That's DEFINITELY a Benz worth collecting. Nice find!

Thankee! I'm psyched. :) I'm thinking British Racing Green for the repaint... ;)

WOOT! that gets my vote!

Either that or Mercedes racing silver. :)

I was wondering when you were going to get another one. Going to go with the original color paint? I always thought that those looked good in a champegne color, a little easier on hot days to get into but still keeping the more luxury style coloration.
Then all we need is 22 inch spinners, a pooty duck fart muffler, an F1 style spoiler... oh wait, you have self respect and class. A nice paint job should be just right to keep the car in the spirit it's intended for!

Champagne...It's a thought. I was thinking British racing green, as the interior is the same reddish brown coior. And I MAY look into a factory whale tail spoiler. :D

Then perhaps throw this bad boy in there.
http://bigevilogre.deviantart.com/art/Z-8-85799037

(snort) Why not? The US spec 4.5 liter V-8 ain't much of a fireball...

I actually have encountered a W116 450S witha F1 spoiler on it's deck lid. the car was painted in a glowing metallic red, which did nothign to easen the pain caused by a spoiler almost as high as the roof...

Yeah, that's generally what people do when they don't know squat about earodynamics. It's like the Bugatti Veron when it needs to hit 255 MPH the whole thing hunkers down to the ground with hydraulic (or airbag, not sure) suspension and it's spoiler sucks down flat against the body. It's just kids who watched too much Fast and the Furious.

Schweet ride and definitely worth putting some work into, unlike my Benz that is now covered in hail damage craters and worth zilch.

Odear. Ain't beater Benzes fun?

She is a beauty...

Thankee! Definite potential for a fun weekend ride. :D

Very classy old Merc! I've been looking at a '71 220D myself, to convert to biodiesel (WVO).

Those old 450s really had the presence and look one could only associate with Mercedes. Love to get my paws on the SEC (convertible) version.

I had a 68 220D, myself. A fun old car, in more ways than one:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/348528/

Very cool!

Nice.

Thankee! :D

Yer welcome.

I heard a story about a guy who bought one of these Mercedes in the wintertime, had it a week and spun out, wrapping it around a tree. I went to visit him in the hospital, and he was chipper, all things considered. about the car, he just shrugged, and said that was the way the cookie crumbled. I smiled and said that was the way the Mercedes Bends.

(grinning, ducking, and running like heck)

Very nice!

i think it looks good as a dark black car and all thats just me

then again i got an old 83 black chevy im trying to fix up but its probably not worth it as its fuse box needs repair and all the dash lights are shorted XD

any way pretty cool lookin benz

Well, right now it's a ratty dark brown. Yick.

Gloss black is tough to maintain, just like white is...

just gotta wash it a lil more and keep it garage kept thats about it lol

Heh. I may paint it silver, the traditional Mercedes racing color...

that sounds cool too

I know! Let's get something wild like a big nasty turbocharger and have sucking fresh air right from behind the Mercedes grille emblem! Polish it nicely so people can kinda see behind the grille to see that beastly bad boy. Then we'll put an intercooler flat under the hood with some louvers or an aviation concave scoop on the hood itself! Well slam that sucker down to about 1 inch off the ground with airbags and put a spitter on the front to redirect air around it so you have low pressure under the car. Throw some 20 inch rims all around and a widebody kit with brake cooling ducts and well go with four piston calipers all around... yeah... that would be bitchin...

You forgot the multiwing tail and neon floorpan lights. :P

I think I'll stick to maybe Ansen Sprints and a factory whaletail spoiler, if anything. :)

Say, how close are you to Arkansas, anyhow? I may need to pay you a visit... :)

Oh, well. ROAD TRIP!

Oh, well. You get to work on Mercedeses for a living. You're doing better than most of us... ;)

Heh. Well, I've owned beater Benzes off and on for the past decade or so, though I've been on hiatus since my last 114 put a rod through the block...

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1006045/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1008270/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1034765/

And of course, my 116 came to a sad end as well...

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1035424/

So, this 107 is my midlife crisis machine. :)

Ectually, most of that has already been done by the previous owner. Plus the tranny's been freshened up. So, cosmetics and A/C are the main items at this point...

She's already been resprayed Astral Silver, BTW. New interior is in the process of being fabricated. ;)

Not the B2 valve, I trust? ;)

Ectually, it was driving fine a few months ago. It's being worked on one bit at a time by a small shop across town. I'm in no huge hurry, myself. :)

That is a good tip, anyhow. The throttle linkage does still need a bit of tweaking, and I'll take a look at the kickdown cable when I look at that... Thanks!

(takes notes) Righty-oh! Now, what do you know about ACC-II?

(snicker) Just the usual, i.e. it only runs in default. According to the paperwork I got from the PO, the valve under the hood has been replaced already. Don't have it handy so's I can't check the vacuum lines. How often does the computer behind the glovebox go flooey?

Mitch, remember coming across this gem years back?

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1682558/

Veddy cool! Ah, the memories... :D

Drop a small block chevy motor and paint in in Temp Corps colors. Go on, I know you want to....