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kampala

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French Show - Pagoda
« on: April 15, 2017, 11:59:03 »
There is a French show where the host buys a vintage car, has a professional shop fully restore it, and sells it on to a dealer or sometimes at auction. 

In this episode, they do a Pagoda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf9BG0iulSM

There are twists to the story line where the professional shops that bid on restoring the car cannot inspect it, they can only see it in a shipping container etc.   

It's all in French and its an hour long.  However, for those that don't understand French, you can skip the dialogue heavy parts.   Also, in the middle, some time is spent on the 107 since it was featured in so many US TV shows and films. 


There is good footage on engine guts and air/fuel mixture.    Also they spend some time measuring cylinders and pistons etc to help validate if the car has 59K on the clock or 159K. 

Good rainy day watching (like this morning in Paris).


« Last Edit: April 15, 2017, 12:05:50 by kampala »
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Re: French Show - Pagoda
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2017, 21:55:35 »
As Warsaw is also rainy and cold, this was a perfect decorum for watching the video. Very impressing and entertaining indeed!

Nice result and this is true that the metallic anthracite grey (which was used I guess) is very attractive with the red interior. I saw once a burgundy interior, which looks in my view even better.

Now, let's open the usual forum for spotting the errors or inaccuracies. I saw four:
1. First of all, it seems that the body paint was chosen to make the car attractive, but not necessarily in line with what was the original one. This is at least what can be understood from the dialogues in the video.
2. The sunvisors shouldn't be in the red colour, but Ivory (in this case). As there is no hardtop, tough to say what was the headliner's colour, but Ivory is the right match.
3. The radio seems to come from older times (the knobs are not the late Becker ones), unless this is a Telefunken?
4. The hubcaps are painted in black. As there is no hardtop (which in this case should have been black), difficult to guess why they are black. I read once that at one point all the very late Pagodas had their hubcaps painted in black, but this info was not confirmed. However, when O bought my 1971 Pagoda (BTW also metallic dark anthracite grey) the hubcaps were black. Repainted them to match the body colour. 

Moreover, as there is no hardtop, this should impact the price. 103K Euro seems not bad at all.

Kampala: many thanks for sharing and making my evening so Pagoda focused :)
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Re: French Show - Pagoda
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2017, 10:47:42 »
Quote from: kampala
.../...There are twists to the story line.../...
There is something going on behind the curtains..   At the outset the car is fitted with a mixed up engine [it has M127 II (230SL) pump and exhaust manifold for instance].
Later on in the show, there is a proper M130 (280SL) engine installed
/Hans S