Hello All,
Just to update everyone, a few weeks ago I posted a question about steering mount bolt problems on my 114 body / 250 sedan. I'm happy to report that I have installed a 6"X10"by 1/4"thick steel plate with six 10MM
bolts, 3 in the steering box and 3 into anchor plates inside the frame rail. So far no steering box movement and the steering seems much more precise now. Lets see it try to bend that 1/4" plate!
Last month, while the steering repairs were in progress, I acquired another Mercedes. An elderly friend, whom I had helped out in the past with her car problems, passed away and left me her car, a 1960 220S Finback. She purchased this car new in Italy, was 81 and still driving this car regularly (With stickshift and manual steering!). The bad news is that the car was parked outside for the last 20 - 25 years so the body and chrome suffered. The good news is that she spent a small fortune on mechanical repairs (But not with me!) so the car is an excellent driver.
I've started patching rustholes, replaced a brake hose and fitted a vintage Becker-Wonder Bar tube radio. After replacing the motor mounts it's uncanny how, at traffic lights I can't even tell the engine is running - it's so smooth!
This months question is; Has anyone ever fitted seatbelts to one of these early cars? Specifically, I want to fit shoulder belts to the front seats and there are no anchor points in the door pillars. The cavity inside the upper pillar is only 7/8" wide and the belts require a 7/16" fine thread anchor bolt
which leaves about 3/16" on either side of the anchor bolt for a reinforcing plate. Or I can try to fabricate an anchor from a solid 7/8" square steel bar, with a 7/16" fine thread tapped into it.
Thanks in advance and Happy Motoring,
Mark DiSilvestro

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