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Price: SOLD
Year: 1970
Mileage: 69000km
Engine: 2.8L I6
Transmission: Automatic
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The 280SL simply enamours. Driving one in today’s age makes you wonder where car makers went wrong. It’s a sweetheart, an evocative throwback to simpler times. What is the California? It is a 280SL with a folding rear seat in the place of where the soft top would normally be with the hardtop as your option to cover the cabin. A relatively rare configuration as only around 10% of Pagodas were sold as California's and even less were specified in right hand drive. You can probably guess where the majority of these cars were allocated when new and where you still find most them today.
This Rare 1970 Mercedes 280 SL Pagoda Roaster California Special is a very original car with solid metal throughout, original seats and carpet; low mileage, numbers-matching engine and transmission. runs and drives superb. The previous two long term owners are well known to us and the car was always garaged and meticulously cared for. The car presents authentically and shows a top down life well enjoyed . The interior could benefit from a new wardrobe although most purists would relish the authenticity.
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1970 Mercedes 280 SL
The 280SL simply enamours. Driving one in today’s age makes you wonder where car makers went wrong. It’s a sweetheart, an evocative throwback to simpler times. What is the California? It is a 280SL with a folding rear seat in the place of where the soft top would normally be with the hardtop as your option to cover the cabin. A relatively rare configuration as only around 10% of Pagodas were sold as California’s and even less were specified in right hand drive. You can probably guess where the majority of these cars were allocated when new and where you still find most them today.
This Rare 1970 Mercedes 280 SL Pagoda Roaster California Special is a very original car with solid metal throughout, original seats and carpet; low mileage, numbers-matching engine and transmission. runs and drives superb. The previous two long term owners are well known to us and the car was always garaged and meticulously cared for. The car presents authentically and shows a top down life well enjoyed . The interior could benefit from a new wardrobe although most purists would relish the authenticity.
The Mercedes-Benz W 113 is a two-seat roadster/coupé, introduced at the 1963 Geneva Motor Show, and produced from 1963 through 1971. It replaced both the 300 SL (W 198) and the 190 SL (W 121 BII). Of the 48,912 W 113 SLs produced, 19,440 were sold in the US.
The W 113 SL was developed under the auspices of Mercedes-Benz Technical Director Fritz Nallinger, Chief Engineer Rudolf Uhlenhaut and Head of Styling Friedrich Geiger. The lead designers were Paul Bracq and Béla Barényi, who created its patented, slightly concave hardtop, which inspired the “Pagoda” nickname.
All models were equipped with an inline-six cylinder engine with multi-port fuel injection. The bonnet, boot lid, door skins and tonneau cover were made of aluminum to reduce weight. The comparatively short and wide chassis, combined with an excellent suspension, powerful brakes and radial tires gave the W 113 superb handling for its time.[citation needed] The styling of the front, with its characteristic upright Bosch “fishbowl” headlights and simple chrome grille, dominated by the large three-pointed star in the nose panel, paid homage to the 300 SL roadster.
W 113 SLs were typically configured as a “Coupe/Roadster” with a soft-top and an optional removable hardtop. A 2+2 was introduced with the 250 SL “California Coupe,” which had a fold-down rear bench seat instead of the soft-top.