Bagged Mercedes W115...

[Zman86]

Not a whole lot happened this weekend, spent four or five hours cleaning and organizing the shop, as it was a complete disaster. Made the hour long drive to pick up my series one doors. Found that the series two doors would not accept the vent windows, so the entire door will have to be swapped.



Here is a series one car with the vent windows



And a later car without

[mystere485]

I had a 70 220d with the vent windows, it felt like ac when both of them were open. also looks symmetrical with.

[Zman86]

Its been a slow couple weeks. Stripped the front brakes, calipers, and backing plates off a week ago, never took any pics. Stripped the front suspension out today, and grabbed some pics of the front bag setup for those that have asked in the past. I plan on using something similar but am probably going to have the upper mount machined out of billet and change the way the upper and lower mounts to the control arms. Also some evidence of the bags rubbing on the control arms, so that's getting fixed as well. Looking for input on boxing the control arms, the lower looks easy, the upper a bit more difficult. The end plan is to have everything pretty much bulletproof as this car is going to get driven a lot.

Next on the list is extract and clean the front subframe and start modifying it, gut the rear suspension and get the rear subframe out, which I'm tasking my girlfriend with. Start labelling wiring and pulling the harness out of the car, pull the doors, pull front and rear glass, pull all airlines, pull all trim, build a dolley to roll the shell around on then send the shell for soda blasting and primer. Then the real fun can begin...

[93foxx]

i dont know man i really like the green with the cream color on the roof looks super classy!

[Zman86]

I've been told by numerous people at shows that I CAN NOT change the colour combo on it, but since it is my car... I feel that if I keep it the same colour, it will never be MY car. Don't get me wrong, I love the combo, but there's many more I like more. I have a scale model 115 I plan on restoring and painting in its current colours.

[93foxx]

i hear ya man, i know exactly what you mean...i kinda like the black its dark but its subtle at the same time.

[Zman86]

Plus it will have a solid black interior, which I think will look great with the black roof.

[Chasen88]

I'm really digging that Porsche green, can't wait to see what combo you end up choosing.

[A4crn]

Wow you're going all out with the rebuild...good stuff. What about the green with a battleship grey colour roof? Just wondering

[Zman86]

I've considers battleship grey for the entire car, since I think it suits it perfectly, but my friends and family all **** it. I'm probably going to do the engine bay, floors and trunk in a matte battleship grey. Also though if doing the bay in the green the car is now as kinda a throwback. Still undecided, that's a long ways away.

[Zman86]

Long time no updates. Weather has been miserable here and motivation for doing anything outdoors has been minimal. Car has not been touched for at least a month, but things should be back on track soon. We have found a nine car shop for rent out in the country at a very reasonable price, so it looks like all our projects will be under one roof again and we will actually have room to work!

The local pick n pull got a 123 in yesterday. Since I forgot to remove some stuff from my engine donor car, I went and picked up a complete throttle linkage, high idle cable, power steering lines and a bunch of ball and cup links to have as spares. Car was far too nice to be in the junkyard...

[Zman86]

Bagged Mercedes W115...

Big step forward yesterday. Only took 6 months to do, but I finally dug the engine out and moved it to the new shop. Will be doing a shop organize and starting back in the car this weekend.





This has been taking up most of my car related spare time lately...

[tauriq]

Love the progress on the interior! great find...

[Zman86]

Car is going into indefinite storage in the next month, to be tackled at a later date when I have an appropriate workspace/tools to do the job. The amount of rot was much more than I anticipated, and I pretty much just said fuck it after I found it and have not touched the car since.

To be completely honest, it's not even worth the time /money to do the body work, these cars are readily available in good condition for 2-5k. I have no idea what will happen with it in the future.

[kipperhughes]

Loving the progress on this hope you come back to getting it back to rolling.

Ive got a manual 4 speed W115 and saw couple pages back that you managed to change the gear knob on one and was wondering how you actually got the original one off as can't find any information anywhere on how to remove it?