Highlights
- Pretty 2.8L car with automatic gearbox
- Beautiful Blau Grun colour scheme with matching hard top and tan interior
- Extensively used for continental touring, reaching as far as Albania without issues
- Engine professionally rebuilt by Roger Edwards Motors 10,000 miles ago
- Comprehensively restored with respray, new sills, and sundry bodywork
- Tastefully upgraded with heated leather seats and working air conditioning
The Appeal
We keep saying that the W113 ‘Pagoda’ is a great classic touring car, and here is the proof. This vendor acquired this car in 2014 and has used it extensively for European touring, including as far as Albania. All, reportedly, without any issues.
That tells you something about the original engineering, as well as the quality of the restoration work that the car has received since arriving in the UK from Illinois 11 years ago. The body has been extensively rebuilt, including new sills, and finished in the very fetching colour of Blau Grun with a matching refurbished hard top. The mechanicals have been lavished with investment - we calculate in excess of £17,000 - and upgrades. The engine was rebuilt by specialist Roger Edwards 10,000 miles ago in 2017, and the rear axle was overhauled in 2022. The retrimmed tobacco tan interior features heated seats and sympathetic dashboard modifications to accommodate the seat switches and a Brantz rally meter. In 2024 there were repairs to the gearbox alongside other work.
Some W113S sit in dry storage collections, others get used. This car is definitely the latter. That means the buyer gets a car that has been properly ‘shaken down’ and is reliable. Despite the use, the body, paint and interior remain in very good order.
History and Paperwork
- First registered in 1969
- Imported from Illinois in 2014
- Single registered UK keeper
- Current keeper since October 2014
- Reported to have previously been owned by a family for 12 years
- They are reported to have acquired it from the Volo Car Museum in Illinois
- Extensive history file documenting maintenance and restoration work as shown
- Engine professionally rebuilt by Roger Edwards Motors in 2017 at a cost of £11,000
- Comprehensive respray with new sills and minor bodywork in 2014
- Invoices for the above work are shown in photos
- V5C in the current keeper’s name
- Registered as a Historic Vehicle
- USA Certificate of Title from Illinois
- Rear axle rebuilt in 2022
- Gearbox and other repairs in March 2024
The Condition
- Professionally resprayed in attractive and unusual Blau Grun
- Matching hardtop has been refurbished and presents well
- Bodywork presents well with flush panel fit
- Underside shown in photos
- Replacement black soft top in good condition as shown
- Paintwork presents well with only slight signs of use such as stone chips
- Chrome front and rear bumpers to USA spec with overriders
- Damage to the offside rear chrome light trim as shown
- Offside rear light is cracked in same area
- Fitted with chrome arch guards
- Federal marker lights fitted
- White banded tyres with body colour steel wheels
- Interior reupholstered in tobacco tan leather with the addition of heated seats
- Original Becker Europa FM radio with electric aerial retained and functioning
- Supplied with wind deflector
- Matching tan carpets with Mercedes-Benz overmats
- Adapted to fit Branz rally meter (included), heated seat switches and modern power supplies without damaging the dashboard
- Fitted with intermittent windscreen wipers and air horns
- Three-spoke wood-rimmed wheel
- Unused spare wheel present
The Mechanics
- 170bhp 2,778cc M130 fuel-injected straight-six engine
- £11,000 engine rebuild in 2017 by Roger Edwards
- 4spd automatic transmission with recent repairs shown in photos
- Upgraded with 123 electronic ignition
- Replacement air conditioning unit imported from America
- Wiring installed for dash cam
- Completed several European road trips reliably according to seller
- Large history file with extensive maintenance by specialists as shown
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