I finished a restoration on pagoda before buying my coupe. Actually, I couldn't find a good coupe and the 113 was on my list of cars I wanted to own. It was a good one, it had all the matching panel numbers, the correct factory spot welds under the hood, and the inner headlight body strikes that always get removed or mudded over. It also had all the paperwork and the original window sticker from Mercedes of Beverly Hills. Before that I had a 69 Camaro RS convertible. When one of my buddies first saw the 280SL he said, "you just went from every high schooler's dream car to every old man's dream car".
It was beautiful but I really didn't like it. It drove like a truck compared to my coupe. I remember thinking that my company car (Ford Taurus) was more fun to drive. It would be worth a small fortune now but I'm glad I sold it and found my e9 20 years ago.