Operation Dirty Penny - '75 Merc 240D

[bFreed]

Props for this pretty wild amount of work lol

Joe bought a custom built hot rod front end, cool to see his old stuff being put to good use.

[jazig.k]

You should give us a run down on lead filling! Rare skill! I'd love to see more

[dineno]

Props for this pretty wild amount of work lol

Joe bought a custom built hot rod front end, cool to see his old stuff being put to good use.

I've been a huge fan of his previous stage of the car and cant wait to see the completion of the current project he has going on with it.

You should give us a run down on lead filling! Rare skill! I'd love to see more

I'll have to grab more pictures this week. Its a pain in the ass, lead based body soldering is much easier. I needed pure lead for the copper plating to work right though.

[dineno]

So I'm finally having my seats made. Here's a picture of what they look like. Thinking about having the same pair maid for the rear too, but might do the rear ones without the copper. The idea is that instead of having a bench, I'll have 2 bucket seats in the rear and an enclosed tunnel made with aluminum and aircraft rivets that extends from the front center console up to the the rear deck. My air tank will go on the rear deck and copper hardlines will run down the tunnel to the paddle valves up front.

[Red_Arrowheads]

So I'm finally having my seats made. Here's a picture of what they look like. Thinking about having the same pair maid for the rear too, but might do the rear ones without the copper. The idea is that instead of having a bench, I'll have 2 bucket seats in the rear

That sounds like a fantastic idea!

and an enclosed tunnel made with aluminum and aircraft rivets that extends from the front center console up to the the rear deck. My air tank will go on the rear deck and copper hardlines will run down the tunnel to the paddle valves up front.

Please, please, PLEASE! Do this!

[loekaaz]

you fail at failing life

[dineno]

Please, please, PLEASE! Do this!

Already ordered everything to do it, as soon as the floors are finished, the air setup and the upholstery begins.

[SD202]

WOW! this thread gets better every time i visit

[eethirty]

Oh god this is getting so good.

[MercTastic]

You magnificent bastard. Your plans get better and better and you don't even tell us what some of them are until it has already been initiated and works so well. Those badass bomber seats came outta nowhere and the interior plans are awesome!!

[Brandon_Schulze]

In for more

[dineno]

You magnificent bastard. Your plans get better and better and you don't even tell us what some of them are until it has already been initiated and works so well. Those badass bomber seats came outta nowhere and the interior plans are awesome!!

Lol I did tell you guys in the beginning I had a thorough plan that I was only going to share as each part was actually executed. Its been tough holding everything back, thats why everythings been jumping all over the place, to hint at what the car as a whole is to be. That and the fact that I had to wait on lots of different things to come in halfway through something.

[SnazzyQ]

Can you just stop being cool. like damn stealing my thunder other there.

PS. those seats are amazing and I love you.

[dineno]

So I took it upon myself to learn upholstery last night. Bought some scrap vinyl and some spools of thread and got to making french seams all night. I wanted to learn how to do it by hand before using the machine. I'll tell you what though, takes 2 hours to do a small section by hand like the one pictured and about 30 seconds on the machine. Glad I learned but I'll definitely be using the machine on this one. Never realized how hard it was to make straight stitches by hand too unless you mark it good and pre punch.

Anyways, I'm torn between these four combinations for the interior:

1. Black Leather, Copper colored metallic stitching
2. Black Leather, Steel colored stitching (kind of like a silvery grey
3. Brown Leather, Copper stitching
4. Brown Leather, Black Stitching

This would be for things like the door cards, headliner, pillars, "carpets" and dash

[hinrichs]

how well does the copper thread match? to me the black leather and copper thread would be classy, but then again so would the brown leather depending. I feel if you could find distressed brown "cigar" leather that would be badass.