Matt Jones' W123 Benz and Humber Super Snipe Camper

[Guest Matt Jones]

Hi everyone.

I found this website through Retro-Rides.com (UK equivalent to you lot). I've been looking at the projects over here and they're absolutely awesome. That W108 Benz is literally the law. And the slammed Chevette! Amazing.

Anyhow, here are my rides:

The Benz -

So, a long time ago I bought a W123 Benz with a few coils trimmed out:



The engine popped five years later, so I dragged this out of my very, very shitted up 560 SEL:



Put this on a box:



Spend bloody ages cleaning it:



Put it in here:



Had this made:





Cleaned it up underneath:



Put some better anchors on:



Cleaned up the old interior and made them look like this:



The rust bin began to fill up, but the sheet steel pile got smaller:



I trial-fitted my banded steelies, but decided against them in the end:



Sorted out the stance:



Took the old rubber cornered bumpers off:



Waited for my new bumpers to arrive:



Cleaned up the engine bay a little:





Made it through an MOT (UK health cert equivalent). This is the only pic I have to date:



New pic:



But it's going back on the normal wheel trims and eventually will look like my sig pic!

[Guest Matt Jones]

Humber SS Wagon -

Looks straight, doesn't she?

An hour after picking up:

Natty split hatch being inspected:

Mmmm, three scotch locks on one length of wire....:

She performed faultlessly at the Retro Rides show:

But when she got home, I set about stripping her:

This is the last outing she had before I decommisioned :

It looked a bit like this for a while:

But then she won some workshop space, finally! So I took the dash out to be reveneered:

Ratty seats came out:

Apologies for terrible pic, but the floor wasn't too bad:

And came up well, save for the inner sills and a few sections of the floor, so I took off a bit of trim and polished it to celebrate:

Then I got stuck into the floor - not bad, eh?

The I purchased one of these...mmm:

But then made the mistake of taking the windscreen out:

Again, apologies for the rubbish shots, but both a pillars were a right state:

Out came the cutting disk:

Then the MIG:

Old carb off:

Waterpump off (seized)

Rocker cover now painted, then I had to put out a fucking great big fire and it got covered in powder. Arse.

[Guest Matt Jones]

So, I was messing around with the Humber yesterday and wondered how well the thermostat housing would polish, just out of curiosity really.

But to my surprise it came out beautifully.

So, I thought to myself, what else is alloy?

Busy:

New gasket in the making:

Cleaning the scabby old one off was a right pain. But this was encouragement enough:

Bolted it down, I've got to spin it 90degrees, though (the rocker cover fouls the throttle linkage atm). But nothing twenty minutes can't sort out.

I got this tacked in now, too. Hopefully it'll be welded by the weekend: