blakamin

just dragging up old stuff coz I was trying to find out about structural rust (yeah, found some) but all the LTSA links are stuffed... any ideas?

so how much are the flappers????

yeah, but the merc won't fit in it!

Workshop at work tho!

Got a mate that knows a dude...

Got me a shiny thing!!!!

And that is Saddam Hussein in the noose.

well done! that looks farkin amazin!!!

Top Job!

so what happened? (hate the hole meself, went from pram to waihi, tauranga, and back in one day)

i dont mind applying window tint. done it alot before, used to do it for a company here in welly. what sort of car is it?

you can do my back window then, pies

there's some dude selling pre-cut tints to suit your car on tardme... start at about $78 a full car... nearly cheaper than buying 2 rolls and cutting it yourself (major hassle, especially with and old car that has felt around windows )

Like the wheels...

I used to have a 59 ute over in oz... sold it when I found the rear quarters were chicken wire and bog still, got more than I paid for it.

Had the same crap exhaust!

Who wants to go 1/8 mile drag racing anyways on an unprepared surface when you can get all hot & sticky at MMP

true... typical of kapiti council morons tho....

Why they have to put the events on same days this year!!!

What a fuckin stupid idea!!!

Who had their brains in their arse for that to happen???

just so people don't think it be a 4X4...

is that the same weekend as drags and show in P'ram?

me and me brother bought 5 VW's for 450$$$.. back in 1990.. (yeah, old bartstrd) was 3 bugs, a type3 and a fucken mashed karmaan... (or whateever... was a mates b'day and I'm bourboned)

btw... the type 3 near killed the tandem... rule 1: don't tow at more than 140kmh in a 350 powered LH torana... unless you can drop a gear and accelerate down a hill !... had some mad shakes! had 6in skids on the trailer deck from the body sway

My bad... at a glance I think I could be forgiven for being mistaken

There'll be other Welly runs, how about a fang up to Palmy next eh

will be into that... was up bainesse 2 weeks ago... towin a friggin cement mixer behind the Merc!

might be able to sort you sumfin... PM me...

Hey man, welcome to the oldschool madhouse.....

W115's rock, I saw a MINT black coupe doing laps in Palmy on the weekend... and yeah, chuck a project thread up and so on

they do... but not as much as W114s!!!

Thanks for the welcome... Cant wait till yas do another welly run

Forgot to mention the reason for a 71 Merc after years of V8 fords an other stuff... (and a ducati)

Factory, in 1971:

4 wheel discs!

Independent Rear suspension!

OHC Alloy head 2.5ltr 6 cyl

4 speed manual

blah blah blah... the list is endless

and a ride sooo smooove....

The Plan.. Old Merc, low and black... whitewalls, tints, maybe bags eventually.... a plate thats suits her... Old School!

The old bitch is the same age as me... this was when I saw it on trademe (4 or 5 weeks ago)

Next I got her off the boat (came from Nelson a full seven friggin days later)

Then took her home with all my plans in my head but my daughter got there first!

Then I got into it... Tinted it in the first week, cut the front... was 80mm at the crosmember and the exhaust was lower so I lifted her a little... couldn't get the jack out.

Changed the bonnet, cut out some rust and began the flat-black-one-panel-at-a-time-until-i-get-some-money theme

Now... 3 or 4 weeks later... dumped the arse too but not too much as I sometimes drive around with 56kg of tools in the boot.

will update as I go...

Discussion: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/21046-blakamins-71-mercedes-of-doom/?hl=merc

there's a coupla MK1 wagons up this way... and heaps of sedans and the occasional 2 door.

precision tool, the hammer.

In Oz they're known as "Holden Special Tool No. 1"

bangin' car dude, welcome to the site.

was wondering when someone with someting like this would join up!

Not up there with the bagged fintail yet... but maybe oneday!

Decided I better say hi here to teh locals...

got me a 71 benz.

and I can't find my fcukin password for imageshack.

shit happens...

(edit:) found it, gmail thought it was spam

anyway, Hi all!

all my other details are in the "new member" bit.

Mike

where abouts are ya? I happen to work for a hire company and might be able to do ya a deal

Name: Mike

Location: Kapiti

Cars you own: 1971 Mercedes 230

Mods: 250 engine, lowered (want bags eventually coz it scrapes in my driveway), tints, slowly going flat black. doin it all slow coz I still gotta drive it to work. and of course, the plates

How you found out about oldschool: searchin NZ for whitewalls

coupla pics: