Manuel Olivé Sans model 280SL - for sale

[JamesL]

http://www.gauntlettgallery.com/view_item.php?id=22

I saw this in the flesh the other day and it's amazing BUT I didn't ask the price (think A LOT)

http://www.olivesans.com/web/en/index.html

[Flyair]

  at first, I thought it was a real car, one of those that look and often are "better than new", so I started to imagine that it would be offered at 150,000 Euro or more….. then…. I realized how the proportions are between the car and the stones behind, so I almost felt relieved…

Good Xmas present though, and I believe this should easily go for…. 45-60 Euro .
Having seen the website of the model maker, I think that the model may actually compete with some cheaper real pagodas on the market
  

[JamesL]

On a LHD car, what side of the trunk does the spare wheel sit?

I always thought that on the early 230s it was "vertical" on the left in ALL cars and thereafter it was "horizontal" on the right in ALL cars. I ask as looking over this model on Saturday I am sure the spare was horizontal but on the drivers side.

Put me right off buying it, I can tell you

[IXLR8]

Also has the 230SL map pockets on the doors.

[stickandrudderman]

I prefer this:

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/scerri.htm

[Flyair]

James,

to my knowledge, the spare was always on the right side, regardless of the cat being RHD or LHD. If the model had it placed otherwise, then this would be a model to be shown in our Research&Development chapter
As for the pockets, the hard ones were offered on 230 an 250 I believe and at some points they switched to the soft map pockets on all 280 Pagodas. Somebody was once saying that the hard ones remained as an option but I doubt it.
 
It is very well explained in our Technical Manual http://www.sl113.org/wiki/Interior/DoorTrim


as for putting me right off buying it…. well… you can look at it as a lost opportunity to become an owner of a spotless model at the price of a rusty, full of flaws, badly restored full size Pagoda

[sully]

Hi James,
I have 1970 280sl that has hard pockets as far as i know my interior is original

Sully

[w113dude]

European cars do have hard pockets. in the US we decided that was not good enough for us so we put a bag with a rubber band instead.