The Country Club: 1960 Mercedes 220sb fin tail.

[SD202]

ahhh yeahhh cant wait to see her aired out ! Keep up the good work !

[foxtrot wagon]

So siked, hopefully you actually keep this more than a week...

looking forward to seeing this and you at h20

haha yea man, this one is sticking around. I've got a lot of work into her haha.

and Im psyched to see everyone again this year!

ahhh yeahhh cant wait to see her aired out ! Keep up the good work !

thanks a lot man!
It will be soon!

[foxtrot wagon]

So the swap is done. Finally.

Just had to put the 4spd standard steering column in and hook up the shift linkage.

After getting everything all hooked up, and bleeding the clutch master and slave cylinders, everything worked flawlessly. Clutch, all gears, the shift linkage etc.

Obviously now that I've been in and under the dash, there are electrical gremlins I have to chase down. Parking lights are on full time now and the headlights aren't working (which were before the swap)

So tomorrow's plan is to square all of that away, register it, and drive her!

[foxtrot wagon]

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

[C-Hutch]

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

[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.

[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!

[Spatakula]

Awesome!

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

-spatakula

[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,

[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]

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]

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.

[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]

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!

[CB7_luver]

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