Operation Dirty Penny - '75 Merc 240D

[theseeker411]

I mean, I'll be at SoWo, but you probably wouldn't want ODB in your booth leaking shit everywhere.

[mikey G]

I mean, I'll be at SoWo, but you probably wouldn't want ODB in your booth leaking shit everywhere.

Quite reminiscent of the actual ODB. Except i'm sure he was spilling steel reserve and lean everywhere, not diff fluid

[dineno]

I mean, I'll be at SoWo, but you probably wouldn't want ODB in your booth leaking shit everywhere.

I didn't hop in that river last year to get the shot for nothing

[dineno]

I temporarily hung the doors/fender back up on the car today. It was becoming a pain in the ass prepping the steel with the doors off the car, go figure. I had to grab a photo, had almost forget what these things look like with body panels on them lol

[dineno]

Alright so we started working on the rust spots, but before doing so I went around the car took pictures of all bad spots. I'll post 'after' pictures next week probably. I think we'll be shaving the lower rear end body line while also extending the bottom of the rear end by about an inch.














While he's fixing all the rust, I've been slowly but surely pluggin away at the steel prep. Once this thing is polished and rust free its going to come together real quick. It'll be a lot of money to drop all at once though. Wheels, air ride, new weather seals all around, bomber seats, custom leather uplholstery everywhere else, manual transmission.

[P78]

i knew it was a rough car, but never realised there was that much rust

[dineno]

i knew it was a rough car, but never realised there was that much rust

It's not as bad as it looks becuase its only external pieces on the lower portion of the car. A few repair panels and thing is as good as new. Plus i'm sealing everything up really good to keep things from rusting again.

[aLaFleur]

Please give us an idea on what wheels you're going to be running?

[prawiejakpawel]

Fingers crossed for dealing with this rust. I am on board.

[SnazzyQ]

Please give us an idea on what wheels you're going to be running?

xxrs

[dineno]

xxrs

I'm actually in the process of buying a wheel company and will be rebranding. And guess which car gets the first set? This dirty Penny thing.

[dineno]

Anyway, been traveling a lot the past few weeks and will be through the rest of the year but here's a couple pictures of the rust fixing so far. Still have some work to do on them but you get the idea.

[electricalbox]

In for more.

[FowlerE30]

Hey dineno, My car looks a lot simalr to your as far as the rust! I bought some panit remover but it sucked ass, what did you use for your removal/how much? looks like it worked pretty damn good

[dineno]

Hey dineno, My car looks a lot simalr to your as far as the rust! I bought some panit remover but it sucked ass, what did you use for your removal/how much? looks like it worked pretty damn good

I started things out with lots of aircraft stripper which got the bulk of it right off. Then cleaned it up with a wire brush before hand sanding it