Awesome project love the photos and love I will be getting a care box!
I too would have gone with the brown guy, probably because he matches mine
but your right the rust would mean a lot of cutting and welding....just not worth it for the color...when you can get the white one sprayed...
I would like to see the inside of the brown guy. I see there is a fender mounted antenna so that guy was ordered with a radio, mine was radio delete and if I install a radio I want it to be installed like a euro...so i will stop beating around the bush, I would also be interested in the radio and antenna if the are original....would also like to see how the antenna is mounted to copy it.
Does the brown guy have cloth interior? I would switch that over too...
Heres a link to factor color options....see if you can find one that you like and it would be a mercedes correct color change
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