The Country Club: 1960 Mercedes 220sb fin tail.

[foxtrot wagon]

dude, this build is very sick, I wish i had the garage set up that you have to work on your car, I cant wait to see it bagged, check out my current project:

my 72 280SE 4.5 [heavy w108 content]

Thanks a lot man!

and that's awesome! good luck with the project!

My last Mercedes was a w108 as well, a 69 280s, before they started doing headrests and seat belts haha.



I actually took a picture of the finny at that same spot today.
Looks a lot different being stock height haha.





I took a good chrome polish to the hub caps and beauty rings today, got a lot of the surface rust out of them. Shined up well!







Also, we got the headlights working tonight and I took her for a real shake down drive.
about 40 mile round trip to a buddy's house. She ran flawlessly.

I really can't put into words the feeling you get when you've had a car torn completely apart, and busted your butt to get something done, then, after it's all been put back together, it runs smooth and does everything you hoped it'd do.

It's really such a rewarding feeling when your work pays off.

With that being said, I've been putting air things together
I've got everything I need, I think we're diving in head first Saturday morning!

[lewda]

dude, this build is very sick, I wish i had the garage set up that you have to work on your car, I cant wait to see it bagged, check out my current project:

my 72 280SE 4.5 [heavy w108 content]

[foxtrot wagon]

Car is awesome! Period correct FTW!

thanks man!





I got her registered today, and took her for a little cruise.

I still haven't figured out my headlight/parking light issue yet, so it was a quick cruise into town to fuel up before the sun went down.

[milano_red]

Car is awesome! Period correct FTW!

[foxtrot wagon]

Aww man this is awesome!! This is one country club I will be glad to join lol

haha thanks man!

[CB7_luver]

Aww man this is awesome!! This is one country club I will be glad to join lol

[foxtrot wagon]

that thing is an engineering abortion and innovation at the same time lol.

and I love the idea for the trunk in the trunk. switch box is gonna be rad as well

haha yea it certainly is, I'd like to know what their thought process was.

and thanks man!

[getamongst-it]

that thing is an engineering abortion and innovation at the same time lol.

and I love the idea for the trunk in the trunk. switch box is gonna be rad as well

[foxtrot wagon]

Also, here is another look at the original Hydrak transmission that was in the brown tail,





The "auto clutch" coupler which acts like a torque converter, holds ATF fluid, self contained and fits inside the bell housing.
The transmission itself still holds gear oil.





So it still has a pressure plate and everything... on the back side of an outer space-designed "automatic clutch coupler" haha. Wild.

[foxtrot wagon]

I picked up what Im putting my tank, compressor, valves etc in today.

I want everything inside so when you open the trunk to the car, it's nothing but the old trunk chest, and the original 0 mileage bias ply spare tire in there.

It's coming together just the way I want it to, and I'm pretty happy so far.

[foxtrot wagon]

Today I drove her down the road for the first time. Shifted smooth, clutch felt good, went down the road awesome.

Being behind the wheel of this car going down the road is amazing, driving my 1969 felt awesome, but this one has a character all it's own, and I have already fallen in love with it.

We took a video of us heading down the road in her, I'll have to upload it tomorrow or something.
For now, I just took a couple of her outside the garage for the first time in a week.
A week isn't so bad for the amount of work that has been done in the amount of time per day we got in on it.







Bags came in today, fun stuff happening soon.

[foxtrot wagon]

Oh the shit is about get authentic! Looking forward to seeing this car done at h2o!

haha thanks man! Im hoping she makes it!

Awesome!

That rear suspension is crazy! They were definitely on to something....

-spatakula

Yea man, that suspension is out of the box for sure haha,

[Spatakula]

Awesome!

That rear suspension is crazy! They were definitely on to something....

-spatakula

[Chuckdee]

Bags and all sorts of other goodies show up tomorrow as well, so I'll be taking measurements and putting some things together.

I picked up what is going to be my switch box today too, 1959, aiming to keep everything period correct

Oh the shit is about get authentic! Looking forward to seeing this car done at h2o!

[foxtrot wagon]

That's going to be killer as a switch box.

thanks man. I've wanted to do an old camera switch box for a while, figured this was the right car to do it in.