All,
A friend's 230SL was dropped off to me a couple days ago to breathe some new life into. He just purchased the car in non running condition. It was being sold "running" but was then taken off the block as it would just not start. Overall, the body is good, the underbody is better. It has a new interior (carpets, seats) and is just very clean overall. The goal with this is to bring everything back into as close of factory spec as possible. It's not going to be a concours restoration or anything, but a solid base for a driver quality car. Though, I'm known to be a bit anal retentive in details, I'm going to try and keep it driver quality.
There are a lot of non factory pieces that were added onto the car (AC, some oddball SAE hoses, clamps, etc), all of which will be removed and the proper Mercedes equipment installed.
Below is the link to my blog with all the progress thus far. I'll be uploading pictures, etc to the blog and posting the updated links to new blog posts here. It's far easier and quicker to upload pictures/text via the blog vs here so apologies in advance to making you folks click away. I'm sure I'll have some questions on the chassis as I'm relatively newer to the engine, but from what I've been looking at, it's a simple old chunk of metal. I'm going to try and document the process the best I can. Anything that I'm rebuilding, will be a mini-DIY. Hopefully it'll be a learning process for both myself and others who are not well versed in Pagoda.
Here's the link to the blog section with what's been posted:
http://artisanexcite.blogspot.com/search/label/230SL - I'm not sure how many posts show up per page, but there's usually a small arrow around the bottom right that'll take you to a new post set.
Via the blog you can search whatever you'd like and maybe I'll have something else to pique your interests.
Comments, concerns, critiques are VERY welcome! I'll keep this thread updated with new posts!
Allen