Hi Stan,
Great story! To help our English speaking friends here I've used Google to translate the text. I know the translation is not perfect, still it is better then nothing
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http://www.mercedes-fans.de/fotostrecke/die-neckar-pagode-versenkt-versumpft-aber-nicht-vergessen-eine-sicherlich-einzigartige-mercedes-benz-pagode-230-sl.1313.20.htmlNote to Reader ... some of the text below may not have translated perfect ...
The Mercedes-fan who had come to the big Mercedes meetings to Tempelhof, only looked incredulous, then he slapped her hand over her mouth in horror, last only made his bewilderment wide, his eyes pulled himself a rusted and a perforated Something along, that is its actually once been a pagoda! The Neckar pagoda, there sunk more than 30 years ago, only to be discovered by accident and recovered again in the summer of 2006.
Pagodas, there was the Mercedes-meetings Mercedes-Benz & Friends many, but none like this. Hinge Sets or laid out in a hangar where there were several clubs rather, inter alia, and the Mercedes-Benz SL Pagoda Club. A strange crumpled and perforated sheet pile moved since the bystanders in their spell. A closer look confirmed: that is, or rather was once a pagoda. A white obviously. The view of the trunk lid leads to a surprising result: there is indeed still the nameplate. A 230 SL sank about 30 years ago in the waters of the river Neckar. And what was there to see in Berlin, whose remains were.
And these are depending on the viewing angle just pathetic pathetic, or fascinating or even surprisingly well preserved in parts. We e.g. the tailpipes of the exhaust or the filler cap. Even the bumpers look no worse than many a barn find from (Where you known, often has the feeling there, the Finder has found his barn find more in a pond!) But neither the sheet metal parts, yet the technology can be usefully continue to use at another pagoda , Thus, the substances in the Neckar also there was and is well known not only water in it eaten through the cylinder head cover and expose the spur gear. The discs are completely gone.
The author reminded the pagoda a bit to at the 2007 excavated Plymouth Belvedere that was verbuddelt the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma in a concrete sarcophagus in Tulsa and to the horror of all because then it penetrated air and ground water in the concrete as rusted chrome body What emerged was. But here the case was indeed something stored differently. So why do you raise such a vehicle? "We give no Pagoda!" Explains the friendly club-mate at the stand of the club, but can on the links not say more than, since a lot of mud was drinne! and we have since hung up a piece of paper! Well, that's quite something and on the "list" and the reference to the technology-speakers of the club is then added.
Michael Lenhardt, his sign said technology officer of the Mercedes-Benz SL Club pagoda is the remarkable scrap heap, however, already explained very plausible: "You can restore any car And it has ever expressed anyone is interested, just that our dead in the water. do. But then this pagoda is a pagoda like any other and we really do not want. So it remains only once as it is. Uniquely, it is completely unclear, in fact, and their origin.
And that in itself but exciting enough. Because why ended the last ride of the then almost new pagoda in the Neckar? Although the chassis number was identified, it was not possible and the police to resolve this puzzle. And today, the reasons for it in the dark. Has something to do with the sunglasses that still found himself in the foot well?
The unresolved history inspired the Mercedes-Benz SL Pagoda Club some time ago, his readers to motivate for the club's own magazine stories to send, as the story itself could have happened then.
The pagoda friends were creative: A relationship drama? An insurance fraud? Or just a little embarrassing but carelessness. But the truth could not figure out Michael Lenhardt and his club mates today.
Is certain is that it was the hand brake is released and the second gear was engaged! Can you remember a rainy Sunday evening in which are wrong turn and suddenly got wet feet? There was not even a noticeable event would long ago to remember you are just going dark? Or not lacks but one of your beautiful stars in the garage? Who knows whether this puzzle of Neckar Pagoda will ever be solved?
