Nice writeup. Thanks. I did this years ago on my 300sd. Found rust. I actually had to rebuild missing material with new sheet metal because areas of my pinch weld were just gone. I recall using steel stick to rolling the badly destroyed areas in the corners. Then I pained with rust oleum brush on paint. Not optimal but it held.

Great detail that Gen 1&2 glass works. Does that include long wheelbase to short wheelbase too? Like 91 560SEL to 82 300SD?

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79 300TD “Old Smokey” AKA “The Mistake” (SOLD)
82 240D stick shift 335k miles (SOLD)
82 300SD 300k miles
85 300D Turbodiesel 170k miles
97 C280 147k miles