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UJJ

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Pagoda Ad
« on: June 05, 2013, 13:34:35 »
I do not know how many of you visit other Pagoda Club websites.
I frequently visit the German Pagodetreff site, since I speak the language (helps) ;)
Look what I found there...

Compared to modern ads quite a pleasure to watch IMO.
The ad is 14 min. long (not to worry it is in English)  ;D and the driver looks like my college professor did. ::) :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIuo82fubVA

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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2013, 14:11:25 »
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.../...Look what I found there...
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See:
http://www.sl113.org/Video.html
The college professor lookalike is a (at the time) famous F1 and Touring pro driver, Karl Kling.  In the sixties he became Stable manager for M-B rally efforts
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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2013, 19:13:15 »
I like how he undid the levers for the hard top just by reaching backwards - I tried that and put my back out.
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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2013, 21:56:06 »
another great video, there are so many!, couple of things I noticed were something at 3 mins 55s, below the bumper looked like a valance/spoiler of some kind?, also the round horn ring.

thanks for sharing Urban

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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2013, 22:29:34 »
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.../... couple of things I noticed were something at 3 mins 55s, below the bumper looked like a valance/spoiler of some kind?, also the round horn ring.
The car in the video is an early pre-production 230SL. See reply No 5 in this Forum posting:
http://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=9675.msg67206#msg67206
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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2013, 00:33:24 »
Google  ... Top gear Season 3 Episode 8 to see another slick video from Jerremey Clarkson ... He called our car a COOL CAR in this 2003 Episode :)
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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2013, 14:58:29 »
Indeed, lots of small details about the car are different. But one other thing I noticed was the mention of "Pagoda-like roof" when they were talking about the sight lines and ingress/egress. I take it this ad was done in late 1962??
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Re: Pagoda Ad
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2013, 17:24:28 »
On this site, there has been much discussion of MB luggage for the SL.  The video shows lots of info about the luggage that would facilitate reproduction.  I never noticed it before.
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