Dutch 230 SL Pagode 1965 restoration project

Hi Tobi,

Thank you for the tip of the soft top!
It's put in a cabinet and may stay there for a while before I can use it again. ;-)

 

Today I brought the Pagode to Germany, for complete blasting.

 

The renewal of the rubber parts of the rear axle seems sensible to me.

 

OK thank you! I will try to let it be renewed with the original leather indeed.

 

It gives a lot of satisfaction to make some parts shiny again.
But some parts really have to be renewed. ;D

 

Unfortunately I think it's not easy te let the vinyl be renewed, it has a very difficult shape.

 

I continued with disassembling of the front axle, a dirty job.

 

The steering wheel is partly finished.

 

After a lot of sanding, I filled the cracks with Milliput, that's an epoxy putty.
Then sanding in the right shape.
After spraying in the color (a found a color which came close to the original color, so no special), it's also sprayed in clear varnish.
My first impression is that it's not to smooth, it feels good.

 

The front axle is complete disassembled now.
I want to powder coat a lot of the parts.
Much cleaning has been done, but I still have to sort all the small parts.

 

I made several pictures of the part:

 

All these parts will get new chrome.
Still looking for some small chrome parts.

 

The parts of the front suspension have been powder coated and several new parts have arrived.
Finally I can build something.

 

The bolts, nuts and rings of the front suspension have been yellow passivated, what a difference!
I just started with rebuilding of the front suspension.