Number of Pagoda's registered in the USA?

[Starchild]

Curious if anyone would know the total number of the W113's now registered in the USA?  Would this be a statistic easily found? From what I have read, about half the production of the W113 were shipped to the USA. Would 50% of the number of Pagoda's still in existence  today, reside in the USA?

An entertaining statistic that enquiring minds would like to know.

[rwmastel]

Curious if anyone would know the total number of the W113's now registered in the USA?  No.
Would this be a statistic easily found?  No.
From what I have read, about half the production of the W113 were shipped to the USA. Would 50% of the number of Pagoda's still in existence  today, reside in the USA?  They get purchased and shipped all over the world, so those ratios are always changing.

Not an uncommon question from a new owner.  I don't think these things can accurately be documented because of privacy laws regarding car registrations and so forth.

[Rothko]

More than 5, definitely.

[H. Keith Henry]

Interesting discussion about this on the forum in 2005.

https://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=3564.0

[Cees Klumper]

15,983 as of yesterday

 

Ok, so now what?

 

[Starchild]

Hmmmm, if your number of 15, 983 is fairly accurate + or - ten percent that would make half the production of Pagoda's that still calls United States home.  See a handful on the road here in south Fl. They pop at a car show or two.

[ScouseJames]

Here in the UK we have a website called How Many Left? 

You type in the make and model and it gives you the numbers taxed (so allowed to be driven on the road) v those on SORN (Statutory Off-Road Notification - when people store their cars for a period of time, usually October-March.  Although personally I don't do/understand this).

These are the numbers for my model, the 230SL  https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/vehicle/mercedes_230_sl#tax. 

Of course, it all depends on how the car is recorded in the database so I couldn't guess about the accuracy.

[Vel98]

An interesting resource, it’s a pity that it’s only available in UK.

[rwmastel]

See a handful on the road here in south Fl. They pop at a car show or two.

We have a place just for those occasions.
https://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?board=28.0

[sandcrab59]

Two of mine are not registered. So you can add that to CEES number.

[rwmastel]

Cees (or CEES?),

I assume your number was facetious?

[Cees Klumper]

Yes it was Rodd!
Tongue in cheek.

[sandcrab59]

I never noticed the spelling of Cees for over 20 years.
Tom

[mdsalemi]

Yes it was Rodd!
Tongue in cheek.

Hoping I'm not the only one who understood that...particularly when you then said, "Ok, so now what?"

Actually data like this IS published now and then. Certain media outlets can get that information from state registries. There's no violation of any privacy rules when they cull the database to find out how many vehicles of a certain make, model, year, etc. are registered. You won't get names without a court order, but names are not what anybody wants...

...with the exception of some people who want to track down the original owner of their car.

All the insurance companies share information on some database(s) as well, so the information may be available to those at a certain level in the insurance industry.  Some random owner of a vehicle looking for information isn't going to get very far.

[AdelaidePagoda]

Does anyone know how many are registered in Australia?

[MikeSimon]

....and then there are cars in the U.S. that aren't even registered - like mine. Brought over from Germany, deleted it over there and never registered it here (yet) .

[Vander]

....and then there are cars in the U.S. that aren't even registered - like mine. Brought over from Germany, deleted it over there and never registered it here (yet) .

I believe there are A LOT of unregistered Pagodas. I know of a dozen non-registered Pagodas just here in Columbus.

[mdsalemi]

As Cees pointed out, as a joke, not certain exactly why this information is of interest to anyone or what they would do with it if accurate. As he put it, "Now what?"

There's a good reason why so many are not registered. They are not drivable nor in a condition to be drivable. Many never will be. The cost of restoration is often prohibitive today, and in the minds of many always was: that's how MY car got to the awful condition it was in, before I had it restored, and why there are so many basket cases hidden away in barns and garages all over the place. People didn't want to spend the money THEN to fix them, and they probably don't want to spend the money today to fix them.  So they sit.