What's going on guys, As many of you know I love the w124 and w201 chassis and it looks like I've managed to get myself back into the game. I recently went to take a look at a 1988 300E and when the owner opened up the garage door I had to hold in my screams. The paint was 9.9/10, the interior was 10/10 and just gorgeous, it already had euro headlights and clear corners (Which I'm going to change back to ambers), no rust and was just perfect. The only downside is that it's in need of a FPR to get running. He opened up the engine bay and it was the only dirty thing on the car and when I say dirty I mean freakin DIRTY. Mechanically and electrically everything looked sound but the thing needs a good dusting for sure lol. After checking the fluids I was surprised because they are cleaner than the actual fluids in my Lexus that I daily drive haha. Now onto the cool part and reason for title.
The car sat in a barn for 8 years under a tarp and the owner surprisingly maintained it while doing so. Before then it was used as a farm transportation vehicle for the first 20 years of its life and was never abused. For the last year it has been moved into the PO's garage and left alone due to a bad FPR. As of now all it needs to run is a FPR, Valve cover bolts for an m103 (PO's lost them a few months ago), and a battery charge and hopefully she'll be up and running as perfect as the owner told me.
Here's my plan for the car over the next few months:
Sandblast valve covers and various engine bay parts that need repainting
Blast Exhaust mani's and ceramic coat them
R129 strut mounts
Bilstein B8 fronts
Saab 9-3 Turbo shocks for the rear
7 inch 28 Kgf Swift springs with e36 adjusters
Cut 400e springs for the front until I can figure out the swift springs that will work up front with adjusters
Amber corners
Window curtains
Euro tails
Touch up the lightweight w124 panels that have became grey over the years
New bumper cover
Wheel choice is either going to be 16 inch Starion wheels with wobble bolts or an OEM+ look with some late model S class wheels.
I don't have very many pics because I have to trailer the car on Sunday and I will have tons then. This build isn't going to be too crazy as the whole reason I got it is so my lady can have a summer car here when she moves from the east coast to Arizona but luckily she wants it to have nice fitment and be slammed so it should be fun.
Majority of what you see here is dust, it's almost hard to believe the paint is original because of how good it is but it is.

The interior is seriously immaculate, VIP tables and curtains will look so good.

Some dirty dirt action going on it here, mostly dust that will be easy to clean but I can't wait to dig into this thing.


Here's my plan for the car over the next few months:
Sandblast valve covers and various engine bay parts that need repainting
Blast Exhaust mani's and ceramic coat them
R129 strut mounts
Bilstein B8 fronts
Saab 9-3 Turbo shocks for the rear
7 inch 28 Kgf Swift springs with e36 adjusters
Cut 400e springs for the front until I can figure out the swift springs that will work up front with adjusters
Amber corners
Window curtains
Euro tails
Touch up the lightweight w124 panels that have became grey over the years
New bumper cover
Wheel choice is either going to be 16 inch Starion wheels with wobble bolts or an OEM+ look with some late model S class wheels.
I don't have very many pics because I have to trailer the car on Sunday and I will have tons then. This build isn't going to be too crazy as the whole reason I got it is so my lady can have a summer car here when she moves from the east coast to Arizona but luckily she wants it to have nice fitment and be slammed so it should be fun.
Majority of what you see here is dust, it's almost hard to believe the paint is original because of how good it is but it is.

The interior is seriously immaculate, VIP tables and curtains will look so good.

Some dirty dirt action going on it here, mostly dust that will be easy to clean but I can't wait to dig into this thing.


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