Restoration - Mercedes-Benz W108 280S (part 3)

The part 3 of this series of articles on the Mercedes-Benz W108 restoration is certainly overdue and it’s finally time to do it. If you guys have been following the part 1 and part 2, this article will not be difficult to understand. Hahaha.. Well, this is the last bit of this restoration project that I took on last year. Carrying on from part 2 where I mentioned that the car was painted, the part 3 will reflect it’s final touches in getting the car ready which includes getting all the small bits polished and ensuring that the car will be a complete one once ready.

Car in for some carburettor tuning

There were a number of mechanical items to be sorted out which included fine tuning the refurbished original Zenith carburettors, sending the fuel tank for a full clean up, getting new clutch master and slave cylinders and a few more (I’ve only mentioned what I would consider the major ones). Once all the above were sorted out, it then came to the final cosmetic detailing which included a full interior clean up and also a brand new set of tyres and to accompany the tyres were a set of white walls and it’s sparkling colour coded chrome wheel caps.

It still had a few more interior fittings to do before the car was sent to a motor show for display and below are some of the shots of the car once completed. Some of the photos may make the colour look a little different as they were taken from different cameras but the first picture above is the most accurate one just in case you were wondering what the actual colour looked like. All in all, I must say it was quite a challenging time restoring this car especially when it came to sourcing parts but it was well worth it. Now time to move one to another project which may be another Mercedes or a Jaguar or perhaps, an American? Hhhmmmm... Well, let’s see what time has in store...