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al_lieffring

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Al's 66 230SL
« on: July 28, 2006, 13:07:49 »
Hey ya'll
My son has pulled the cover off my old 66 so we can get it running again for him to drive. I am only the second owner of this car. I purchased it out of a salvage yard in Texas back in may of '76. It was my daily driver for about 5 years but has been languishing out in the garage for most of the last 30 years.
Here is a pic I took back in 1976
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113-042-10-014715
built 11 Jan 66
904/396 blue, Ivory Tex
condition- rust bucket
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al_lieffring

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Re: Al's 66 230SL
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2006, 13:19:02 »
Here is the condition it's in now:
The more I check it the more I find that needs work.
It will never look like showroom new again, but we'll get it good enough to go bombing around in.
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Al
113-042-10-014715
built 11 Jan 66
904/396 blue, Ivory Tex
condition- rust bucket
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Douglas

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Re: Al's 66 230SL
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2006, 13:24:07 »
Al,
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting that your 230 SL has the later 280 SL-style bumper guards. Were the bumpers updated at some point years ago?
Douglas Kim
New York
USA
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KevinC

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Re: Al's 66 230SL
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2006, 13:33:21 »
Get used to this...
quote:
Originally posted by al_lieffring


The more I check it the more I find that needs work.
Al
113-042-10-014715
built 11 Jan 66
904/396 blue, Ivory Tex
condition- rust bucket

Kevin Caputo
Boca Raton, FL
1967 230 SL Automatic
670 Light Ivory
113 Bronze/Brown MB Tex
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al_lieffring

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Re: Al's 66 230SL
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2006, 13:35:02 »
quote:
Originally posted by Douglas

Al,
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting that your 230 SL has the later 280 SL-style bumper guards. Were the bumpers updated at some point years ago?
Douglas Kim
New York
USA

Hey Douglas
Back in the 70's my father and I had a Benz specialty repair and body shop.
The 280SL bumper guards were a dealer installed option (made in the USA) and were sold as a complete set of 4. When we repaired accident damaged cars we would put on the complete new set, and I saved the good take-offs till I had a complete set to put on my own SL.
Al
113-042-10-014715
built 11 Jan 66
904/396 blue, Ivory Tex
condition- rust bucket
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al_lieffring

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Re: Al's 66 230SL
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2006, 13:47:29 »
Are the photo upload rules posted somewhere?
I could only get my pics to upload by shrinking them down to 300pixels wide.
Thanx
Al Lieffring
113-042-10-014715
built 11 Jan 66
904/396 blue, Ivory Tex
condition- rust bucket
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