Mercedes Unimog Custom Fabrication: Part 5 Final Results Delivery of the Unimog is complete! Here's the final product delivered and after our work was done, onto paint/graphics and assembly, undertook by Couch Engineering. Check out the final car restoration result... Read More...
Mercedes Unimog Custom Fabrication: Part 4 Car restoration: Mercedes Unimog Custom Fabrication (Part4) This post is Part Four of the build of this Mercedes UNIMOG, in case you want to see the rest: Part One of Car restoration shows photos of the Unimo... Read More...
Mercedes Unimog Custom Fabrication: Part 3 This car restoration post is a follow on to the introduction of this Mercedes UNIMOG, Part One shows photos of the unimog at delivery, and photos of the first stages of Module 2 fabrication. Part Two covers t... Read More...
Mercedes Unimog Custom Fabrication: Part 2 This car restoration post is a follow on to the introduction to this Mercedes UNIMOG, Post One shows photos of the unimog at delivery, and photos of the first stages of Module 2 fabrication. Our initial plan... Read More...
Mercedes Unimog Custom Fabrication: Part 1 The Mercedes-Benz UNIMOG is a four-wheel-drive, all-terrain vehicle. Unimogs have very high ground clearance made possible by portal gears that allow the axles and transmission to be higher than the tires' cen... Read More...
1957 Mercedes 300SL front end restoration: Part 5 Eyebrow Trim Creation and Paint This is Part 5 of a series of posts on the automotive restoration of this 1957 Mercedes 300SL. Part 2 showed all the pieces we made in Part 1 TIG welded together and metal finished to make one headlight housin... Read More...
1957 Mercedes 300SL front end restoration: Part 4 Fender and Headlight Rebuild This is Part 4 of a series of posts on the automotive restoration of this 1957 Mercedes 300SL. Part 2 showed all the pieces we made in Part 1 TIG welded together and metal finished to make one headlight housin... Read More...
1957 Mercedes 300SL front end restoration: Part 3 Fitting New Headlight to Body and Gullwing Templates This is Part 3 of a series of posts on the automotive restoration of this 1957 Mercedes 300SL. Part 2 showed all the pieces we made in Part 1 TIG welded together and metal finished to make one headlight housi... Read More...
1957 Mercedes 300SL front end restoration: Part 2 Headlight Housing Welded and Metal Finished Basically this post shows all the pieces we made in Part 1 TIG welded together and metal finished to make one headlight housing piece to now offer up to the body as one unit. From here we will mark, cut, and T... Read More...
1957 Mercedes 300SL front end restoration: Part 1 Metal Shaping New Headlight A 1957 Mercedes 300SL was the first project for The Metal Surgeon upon arrival in Denver Colorado. Classic Restoration of Englewood, CO had contacted me 6 months prior to starting this project as for my help o... Read More...