Author Topic: another barn find w113 (Read 50358 times)

guyke · « **on:** October 07, 2016, 10:21:53 »

after 5 jears of searching after a pagode i maneged to finaly find one in the usa , in verry good condition , its a 230 4 speed manual from 64
the old girl is gona be shiped soon .
i wil first make the mechanic in order so i can drive it in the condition how i found it , when i have all the necessary parts i will do a complete restauration , there is no hurry
she was standing the last 10 jears in the garage on the picture , poor girl ( no w113 deserve to stand still so long ) )-:

Pinder · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2016, 12:23:55 »

Very nice. Congratulations from New Jersey. is it Ivory color?

Jonny B · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2016, 16:26:39 »

Good luck with your Pagoda adventure. Please keep us posted on the progress. And be sure to take lots of photos.

guyke · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2016, 17:27:29 »

the first morning sun my beauty sees after 10 jears of darkness
there is an after life 4 each pagode in the hands of the real w113 lovers

guyke · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2016, 17:40:10 »

she sufferd from californian sun burn , when the car wil be in belguim i wil see her 4 the first time , i buyd the car by judging the pictures , she is complete thats is important for me , so that i dond have to purchase to many parts , mechanical is no problem we have a workshop and restaured already more than 10 cars , the last was a fiat 500 , porsche 914 , mb w111 coupe , mb w108 4 doors , etc...

guyke · « **Reply #5 on:** October 10, 2016, 07:12:45 »

i wil need a door pannel

guyke · « **Reply #6 on:** October 10, 2016, 07:18:38 »

all the chrome is on the car and is in good condition , its a good solid base 4 a restauration ,
im glad i found this sl group , did some reading already , and see that the pagoda is becomming rare to find 4 a good price ( in good condition).

guyke · « **Reply #7 on:** October 10, 2016, 19:22:37 »

this is our last work in progress

guyke · « **Reply #8 on:** October 14, 2016, 11:36:55 »

there she goes to the container company that will ship her back to europe
the story was that it was a pilot ho bougt the car originaly in europe , and when he came live in the usa he took the car whit him and never changed the lights and the speedometer , so everything is europeean on the car and still original , even the paint was never redonne , these are the last pictures i have , the next time i will se her in real and hopefully fall in love :-)

guyke · « **Reply #9 on:** October 17, 2016, 06:57:43 »

these are some project we done in the past , always body off full restauration
we still have the coupe benz , the fiat 500 and the 4 doors benz that is currently in reatauration
next project will be the pagoda

guyke · « **Reply #10 on:** October 17, 2016, 06:58:28 »

some more pics

guyke · « **Reply #11 on:** October 17, 2016, 07:09:09 »

we always have funn when whe find some new project , the fiat was a verry smal car to restaure but many work , and the tractor was just 4 funn

guyke · « **Reply #12 on:** October 17, 2016, 14:48:13 »

the mechanic virus was givin us by our father ho had a car work shop , so at our early jears we were already working in our fathers shop , building diesel benz for the export to africa , we builded a kit and maneged to changed from petrol cars to diesel cars in only 5 hours, we restaured countles w114/8 sadly no pics from al these

i hope the pagoda gets quickly here so that i can take a look for the first time what needs to be done at the car

guyke · « **Reply #13 on:** October 20, 2016, 15:08:28 »

today finished the engine from the w108 4doors 2.8 carburator
it lookt pretty good to me

covered it up so it can go to sleep

guyke · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2016, 18:49:38 »

i must admit i felt already in love whit a mercedes oldtimer convertible , and i bougt one at my 20 jear old i had it 4 jears long and had a lot of fun whit it
the first thing i did was driving the 2.2 antil i died , and then i build a 3.0 turbo diesel in it , kept the stock gearbox
it consumed 20 liters petrol in 100 kmters it and it made me poor

after the conversion i could drive on red diesel ( gasoline for home )

that costst in that time almoast nothing , so i drove it daily , not at night because we were not permitted in belguim
sometimes i mis the old 404 unimog

Iconic · « **Reply #15 on:** October 20, 2016, 21:28:23 »

Thanks for sharing your stories and pictures.
I look forward to watching the restoration of you new Pagoda.
That 914 sure is nice !!
Mark

kampala · « **Reply #16 on:** October 25, 2016, 13:59:08 »

The side-ways Fiat is great. Your work looks really good.

guyke · « **Reply #17 on:** December 02, 2016, 18:57:46 »

today the w108 arrived back home from the paintshop , so we can start to rebuild it piece by piece , starting whit the engine and the automatic gearbox , and i had an email from the shipping company that the w113 arrived in rotterdam , in 3 days normaly she should be arrived at its final location where the documents and the customs clearance wil be arranged , i hpe to have the car in my garage before new jear , nice present 4 me

guyke · « **Reply #18 on:** December 04, 2016, 18:52:29 »

found a work manual for the pagoda , i hope i wont need it , but jou never know
and started at rebuilding the w108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jG5wWl--zw
picture from the w108 let me think a little bit at this piece of movie ( enjoy it )

guyke · « **Reply #19 on:** December 13, 2016, 20:21:46 »

today i received a verry good mail from the shipping company , the sl has arrived at its final location , the customs clearance is ok , the car is ready to get picked up and to come home whit me , thursday i wil go to the the netherlands , me so verry happy

guyke · « **Reply #20 on:** December 14, 2016, 07:48:18 »

and i found some books that will go in to the pagoda ,

guyke · « **Reply #21 on:** December 15, 2016, 11:56:35 »

Almoast home

guyke · « **Reply #22 on:** December 15, 2016, 17:47:15 »

today i went to the netherlands to pick up the pagoda , everything went well , customs clearence was ok , i pays the import duty and took the car home
once at home a fast inspection was done untherneed the car and we try to start the engine , sadly the electronic pump was dead , so we sprayed gasoline directly in the inlet manifold and the engine crancked up for 5 seconds , ok thats a releave that the engine is loose and it turned out there is no damage to it ,
the brakes from the car were restaured , there was 2 new brake pumps on the front and 2 new in the back ,
there is not even a single dent in de body work , ok the paint is cracked from the californian heat , but the body is verry solid ,
and now the minus points , the floor panels are rotten by rust , not the support beams , only the flat thin pannels , the electric fuel pump is dead , and there are some dents in the chrome bumpers , the interior is badly damaged but complete , by badly damaged i mean , the leader is cracked or rot , the door panels are damaged ,

guyke · « **Reply #23 on:** December 15, 2016, 17:53:46 »

In my garage

Iconic · « **Reply #24 on:** December 15, 2016, 20:23:28 »

Congratulations !!!
And thank you for letting us share in your adventure.

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