Lost Key Found

[hands_aus]

I was looking at the inside of the car with my torch checking the dash chrome because the local MB Show and Shine / Concours is coming up.

I happened to shine the light down the RHS heater dash vent opening and sitting in there very nicely was a key which I duly fished out with a piece of copper wire.

It turns out to be an original 'glove box, boot lock key'.
I checked the numbers on it against the data card and then tried it in the locks.
They are definitley original locks and match the key perfectly.

It has probably been there for 38 years. It certainly hasn't been used.

I hope that eliminates one of my hidden rattles.

Bob Smith (Brisbane,Australia)
RHD,1967 early 250 SL, auto

[J. Huber]

Bob, that is cool.

Now, I didn't see any dream analysts in our Profession thread, but I have had a recurring dream that I find a little storage area in my car -- and just as I peer in to see if there's a toolkit, etc -- I wake up. Yours is almost like my dream come true...

James
63 230SL

[Naj ✝︎]

James,
Have you looked in-between the front wing panels (behind the left kick panel?
I found a Stahlwille phillips screw driver there on my 280 when I cut a hole in the inner panel for a radio speaker. Been there since Feb '68 I guess.

naj

65 230SL
68 280SL

[J. Huber]

Yes Naj, I have. I've peeked in a lot of nooks and crannies. And what I found was more like a nightmare than a dream... :twisted:

James
63 230SL

[CraigD]

While it's not an original key or a German tool, I found a 1970 Swiss franc under the seat in my '70 Pagoda (which was delivered to Geneva) while repairing the heater core last winter.

Craig

[Douglas]

Have you noticed that the seats in a W 113 suck more change out of your pockets  than any other car? The angle of the seats seems to lend themselves to it. I guess that means even sitting in a Pagoda is expensive......

(It's a phenomenon that would work nicely on an epsiode of "Columbo." Incriminating evidence would slide out from the suspect's pocket onto the floor of his Pagoda under the seat and only Columbo/Peter Falk would know this obscure tendency in an old SL.)


Douglas Kim
New York, NY
280 SL #016220

[waltklatt]

The proverbial black hole of the Pagodas has been discovered!
Well not the same car but the same concept, several restorers of the Ferrari fame have dismantled several cars for restoration and have found old beer bottles, cigar/cigarette stubs, knick knack trash, magazines and whatnot.  
Does this mean we have to tear our cars apart in search for some tokens of the past?  Uh, oh I think I can hear the drills, grinders whirring in the distance.
On a serious note, I've found foreign coins, mouse nests and an old big brass key inside the heaterbox of my 1965 230SL partscar.
Walter

[Cees Klumper]

Whenever I round a sharp corner at speed, I can hear 'something' in my dash, right in front of me, roll back and forth. Like a small round marble. Every time I am back there to do something I try to get at 'it' but, so far, without luck.

Cees ("Case") Klumper in Amsterdam
'69 white 280 SL automatic

[hands_aus]

Hey cees,

Same thing on my car. I hope finding the key might have eliminated that noise.
I am going to take the car out this morning (weather permitting) to find out.

Any excuse to go for a drive.

Bob Smith (Brisbane,Australia)
RHD,1967 early 250 SL, auto

[gwuisman]

I had the same kind of sound like Cees somewhere. At the end it appeared to be a quarter of a dollar rolling in a rail of the passenger seat. The ultimate evidence that I have a US Pagoda.

Gerard Wuisman
1970 280sl