I just read the latest Hemmings with the writeup on the Pagoda.
It talks about Gary Boigon from New York and his 280SL which was restored by Gernold at SL Tech in Maine.
It has a reference to this forum.
Its a great article and here's the link that is posted by Hemmings:
http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2011/10/01/hmn_feature1.htmlI'm sorry I missed that this was already talked about in another topic.