Article in May Sports Car Market

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Worth looking for on the newsstand:

http://www.sportscarmarket.com/columns/profiles/german/6403-1963-mercedes-benz-230sl-pagoda

With this sale in Paris, and the sale of a 1968 280SL for $264,000 at RM Auctions in Monterey last August, we can state with confidence that the W113-chassis Mercedes-Benz 230, 250 and 280SLs have moved from desirable hobby cars to collectable classic automobiles.

No longer will we talk about these attractive roadsters as having the potential to increase significantly in value, as we did in these pages only a few years ago. Now the question is how to tell whether the car being presented is worth the going market rate - or is instead a fright pig that has been tarted up in hopes of getting a quick return on investment.

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It took a while.
When I bought my 1968 280sl in 2005, I had the feeling I was overpaying some, but so what. John Olsen's market letter told us pagodas would double in price in 5 years. Well, lots of intervening financial events and it didn't happen, but we are there now 

Gus