"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
07/31/2015 at 21:38 • Filed to: None
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"AdverseMartyr" (ewilliamson)
07/31/2015 at 21:38 • Filed to: None | 3
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I finally have the other 450SL here. Now that it is unburied from the pile of crap it was under, and is not covered by a lot of dirt (comparatively speaking) I can see it is not at all white, but rather a shade of metallic grey.
Since I can finally get a look underneath and at the edges of all the panels I think I can with confidence say that it is indeed most suited to being a parts car for the brown one.
On the plus side it has a lot of small items of use including a factory radio which I can use to return the other one to stock, and most of the Mercedes tool roll. Hopefully, the odometer works as well.
Now I just need my infant son to start sleeping long enough for me to not spend my days (and nights) trying to rock him to sleep.
Dogapult
> AdverseMartyr
07/31/2015 at 23:10 |
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How rusty is it?
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AdverseMartyr
> Dogapult
07/31/2015 at 23:21 |
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The grey one (at a glance) needs a new passenger door, probably (and certainly easiest) a rear passenger quarter panel, easiest to do a new front passenger quarter panel, a new hood (or someone to weld in a new piece on the passenger side reinforcement) and various surface rust spots on the rest of the car. Basically the right side of the car is toast. So I haven’t even bothered checking underneath the car.
The soft top has a hole in it that has been mended with thread, and I’m not sure it is waterproof.
I might use it as welding/bodywork practice if I don’t take anything from the engine and just futz with it to see if I can make it drive-able after I finish the brown one. Though that would mean talking my wife into an English wheel, hammers and a welding machine.