THANK YOU, Thank You, thank you! You did not ask how to REMOVE the phone. It has amazed me that people want to just rip out one of these phones and cut the wires.

In about 20 years, some enthusiast will come across a '99 CLK and be all excited because it still has the factory phone.

I'm sorry that I don't know how to adapt a digital phone. If I had the schematics and pinouts for the Startac cradle and for the analog phone, I'll bet I could fabricate an adapter that would plug in so that you could later retrofit the factory phone without wrecking it.

Any decent electronics person could accomplish this given the schematics, adapter and connector.

Good luck,