Mercedes-Benz 230 SL Pagoda / Vollrestauration

Description:

A car can speak to you in many ways, performance, build quality but something that can not be overlooked is the shape. One of the first things you are drawn to when you first look at a car is how it looks. This is something Mercedes knew full well when they put Paul Bracq as lead designer for the replacment of the legendary W121 SL.

Paul gav this beautiful roadster its iconic shape and the end resault is something that is more art than car and today it is widley known to be one of, if not the best looking cars of all time. Simple lines, clear link to its past and with classic roadster prorptions. The car was sold throughout the years with three engine options. This beeing a 230 model. But the car is more known for its nickname. A name that came about thanks to its odly shaped, concave roof design. Pagoda.

This example is as stated erlier a 230 model in Grey Blue Metallic paint with the classic color matched wheels with a polished lip, surrounded by a whitewall tire. The interior follows suit and is in a deep blue tone with leather covering the seats, doors and parts of the dashboard. Flooring is in a blue textile and parts of the exterior color shines through in the dashboard with details in wood. In front of the driver a thin ivory steeringwheel.

The car started life on the american west cost with recipts that can trace it back to Palm Springs showing signifcant maintinace. At the start of the 00's the car came to Germany and in 2004-2005 an extensive restauration of the car took place. Wich is of course well documented. 2005 the car came to Sweden where it lived a quiet life with limited milage. As such the car remains in a stunning shape that is hard to describe as anythingh other than that you get 'starstrck' when you see it.

The car comes with the hardtop that gave it its name, a folder with recipts and documentation, original booklet to the car and a USB drive showing the restauration.