Hi,
I am considering to buy 220 cabrio that has a bad vinil interior. My wish is to put newer Mercedes leather interior with headrests in this classic. (My friend has several beautifull interiors from 300e, 420, which I can buy for $700 for entire interior) So would it be possible to put newer car interior into a classic car. Is heavy duty modification required or could it be home project for an enthusiast like myself? I know that the purists would be offended but I would like to have headrests and confortable seats.
Please help with your advice if you have experience.
Grateful in Oregon

If you're lucky, the new interior's door panels are always bigger than the old. But, what happens when the spacing between the window crank and the door handle is off by 2 inches. You can't fill in the extra hole.

The interior pieces for the door are stretched onto forms that present a shape. You might as well just get a real interior cut to the shape of the car rather than take one that isn't cut right and try and make it fit.

In short, it's not worth spending 700$ on a poor interior. You won't be saving that much money to have the cab interior set up correctly. Leather isn't all it's cracked up to be (sorry for the pun). A texahide or cloth interior is in many ways much superior to leather and cheaper too.

-CTH