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I've been following Stanceworks forums for a while and I always had a soft spot for W115 Mercedes after seeing the gorgeous cars on this forum. I'm from Malta a small island in Europe, I lived in Canada for about 5 years, where I saw the green benz live and I was hooked.
I have recently returned living in my home land. I started looking for a suitable car to put on air ride and by chance I found this one a local classified website.
Its a 1969 W115 which is mostly original and has been restored in the 90's (my guess). Apparently its been in a collection for 10 years and I bought it from a German guy who owned for 3 years but never had the time to fix some small problems, so he just drove it for the first year he owned it. Its quite rare its a factory diesel, with quarter windows, column shifter and double bumpers.
I got in touch with the owner but the problem was the car hadn't been driven for long and it was located on another island. I asked my uncle to come with me and check it out, I liked it there and then and told the owner I would pick it as soon as I could. 1 week later I was ready to pick up the car, so we took the ferry again, got some temporary plates and drove the car down.
My country is very small but its quite hilly and I was a bit nervous driving a column shift car for the first time, every time I needed to shift into 1st or 2nd gear I was guessing and keeping my fingers crossed it didn't stall. Everything went smoothly, good torque and brakes, strong oil pressure and perfect engine temperature. About three quarters of the way home I noticed the the engine temperature started rising and I saw some brown dots on the windshield....
I promptly pulled to the side and opened the hood to find a fountain of dirty brown coolant splashing all over the once clean engine. After a quick look I noticed that the alternator had a crappy home made bracket that became loose and rubbed onto the coolant hose cutting a small gash into it. My uncle came to the rescue with some double sided tape and piece of wire to hold the hose from rubbing again. 4, two liter bottles of water later and the tape held so we made it safely home...
next on the list is to fix some home made fixes and order some air management kit and some old school lowrider rims and no they're not wires
I guess its a mirror installation fail
I have recently returned living in my home land. I started looking for a suitable car to put on air ride and by chance I found this one a local classified website.
Its a 1969 W115 which is mostly original and has been restored in the 90's (my guess). Apparently its been in a collection for 10 years and I bought it from a German guy who owned for 3 years but never had the time to fix some small problems, so he just drove it for the first year he owned it. Its quite rare its a factory diesel, with quarter windows, column shifter and double bumpers.
I got in touch with the owner but the problem was the car hadn't been driven for long and it was located on another island. I asked my uncle to come with me and check it out, I liked it there and then and told the owner I would pick it as soon as I could. 1 week later I was ready to pick up the car, so we took the ferry again, got some temporary plates and drove the car down.
My country is very small but its quite hilly and I was a bit nervous driving a column shift car for the first time, every time I needed to shift into 1st or 2nd gear I was guessing and keeping my fingers crossed it didn't stall. Everything went smoothly, good torque and brakes, strong oil pressure and perfect engine temperature. About three quarters of the way home I noticed the the engine temperature started rising and I saw some brown dots on the windshield....
I promptly pulled to the side and opened the hood to find a fountain of dirty brown coolant splashing all over the once clean engine. After a quick look I noticed that the alternator had a crappy home made bracket that became loose and rubbed onto the coolant hose cutting a small gash into it. My uncle came to the rescue with some double sided tape and piece of wire to hold the hose from rubbing again. 4, two liter bottles of water later and the tape held so we made it safely home...
next on the list is to fix some home made fixes and order some air management kit and some old school lowrider rims and no they're not wires
I guess its a mirror installation fail
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