when you put modern michelins on it and new bilsteins and if the suspension is in good fettle, it will ride and drive very comparably to your newer benz.

i dont have much advice specific to that model, but dont change it from the r12 freon.

good luck

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.