Hey Guys,

I just bought a 1965 200D. The shifter is a little wacky, and I have a hard time finding gears... A couple of times, I’ll be starting out in third from a dead stop and almost stall, or I’ll pull the shift lever too far back and find reverse... I don’t think it’s the unfamiliarity of a column shifter, but more likely that the shifter itself is getting sloppy... I’ve seen videos of people driving these cars on YouTube where the gear lever seems to spring backwards towards third or fourth gear after shifting to neutral from first or second (as a floor shifter would spring towards the right when shifted into neutral...). I’m thinking the shift mechanism somehow needs to be rebuilt. If that’s the case, how does one go about this? Where can one find the parts? I want to get my W110 driving the way it should!

Thank you guys,

Nick O.