Every year on January 1 the German Licence Office (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt) in Flensburg, Germany issues from the number of 230, 250 and 280 SL cars that have been registered.
Unfortunately the number does not represent all Pagoda's since cars that return from other parts of the world to Germany do not receive a Key Number ( Typ-Schlüsselnummer ) instead of the Key Number's 334, 345 and 380 cars returning to Germany are assigned a Key Number "000"
However, there are a number of Pagoda's in Germany that are registered with a red 06 or 07 ID number. Still all considered it is interesting to know that in Germany over 4,000 Pagoda's are registers.
How high the actual number of Pagoda's is in Germany, unfortunately that is not known.
I've translated this in brief format from German to English. The data and German write up was shared from the Facebook Page of Mercedes-Benz SL-Club Pagode.
Table Translation
Schl. Nr. = Key-number
Bestand an zugelassenen W113 Fahrzeugen = Number of Registered W113 Vehicles
Summe = Amount
Daten ab 2008 vom KBA I Keinerlei Gew+/- hr vor diesem Zeitpunkt = No Data prior to 2008 from KBA
Actualisiert am 13.08.2016 = Date Issued Aug. 13, 2016
Footnote: I read some time ago that more and more Pagoda’s are finding there way back to Germany, I wonder why that is. In fact I communicated with two members (one in Germany and another here in Canada) about a Pagoda that was originally purchased by the father of the fellow in Germany then sold to the fellow in Canada. A few years ago the fellow in Canada sold the car back to the son in Germany. I tried to write a story for our Pagoda World magazine since I thought it was a remarkable story. Unfortunately both Gentlemen gave up on the idea (I never heard back from the Canadian owner [he went down to Florida last year for his winter stay] that sold the car back to the son of the original owner in Germany).
I also wonder how many Pagoda’s there are on the road in North America … I guess we will never know.
Happy Motoring to you All
Dieter
