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Monterey 2021: The Pebble Beach Tour de Elegance

Roy Spencer
January 17, 2022
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Monterey 2021 The Pebble Beach Tour de Elegance After being deprived of the glorious Monterey pilgrimage for a full two years, the crowd that arrived last August seemed ecstatic to…

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One-offs: The Pininfarina 6.3

Roy Spencer
July 15, 2013
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Pininfarina’s 1969 300SEL 6.3 A lamentable one-off Hoping to duplicate the success of its attractive interpretation of a 1964 230SL, Pininfarina chose the ’60s greatest sedan, the 300SEL 6.3, for…

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One offs: The Pininfarina 300B

Roy Spencer
July 14, 2013
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The 1955 Pininfarina 300B Creating a one-off Adenauer Coupe The general ’50s era design ethos of Italian coachbuilder Pininfarnia and that of Mercedes-Benz could be politely described as divergent. Sober…

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Improving the Pagoda: Can it be done?

mike4ta
March 4, 2013
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Variations on the theme: Improving the Pagoda? March 2013 While the demonstrably Teutonic design of the new 230SL was indeed attractive and the mechanical specification reasonably compelling, over the years…

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The Pininfarina 230SL

Roy Spencer
November 29, 2009
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Italian Job Reinterpreting the 230SL November 2010 The first ”special version” of the Pagoda SL straightaway lost its pagoda roof and became something of a multicultural design experiment, a successful…

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