I sold my 600 three months ago to Raymond Leisher, who has turned it into the most exquisite example in a very short space of time. It's tremendously satisfying to see what he has done to the car and it's great that the car went to someone who was prepared to throw the relevant money required to turn it into what it is:
Before:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/Pic020.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/Pic022.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/1bb31c2f.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/Picture013.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/Picture010.jpg)
After:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/030DesktopResolution-1.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/031DesktopResolution.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/032DesktopResolution-1.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/004DesktopResolution-2.jpg)
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That's lovely Grant. I'm sure it warms your heart to see the car in this condition. Sad it must have been to see her go but after this much TLC and $$$$$ the result is stunning.
3 months!! That's a phenomenal transformation. Truly amazing.
that is fantastic, so much detail. Great to see
holy shit!
and i feel bad dropping 10 bucks on a new beim beladen sticker for the boot!
its also interesting grant that in the service place pictured are so many old benzes...you wouldnt trust an australian MB dealer with your old benz!
grant
thats look great.almost shat myself when i saw the petrol green 116 in the background, thought it was mine for a second, then remembered my one is at home.
thats great , need to know who that work, methinks i will have to go that route and throw some money at this car of mine
Nathan, this pic of the 600 was taken at our recent MB Club concours, which was held at a local MB dealership, hence all the decent cars in the background. All the new plastic stuff was parked outside!
http://forum.w116.org/auto-torque/mercedes-benz-of-south-africa-concourse/
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One would presume however those three months were using a calendar that had gold bars with each date engraved in them that you would hand to the team and parts vendors instead of tearing off and throwing away.
Does anyone have an estimate of cost in dollars and materials? I'm getting cranky enough I'm just going to ask people from now on.
Quote from: kolin on 02 October 2008, 09:16 AM
grant
thats look great.almost shat myself when i saw the petrol green 116 in the background, thought it was mine for a second, then remembered my one is at home.
thats great , need to know who that work, methinks i will have to go that route and throw some money at this car of mine
Isn't that W116 colour Citrus Green? You have one the same?
Any chance of posting a photo?
Chris
Quote from: John Hubertz on 04 October 2008, 08:33 AM
One would presume however those three months were using a calendar that had gold bars with each date engraved in them that you would hand to the team and parts vendors instead of tearing off and throwing away.
Does anyone have an estimate of cost in dollars and materials? I'm getting cranky enough I'm just going to ask people from now on.
That pretty much sums it up, John, and Raymond is in the fortunate postion to be able to spread those gold bars about. Someone once said to me: "A restoration is only as good as the amount of money you have to spend"
I sold the car to him with most of the new rubber seals for doors, windows etc, and that little consignment cost me ZAR26 000 two years ago. Raymond told me that the re-veneering of all the wood cost ZAR25 000, the re-upholstery of the seats, door panels and roof lining was ZAR15 000 and the paint job was ZAR50 000. I have no idea what all the re-chroming cost, but you can probably bank on another ZAR20-25 000. He did the re-assembly of the car himself, so probably saved some bucks there. However, he has a full time mechanic in his services, so that should be another ZAR8-10 000 per month.
As a matter of interest, look what
other toys else he's
playing with in the process of restoring:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/003-4.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h305/aquariusg/009DesktopResolution-2.jpg)
That W116 is caledonian green - which is a solid colour - and the pannelling to the rear of the front wheels in the wheel arches should be black not body coloured.
Quote from: Grant V on 05 October 2008, 01:49 AM
As a matter of interest, look what other toys else he's playing with in the process of restoring:
That's awsome.
Quote from: GreaseMonkey on 04 October 2008, 03:23 PM
Quote from: kolin on 02 October 2008, 09:16 AM
grant
thats look great.almost shat myself when i saw the petrol green 116 in the background, thought it was mine for a second, then remembered my one is at home.
thats great , need to know who that work, methinks i will have to go that route and throw some money at this car of mine
Isn't that W116 colour Citrus Green? You have one the same?
Any chance of posting a photo?
