Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => General Discussion => Topic started by: twistedtree on April 01, 2025, 23:16:11
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Some of you may remember back in 2010 when I went shopping for a Pagoda and came home with 4 cars and 4 rooms of parts. My wife was not amused. Here's the original story https://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=12033.0
None of the cars worked, all were in various states of disassembly, but between the cars and the parts I figured I could get at least 2-3 cars out of it. The first one I got running was a '66 230SL that had been retrofit with a 280 motor. It was the most complete car, so that's where I started. After getting it running well and cleaned up, I sold it. The second was a '65 230SL that had a 250 motor in it. That one I sold untouched, and not running, just to reduce my project load. The third is a '64 230SL with a bunch of unique early features. I have kept this one and been using it the past several years. The last, a '70 280SL, just came to life a few weeks ago. I did a lot of mechanical work to bring it up to snuff, and it's now for sale.
So pretty soon the story of how one Pagoda turned into four, will conclude with how four Pagodas turned into one. The whole process took much longer than I figured, but the goal was to have a fun project and end up with at least one nice car. It certainly fulfilled that goal!
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Much looking forward to this final episode ...
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Much looking forward to this final episode ...
If only I can get an ad to post....
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Peter
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Garry
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I read the origin story of the 4 Pagodas and I was amused as well as impressed. Over 15 years elapsed!
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I read the origin story of the 4 Pagodas and I was amused as well as impressed. Over 15 years elapsed!
It's been a long time, embarrassingly long, but now I'm very close to distilling it down to one car that I will keep. Then it's time to start selling off parts. There are a LOT of parts. This car sat for 12 years with a pile of parts purchased and ready to install, so that's what I've been doing over the past few months. The best part is that after replacing the fuel tank and getting everything in the lines and filters cleaned up and flushed out, the car started right up.