1950's Merc 220s Saved from the grave - rat rod restoration

[piscola90]

Following on from a 190SL restoration, I thought I'd start a thread for my Mercedes 220s Ponton project.

Here is the car from day 1:





















All ideas welcome.

Edited by piscola90 on Wednesday 28th October 22:45

[Pentoman]

Great pics.

I haven't done this before. But my approach would be... get it running and useable. Starting with the things that make it driveable reliably and once done going from there. Should make it more tempting to sort it when one knows that it drives.

Good luck

[williamp]

Restore it, then drive round the countryside chasing silver DB5's with the car full of south koreans....

[piscola90]

This build will now be an AMG conversion (55 or 63 engine). That will give around 500bhp.

If anyone knows of any 55 or 63 AMG cars that are crash damaged - please let me know as I'm looking at possible donor cars now.

Thanks,

Edited by piscola90 on Wednesday 28th October 22:48

[lesstatt]

Do you have finished pics ?

[clarkmagpie]

I'm in!

[piscola90]

Finished pics of the SL?

Edited by piscola90 on Wednesday 28th October 22:53

[piscola90]

Donor car secured.
Its a CLS with the AMG supercharged 5.5L.
If anyone needs anything from this car then let me know.

I'll only be using the engine and some of the running gear.

Edited by piscola90 on Wednesday 28th October 22:52

[Kmoosa]

You don't have piano black interior trim available by any chance do you?

[jke11y]

I had that engine in my E55 estate and it was nothing short of frightening. It will be crazy in the old shell. I can't really imagine where you'd even begin!

[0a]

What a fantastic project; good luck!

[Kmoosa]

piscola90 said:

Yes, it's some engine alright - I must confess, I'm only the creative on this project - I'm letting a custom company handel the execution. I'm not sure on the spec of the CLS, I've not seen the car, it's being moved as we speak. The pics look more grey than black though.

That's the wood trim I currently have, not to worry, thanks anyway. Good luck with your project, that engine is certainly bonkers and your car will have just about enough shove in the back I reckon

[bob1179]

Looks like it will be an epic project!

I take it you'll be using the original ECU and loom etc. to control the engine and gearbox? I'm really interested to hear how you are planning to integrate the modern components and electronic gubbins into the old shell (instruments, lights etc.).

[piscola90]

Off she goes to meet her donor AMG

Edited by piscola90 on Wednesday 10th February 10:37

[BigBen]

piscola90 said:

I'm really pleased with the donor car, which is now purchased. Its a CLS with the AMG supercharged 5.5L. Stock is a bit shy of 500bhp, but it will be re-mapped regardless. Much for the CLS will be used for the build, but if you need anything from this car then let me know as its all for sale (seats, doors, glass, exhaust, lights etc etc).

I suspect you will be keeping it but if not the engine fan would be welcome....

[ZX10R NIN]

Nice project does your CLS have the space saver in the boot? If it does I'd be interested in buying it.

[piscola90]

im afraid the space saver is missing - and yes, we obviously need the engine, box, brakes etc for the conversion. The lights are sold now, but all the body panels and interior etc are still for sale.

[triple5]

Subscribed....great project.

[donkmeister]

Out of interest, what is the reason behind nitromors rather than getting the shell bead blasted or dipped? Obviously you know what you're doing, and I would love to do a full-on resto/mod one day.

[piscola90]

donkmeister said:

Out of interest, what is the reason behind nitromors rather than getting the shell bead blasted or dipped? Obviously you know what you're doing, and I would love to do a full-on resto/mod one day.

Really only because I wanted to experiment and see what it would look like without spending a lot. I media blasted the 190sl, and I'd highly recommend that. Never dip imo.