The beauties of Southern Bohemia

[Miloslav Maun]

Last weekend me and my brother took my newly rebuilt pagoda on a trip to Southern Bohemia. Here are some of the photos we took.

P.S. The full story about the restoration can be found here:
Project Pagoda: http://www.pagoda.un.cz/project-en.htm

[glennard]

Great presentation!

[RobMarks]

Beautiful!!!!!  Great Pictures

Where's Bohemia?  Gotta dust off the old atlas

RobMarks

[Mike Hughes]

quote:Originally posted by RobMarks

Beautiful!!!!!  Great Pictures

Where's Bohemia?  Gotta dust off the old atlas

RobMarks

Hint:  Better not use an old atlas.  It probably won't show the Czech Republic and Slovakia as separate countries yet!

- Mike Hughes  -ô¿ô-
  1966 230SL Auto P/S
  Havanna Brown (408)
  Light Beige (181)
  Cream M-B Tex (121)

[114015]

... and ah no!
It's not primarily a neighborhood in downtown Manhattan, its part of the Czech Republic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia

Bohemia (Czech: Èechy[1]; German: Böhmen (help·info)) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Czech Republic. In its broader meaning, it is often used to refer to the whole country, including Moravia and Czech Silesia[2] especially in historical contexts.

It has an area of 52,750 km² and 6.25 million of the Czech Republic's 10.3 million inhabitants. Bohemia is bordered by Germany to the southwest, west, and northwest, Poland to the north-east, the Czech historical region of Moravia to the east, and Austria to the south. Bohemia's borders are marked with mountain ranges such as the Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains, and the Giant Mountains within the Sudeten mountains.




So long,



Achim
(Magdeburg, Germany)

[Peter van Es]

Muf,

your car looks great and the website is very informative too. Also, excellent quality photo's.

Peter

Check out http://bali.esweb.nl for photographs of classic car events and my 1970 280SL

[Jonny B]

Very nice! I also enjoyed looking through the very detailed shots on the web page link.

Well done!

Jonny B
1967 250SL Auto

[Michael Grommet]

I'll try this again.... love your photos... I also have a white 65 that just came out of paint but yours is a nicer car.  I have blue interior.  what town square is that?.. I've been through bohemia.  My wife lectured in Brno, then we drove through bohemia to Prague. Stayed in Ceske Krumlov... heard is got destroyed in flood.  
Regards,
Mike in California

quote:Originally posted by Muf

Last weekend me and my brother took my newly rebuilt pagoda on a trip to Southern Bohemia. Here are some of the photos we took.

P.S. The full story about the restoration can be found here:
Project Pagoda: http://www.pagoda.un.cz/project-en.htm

65 230sl
54 Kaiser Darrin (rare)
61 scout
80 300 D
Honda/Toyota/F250D
77 Beechcraft Sundowner

[Miloslav Maun]

Dear Michael,

Do not worry, Cesky Krumlov was not destroyed. It was heavily affected by the floods in 2002 but it soon regained its former beauty. I doubt you would notice any trace nowadays. Only some places show you how high the water level was. It is one of the places listed in the UNESCO world heritage list and lots of money was invested here after the disaster.

But the bridge and the square you can see on the photos is in the city of Pisek. The stone bridge is actually the oldest bridge in the Czech Republic, even older than the famous Charles Bridge of Prague.

BTW. Thank you for your kind words about my car. But is is still not perfect, some final touches are necessary. I will go on with my effort.

[J. Huber]

Hi Muf. Beautiful photos! I think our cars look so good with the classic European backdrops. I was also impressed with the great restoration photos... My car would probably need about the same attention as yours. Just curious -- do you think it is relatively cheaper to restore a Pagoda in The Czech Rep then the USA? I recall another restoration from (Poland I believe) that was. Heck, if I could save thousands of dollars -- I might send my car on a little Study Abroad program!

James
63 230SL

[Miloslav Maun]

Yes, Defnitely it costs less over here (even with the low dollar exchange rate). But when I bought the car in the USA, I had to pay duty and VAT. I am not sure how this would work when you just bring it here for a few months and then transport it back.
The shipping was not so expensive, 1000 USD I think plus some handling fees in the destination harbour, in total not exceeding 1500.

[J. Huber]

Ahoj! Muf. Dekuji!

(Had to look that up  :oops: )

James
63 230SL