Barn find!

[tompaah7503]

A friend of mine was selling a patch of land (about 60 acres) and an older farm that resides on it. What did he find in one of the barns, if not a nice W108 (280SE)! It had sat there for 20-odd years, has some rear end damage but otherwise it's complete and .. RUST-FREE! (I'd suspect most of you haven't been in Sweden but finding a 20 year old car here, without rust, is to be considered a MIRACLE). Now comes the best part, I got it for free..!

I'll strip this car of everything usable (doors, front fenders, trunk lid, all chrome parts, interior) and swap them on my quite rusty W108 300D.
Have had thoughts about painting the 300D black, what do you think? It's a real classy color on the W108's.

Pictured below with the trusty Mercedes transporter we have at the shop.