I just purchaced this 1972 280SEL yesterday and drove it over 300 miles to get it home

EBAY AUCTION

This is my second 1972 280SEL, the first one looks like this:

Pic album of the blue benz

AAAAnyway my questions on the new one are this:

Iis there any way to make the floor shifter less sloppy an prone to moving when you don't want it to?.

Is it normal that even though I have the floor shifter, the colum has the silver ring where the colum shifter would come from [that one has me confused].

What spark plugs should I use? air filter? oil filter? plug wires?....


I guess thats it for now