Home again!

[JCM]

After 20 months of restoration, my 1970 280 SL is home for a shakeout/break-in visit.  In 28 years of ownership, it has never looked this good.  It will go back to Gus for final tuning and to retrieve the hard top which is still being re-done.

For anyone who is having a car restored, the wait is worth it!

John

[49er]

Congratulations and welcome home to your beautiful SL! Must be a great feeling to get behind the wheel again.

John

[Norm]

Congratulations John!

We have a local C&C on Sunday, November 4th at Brookshire Bros.  8 - 11 am.  Hopefully you can bring it out.  If not, bring it by the house when you are out "exercising" the car and have a few minutes.  I would love to see it "up close and personal".

Norm

[JCM]

Thanks Norm,

Will do.  John

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Congrats John she looks grand! Enjoy and make up for lost time. I can see you smiling now

Dieter

[neelyrc]

Very nice John.  Hopefully you will have a mild winter and will be able to exercise it well over the next few months.👏

[kampala]

Looks very nice!   Looks like you have black hub caps?  So your hard top is black?   Maybe those are dark blue? 

What color white is that.  I assume 717 or 050?

Enjoy!

[JCM]

Kampala,

Yes they are black and the hardtop will be black also.  The car did not originally come with a hard top, it was acquired by a previous owner.  The color is 050.  I've attached a "before" picture from February 2017, the day before it went to the restorer.  Big difference.

John

[johnk]

what a beautiful improvement!