Description
Supplied new by Mercedes Benz in Munich in 1969, our Metallic Red Pagoda didn’t stick around in its homeland for long, exported to the UK in 1973. The history file which accompanies this car has records showing ownership as far back as 1979 when the car was purchased by a Mr. Landau. Ownership was swapped to his wife in 2004, and it would be a total of 31 years before they parted with it in 2010. The purchaser would be a Mr. O’Dell who bought the car to use at his holiday home in Mallorca, which he did until 2015 when the car returned to the UK. Mr O’Dell retained the car for a further three years despite only adding a further ~300km to the odometer over the next few years.
The current keeper then took over custody of this Pagoda in 2019, specifically looking for a European spec, manual transmission for classic touring, selecting this car after a lengthy search. Given the limited use over the previous few years, he set about a detailed programme of improvements such as the aforementioned sills & floors, retrim and a full mechanical overhaul to ensure reliable running. All his work is well-documented in the history file along with plenty of invoices, old MOT certificates, correspondence, ownership records and more.
