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Few thing I noticed.



1. The front bumper doesnt have the old bump stops and clean one piece.


Normal for a euro car. 72-73 US bumpers have the vertical bars.

2. Front bumper has built in washers? Cool!


Yes. That is normal with headlight wiper systems.

3. No front turn signals?



The Euro headlight amber lights are turn signals. Euro parking lights are little white bulbs in the headlight area.

4. Speaker adjustment on center console?



That’s the rear speaker fader.

5. Interesting door panels, two tone cloth!



Cloth is very common for euro cars.

6. Rear crank windows.



Interesting to me that euro cars often have power front and manual rear windows. Why? I’d want power for the rear, but maybe it keeps kids from playing with them. Who knows.

7. Wire wheels are complete and was quoted about $700 to refinish each wheel, can that be correct??



Rust on the wire wheels ruins them. It’s a shame.

8. Still have not determined the engine size.



M117 is 4.5. M116 is 3.5. The engine number is visible behind the head cover on the machine area of the block that is angled towards the brake booster. It’s pretty hard to see, usually requiring contortion, cleaning and lights.

9. Speedo is MPH but euro car?


Usually they get swapped out when federalize.

10. This will be a fun project.



Are you going to make it run right before parting it out?

11. I couldnt find if the headlights are adjustable yet?


I think a 1978 didn’t have vacuum adjustable headlights yet. They came along later.

Any advice or ideas is appreciated!



Make it run well. Clean it. Then decide. Looks like a good part out to me.

Edit... replace the hood and maybe it will look good. Hard to tell. Replace the wheels with something stock to solve that problem.

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Past mb: '73 450sl, '81 280slc stick, '71 250, '72 250c, '70 250c, '79 280sl, '73 450sl, parted: '75 240d stick, '69 280s, '73 450slc, '72 450sl,