In November we start with the restoration of a Mercedes W113 Pagoda. Stay tuned...
On it's way to our workshop...
The factory color for this car was Papyrus Weiss. Later in it's life it was repainted in Ruby Red. We are going to change this back to original, after the welding process.
When the car arrives we will start disassembling. After this we will manufacture a frame for the car to stabilize it during the welding process. We will replace the main sills, all floor panels, the backside panel of the car and the trunk floor.
The car has arrived...
We start disassembling the car...
After the car has bees disassembled completely, we start making a frame to support the car during the welding process. This frame can adjust the cars position to keep it level.
Although the car looks nice at first glimpse, a closer inspection reveals severe rust damage, and sheet metal repairs using rivets instead of spotwelds. Of course we will replace all damaged metal parts using the factory original spotwelds.
The car in the past also was repainted into Ruby-red. We will bring the car back to it's factory original color "Papyrus Weiss". The whole car will be stripped to bare metal, and will be repainted with the original Glasurit paint system.
Now that all rusted parts on the left side of the car are cut out, we repare the surrounding area's of the main sill.
Then we prepare the left sill (drilling spotweld holes, weld-inn the jackstands, and paint the inside with zink-epoxy primer). Next we weld inn the left sill, taking good attention to the correct fit.
In the next step of the restoration process we will prepare the welding of the left floor panels. We start with replacing the bulkhead floor panel, repairs to the bulkhead and its parts, and move on to the left front inner wing. We notice that the inner wings and the top sills of the inner wings are attached with rivets and few very bad welds. Even the shockabsorber mounting parts are attached with rivets and bad welds. Of course we take these parts out, repare them where needed, make all parts to measure, and weld in correctly.
Inspection of the backside op the car shows that the rear fenders where replaced in the past, but unfortunately not correct as well. Because of the mistakes made, the side trim does not align, the door gap is not correct, the wheel arches do not correspond with the outer fender alignment, the welds are wrong and look horrable with sharp edges along the wheel arches, the wheel arches are heavily corroded, as is the rear panel of the car. We carefully take out the rear side panels to be able to re-use these (original Mercedes parts). We cut out the rear panel, the wheel arches and the left trunk support sill. We make repairs to all the surrounding parts to be able to install the fenders, new wheel arches and the new rear panel correctly. We make sure that the alignment of the wheel arches on the fenders, and the door- and trunklid gaps are correct.
Next we install the new left floor panels.
