Project 66' 250s

   On October 22, 2010 I purchased a 1966 Mercedes 250s. This year and model hold a spot in my heart. My dad owned a '66 when we lived in San Diego, he had welded in a new back end and swapped in a 2.8 liter. He sold it when we were moved to Washington, and at first I didn't really mind, but as the years went by I realized I really wanted to own one. I looked for months before I came across this one, and what a catch she is. I have paper work dating back to the first sale in 1966. From my understanding, the car sat in a garage for around 10 years, then sat outside for a few months. 

  She would turn but wouldn't start, and when we got her home we saw that it must have been a carb issue. We towed the car to Carb Connections in Kirkland, WA, and just as we suspected they needed to be rebuilt. After Carb Conn rebuilt and tuned them, the motor sounded very healthy, however the transmission wasn't shifting into 3rd, it was slipping. There is a gentlemen by the name of Rob that owns Benz Friendz here in the Seattle area. He has a warehouse filled with old-timer parts and he had the 250s transmission that we needed.
  The '66 would become my daily driver and slowly I would get her back to where I wanted her. A few months later I had NorthWest AutoSalon do a full exterior detail. They attempted to get the original 46 year old paint back to it's former glory, and boy did they do a great job. I found a set of pretty rare NOS Cibie 5 3/4 headlights and had NWAS put protective film on them. I'm very pleased with how she looks.
  The plan for the next few months is to take the seats out and sand the floor boards, put a rust preventive coat of paint and then install brand new carpet. Since purchasing the '66 I have tossed the idea around of Airbags and to this day I can't decide if thats the way I want to go...

Top: My Dad took this the day we pushed her in the garage.

Photo by: Travis Cuykendall for StanceWorks

Photo by: Travis Cuykendall "iPhone" The day I picked her up from NWAS.

Photo by: Justin Swain

It's been quite sometime.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidyaertitus/6024460775/

JZM3 and BastosBill

 Went over to Bill's to drop off a part and since it was so gorgeous in the PNW we decided on a impromptu photoshoot.

the stance movement??

As many have seen in the last few years the stance movement is growing by the hour. I myself am guilty of loving stanced cars. But it also makes you think if this trend will die out because of how ever so popular it's getting. If that makes any sense. There are hundreds of blogs about this style and hundreds of kids that dig it. I've seen some terrible examples with too much poke and stretch and I've seen some amazing ones. With all the internet sites blowing up with these cars people are starting to make some silly mods, "LOUD" mods to get peoples attention and "stand out" In my opinion this is killing the scene. I love seeing the purpose built track cars, or the very clean simply modded daily drivers just as much as I love seeing the slammed to the ground daily drivers.

Here are a few cars that may not be "stanced" in today's definition of the term but have an aggressive drop with a lot of presence.

Cant wait for summer!

Once again it has been way too long since my last post.
Just an update:
Eve has lost a header bolt and I have the worst exhaust leak, sounds terrible. I am waiting to order a stud kit from turner and new gaskets from pelican parts.
Stud kit:

Pro. Eve

I have a few new pics that were taken at M car day hosted by Griot's Garage. Also a few I snapped after. Then there's a quick video of my exhaust, which I have straight pipes that lead to the longest Magnaflow exhaust I could find.

something different

I'm really liking this car, I know its all stickered up which loses the clean aspect of a car but something to me is appealing about it. Very in your face "don't care what you say" style. Not to mention the car is slammed.