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Old 06-19-2006, 10:28 AM
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Introducing myself and my 1974 280C

Hello everyone,
Just introducing myself and my newly bought '74 280C. Bought it and made a 3.5 hour trip back to my homebase. Ran a bit hot, probably need a radiator flush (not that the 93 degree day helped any). Here are some pics, enjoy.

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Nathan

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Old 06-19-2006, 02:35 PM
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she s a beaut
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Old 06-19-2006, 02:41 PM
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evil servo's and radiator flushes

careful on flushing the radiator if it has the evil servo ,the plastic and gaskets wont like any foriegn chemicals,best to take the radiator out to a shop to be cleaned ,and just flush with water after reinstall.Its happened to me on a 79 300td. The servos are priced like gold and have few remedies beside total replacement.Heard your only to use a certain radiator fluid to ,a type of zerex brand .
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Old 06-19-2006, 03:47 PM
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sure is swell.
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Old 06-19-2006, 03:53 PM
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careful on flushing the radiator if it has the evil servo ,the plastic and gaskets wont like any foriegn chemicals,best to take the radiator out to a shop to be cleaned ,and just flush with water after reinstall.Its happened to me on a 79 300td. The servos are priced like gold and have few remedies beside total replacement.Heard your only to use a certain radiator fluid to ,a type of zerex brand .
Thanks, I'll check into that. I was either going to romove the radiator and take it to a shop or drive it there. I'll see if I can find any documentation on what fluid to run.
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Old 06-19-2006, 08:49 PM
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looks nice. probably was the light color all over to begin with.

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Keep pictures like these coming

It will keep me on the idea of bringing my UK 71 250CE from England and restore it.

Beautiful
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Old 06-19-2006, 10:33 PM
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Outstanding two-tone color scheme, makes the car look lower and longer. How in the world did you get corner vent windows on the '74? Were coupes the last hold outs for this feature?
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Old 06-19-2006, 11:28 PM
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Color Scheme

Beautiful car. Both those colors are period Mercedes Colors. I'd like to know if that scheme is original. Do you have the paint code?

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Old 06-20-2006, 05:55 AM
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i am betting not original.

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Old 06-20-2006, 09:20 AM
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The wife of the original owner said it was repainted in the original colors. I have some cans of paint from the redo, but it's just dupont paint. I don't have the window sticker to be sure, and I don't know why someone would think to do a repaint in this combo (even though it looks cool).

The front triangle window on my car doesn't open, if that's the window you are refering to. (sorry new to the whole MB thing).

I can't wait to get into the car and get everything fully sorted. Still in really good shape since it was a one-owner car with 116k miles on it and garage kept.
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Old 06-20-2006, 02:14 PM
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Reminds me of the new bmw coopers paint scheme,two tone ,roof then body
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careful on flushing the radiator if it has the evil servo ,the plastic and gaskets wont like any foriegn chemicals,best to take the radiator out to a shop to be cleaned ,and just flush with water after reinstall.Its happened to me on a 79 300td. The servos are priced like gold and have few remedies beside total replacement.Heard your only to use a certain radiator fluid to ,a type of zerex brand .
Fortunately, the W114s don’t have the automatic climate control. Just a straight forward pair of valves on the fire wall for driver and passenger.

I lost the water pump and the thermostatic fan clutch was weak on my ’71 250C. Replacing both brought the temp to 175 nearly all the time.


BTW, very nice looking car.

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Old 06-20-2006, 02:38 PM
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Climate control

I'm not sure if the climate control is more evil then the Heater motor on a
W114.

I plan on rebuilding my W114 when I bring it here, but i'll leave the heater motor well alone.
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Old 06-20-2006, 02:41 PM
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Outstanding two-tone color scheme, makes the car look lower and longer. How in the world did you get corner vent windows on the '74? Were coupes the last hold outs for this feature?
He's got the in-between version. My ’71 coupe still has working windows, they went to the big mirrors mounted in the wing window glass at some point then to the full window with clipped corner by ’76 as my ’76 280C had that version.

Michael


PS, the Coupes do have a lower roof, as well as lower seats. The missus doesn't like driving the 250C much as she can't see over the hood as well as in the 450 SEL.

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