »
Spotted today .. white Pagoda top off Driving on Latrobe Rd near Folsom, CA... think it might have been Mr and Mrs 49er..
I was in my not so sporty Highlander.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #641 on: June 13, 2011, 15:21:33 »
Spotted today .. white Pagoda top off Driving on Latrobe Rd near Folsom, CA... think it might have been Mr and Mrs 49er..
I was in my not so sporty Highlander.
Hi Dick, We were on Latrobe heading west between 1:00 and 2:00pm heading down to El Dorado Hills. It must have been us. Small World for sure.

John
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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #642 on: June 14, 2011, 08:51:16 »
I spotted a very nice light blue with licence plate E-67250 in Oslo this morning on my way to work. The top was on in the rain.

Kjell

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #643 on: June 19, 2011, 22:24:42 »
Saw a white one today in Norwood NJ on county road.
Yesterday a navy one going on palisades parkway southbound.  I was driving mine northbound, I did honk.
 And Wednesday a silver one parked in the park off west side hwy & 96st.

Glad good weather is finally here to enjoy our toys.

happy father day to all fathers.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #644 on: June 30, 2011, 18:42:56 »
Again, (Monday and Today) saw the silver pagoda with the top down parked by the west side highway 96th street park. 
Is it anyone from the group here in NY?

dean

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #645 on: July 03, 2011, 05:00:25 »
Silver 280 sl on shelter island

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #646 on: July 06, 2011, 18:19:42 »
1.15 this afternoon approaching Rosslare Harbour, RHD white with dark hardtop, and that was after a whole week in UK where I ddn't spot a single one!

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #647 on: July 22, 2011, 08:39:01 »
I spotted a white one, top down, by Tyrifjorden yesterday afternoon on my way to Valdres in mine.

Kjell

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #648 on: July 22, 2011, 08:51:41 »
We should try to photograph the cars we see and post them here. I know that it is always a bit challenging to take a spur of the moment photo.

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Re: Poll - how often do you spot another Pagoda ?
« Reply #649 on: July 26, 2011, 17:21:51 »
Yesterday I spotted a white or off white with the top down on Deerfield Rd eastbound, in Deerfield, IL, USA.
No way I could take a picture. Pagodas are too fast to be captured on film,... eh I mean memory chips.
Is it anyone who is reading this?
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