A morning that seemed like a dream turned out to be a nightmare for the owner of a home Mercedes Benz 230 SL Pagoda. The thing is that after removing the luxury Vintage cars from the workshop after a six-year restoration suffered one Serious accident on the Panamericana that destroyed him.
Specifically, the event occurred on Saturday morning at the intersection of this highway with the Camino del Buen Ayre. Obviously this is the vehicle in question lost a wheel after a mother came loose and was arrested in the fast lanes.
According to images that went viral on social networks, some cars managed to avoid the car despite it being so without signs and with a discarded bike a few meters away. However, a Peugeot 408 that was traveling at high speed and that attacked from behind to a collector car worth approx $180,000.
Due to the severity of the impact, the Pagoda crossed all lanes and stopped on the right side of the guardrail, but was struck by at least one other vehicle. A nearby motorcyclist was miraculously able to brake and avoid the collision. A truck did the same.
According to official information, there were no fatalities or injuries in this accident. “These are just irons,” qualified the alleged owner of the luxury car in an audio attributed to him on social networks, in which he said that he would soon take a trip to Punta del Este aboard this sports car, which, at the time of its launch in March 1963, represented a milestone in the development of Mercedes-Benz safety.
In the same document, the 68-year-old man said the unit had been attended to a specialist workshop by Martínez from the They came out to answer him public this Sunday.
“The car was in our facilities about a month ago and came from another workshop The I restored it six years ago. and they couldn’t get the injection system to work. We solved this problem, went out to test it, and this is what we noticed The car has many defects“both in the brakes and in the rear axle, the gearbox and the clutch,” a local representative began his defense.
He then explained that they had informed the owner of the vehicle of these problems and that he had replied that the car was “under warranty, that the repair would be done elsewhere and that he would have to take it to have it finished as it could never be tested.” According to his statement, he then asked her to “only devote herself to repairing the injection pump.”
“We do the job and The person takes it to where it was restored.. We are a workshop where we work as a family and don’t want to be splashed. They are accidents, they can happen to anyone, but we have nothing to do with them,” said the workshop representative.
The Pagoda was the most popular car in Argentine entertainment for years. Entertainment figures and athletes ran in the open air, Sandro was best known for his films.
He also had his fans all over the world; from Sofia Loren and John Lennon to Charlton Heston and John Travolta, among others.
The vehicle takes its name from the concave shape of its removable rigid roof (accessory designed by Paul Bracq) and rear window, reminiscent of oriental buildings mostly used as Buddhist temples.
The Pagoda, whose chassis designation was W113, was designed based on a monocoque structure. On a safety level, it was a pioneer among sports cars of the time because it incorporated energy absorption zones.
This means that in the event of an accident, both the front and rear areas had the opportunity to deform as the designers and engineers had programmed. In this way, the impact on passengers would be less noticeable.
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