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2018 Market Review

Roy Spencer
January 31, 2019
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2018 Market Review What’s ahead The New Year always invites reflection on what transpired over the previous 12 months. I won’t bore you with last year’s personal scene so let’s…

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Star of Geneva: 230SL revealed to the press

Roy Spencer
November 11, 2016
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Star of Geneva The ‘Pagoda’ debuts March 1963 It was a rainy day. The slopes were still covered with snow. The Montblanc was shrouded in clouds. For seconds only the…

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1963: The Pagoda debuts

Roy Spencer
August 12, 2016
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230SL introduces the Pagoda Distinctive design offers new levels of sophistication The automotive legend of the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class is a never-ending story is. Whereas the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ introduced…

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De-constructing a Pagoda

Roy Spencer
March 23, 2013
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280SL Restoration Defining ‘Restored’ According to my trusty Webster’s New World Dictionary, “restore” means “to return to a former or normal state” and/or “to bring back to health.” The word…

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Video: Mercedes-Benz 230 SL. Out of love for the “Pagoda”

Roy Spencer
March 20, 2013
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Genesis of the Pagoda: Evolution of a design

Roy Spencer
March 4, 2013
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An SL for the swinging ’60s The Pagoda emerges The brief in 1959 was to replace the essentially irreplaceable 300SL and the charming but listless 190SL with a sports car…

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Legends of the Autobahn 2012

Roy Spencer
September 20, 2012
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Legends of the Autobahn Increased stature for 2012 What began a few years ago as a low key gathering for Mercedes, Porsche and BMW club members has blossomed into a…

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The Pininfarina 230SL

Roy Spencer
November 29, 2009
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Italian Job Reinterpreting the 230SL The first ”special version” of the Pagoda SL straightaway lost its pagoda roof and became something of a multicultural design experiment, a successful one in the…

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