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Billfold Wallet - 1965 Mercedes 230SL
Billfold Wallet - 1965 Mercedes 230SL
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From a 1965 230SL Pagoda — Walt Disney drove one. Fangio kept one. John Steed drove one in The Avengers. The first sports car designed around a proper safety cell.
This is a unique Billfold wallet made from the original interior of a 1965 Mercedes 230SL.
* Full-length bill compartments
* 4 credit card pockets with space for up to 20 cards
* Size: 11 cm x 8.5 (4 ½ inch x 3 ¼)
Each ZEITWORKS wallet is a unique creation, carrying the history and character of the car of the vehicle it once belonged to, making every design impossible to replicate.
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The Car Behind This Bag
1965 · 2.3L M127 fuel-injected six · Sindelfingen · W113 chassis · the "Pagoda
The W113 SL — the "Pagoda" — replaced both the 300SL Roadster and the 190SL in 1963 and split the difference between them. Paul Bracq and Béla Barényi drew the body. The hardtop's slightly concave roofline gave the car its nickname; the slope inward toward the centre echoed the silhouette of an Asian temple. The 230SL was the first of the series, with a 2.3-litre fuel-injected six producing 150 horsepower.
It was also the first sports car designed around a proper safety cell — Barényi's crumple-zone work made the W113 the structurally safest open car of its era. Walt Disney drove one. Juan Manuel Fangio kept one. The Avengers put John Steed in one in the late 1960s. In a single decade the Pagoda became shorthand for European tact in a way that the 300SL — for all its wins at Le Mans — never quite was.
Mercedes built 19,831 230SLs between 1963 and 1967 before replacing it with the larger-engined 250SL. Today the 230 is the purist's pick of the W113 run, and an original Sindelfingen-fitted leather or MB-Tex interior remains the surviving signature of how the car was meant to feel.