Chris
i think they called it petrol green in good ol' RSA.
absolutely must be one of the worst colours ever thought up for a car.
i know some of you guys will love it,but i dont.
i want to paint it royal blue....
all pics taken with a cell phone,as i dont yet own a digicam(so please scroll through my 8 pictures)
Link (http://s369.photobucket.com/albums/oo135/kolinz23/?action=view¤t=06102008002.jpg)
Nice kolin!
Finaly I get to see your green love! We had an olive green 74 280S man when I was a wittle boy.
What happened to the paint? Did somebody spray thinners (finners) on there?
Pompy-doodle
Come now guys - a lesson in 70's MB greens :
SOLID COLOURS :
860 GRUN :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/860gruen1.jpg)
867 kaledoniengrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/116_867kaledoniengruen.jpg)
880 agavengrün :
no picture
291 dunkelolive
no picture
825 tiefgrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/825tiefgrun.jpg)
870 nickelgrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/116_870nickelgruen1.jpg)
875 mangogrün :
no picture
METALLIC COLOURS :
861 silbergrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/280SELsilbergruen861.jpg)
874 citrusgrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/874citrus2.jpg)
862 piniengrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/862pi1.jpg)
876 zypressengrün :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/876zypresse.jpg)
877 petrol :
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/116/877.jpg)
877 Petrol was much more popular in the W123/W126 era.
(http://www.astralsilber.de/farbcodes/877_petrol.jpg)
All photos courtesy of www.meinbenz.de
Aha, my olive green is then def kaledoniengrun. I quite like it - looks like snot-green.
Kolin I must say even I was a bit dubious about yr petrol-green - the petrol green that s-class posted is also what I had in mind!
S-class, what about thistle-green? Or is that the silbergrun?
I used to have such nice pics of that 280S - dad unfortuanately left all our photo-albums in the shed where it got rained upon...
Anyways, there was a pic, taken around 1982 (during the good old days) in the Northern parts of Namibia - where game is rife next to the road - especially Kudu. Well, dad poached a nice young Kudu bull of around 400pds from the driver's seat of the Benz and with the help of his mates loaded it into the boot of the Benz - horns dragging on the tar road.
Needless to say Gramps was highly upset by Dad's behaviour as they were/are highly respected people in their town...
wish I still had that pic...
Silber-grun is the colour commonly (incorrectly) called thistle green.
861 silber-grun was available on W116's up till 1979.
881 silberdistel (thistle green) is a different (but similar) colour available from 1979 to 1986.
I don't think german build 116's were supplied in 881, though I do think it was available on CDA cars.
Anyhow, this is 881 :
Its greener than 861, and I would say it is the colour of your car pompy.
You can confirm by looking at the VIN on the firewall. On CDA cars oyu see the VIN followed by the CDA build number followed by the three digit paint code. CDA cars lack the 'options' plate found on german bild cars.
(http://www.meinbenz.de/farben/107/107_881silberdistel3.jpg)
well it seems that mine is kaledonien grun.
always thought it was petrol from a merc advert i once saw in some mag that said something like "A merc that can go over a million kilometrers on 12 liters of petrol"
then went on to explain that the merc was painted with 12 litres of paint and you could driver over a million kilometres with your car. and the colour was thsi green.
well thank you s-class for getting us all straight on the colours of green.
now pompy asked out loud how its got the extra green on the door.
well, it so happened that our bookeeper lady some many years ago was without a car for the weekend, so the old man lent her the car.came back with a dent in the front door. man was he cheesed off and she said it was there already.i said he should have fired her on the spot. then he parked it by the house and turned the wheel as parking and the whole car shifted and dented the back door.
So he sent the car in for panelbeating and it came back stunning.
but a few years later, the rust came through and the paint peeled off and the trimming came off as well, so to stop the growth of rust, i used my sons graffitti paint as my eye told me the lid of the spray can looked the closest colour to the car.
but when i sprayed it on it wasnt the same, but the rot has stopped. i think i will have to replace the doors and do a respray of the car.
like i said to GrantV this weekend, i am almost scared to strat, but start i will with a new fuel pomp.
APAPOP
As you say - n pomp is a pomp ou pel... nice one bruv!