I know I know, its not a minitruck but what do ya think?

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by crzyone1013I saw that benz on youtube. I think its for sale now too. I don't really care for the fin tail the older ones had but its still a cool car. how hard was it to bag? did it lay at all? On youtube it looked like it did lay flat but I guess not unless some work was done after this pic. what size bags did ya use? I want it to ride like stock or better and lay out or close to it but I prefer flat out.--------------------------------------------- It probably was on youtube, I'm not sure though. I basically just built bag cups. It had RE5 bags all around, because that's what they brought me. All I did was the labor, they wired and plumbed it, and bought the parts. With a little more cutting up front you could fit an RE6, and out back an RE6 would just bolt in. I basically just plated the lower arms front and rear, and built cups for the top.  It doesn't lay, it just gets close. The front crossmember is like an inch off the ground, and the exhaust was on the ground. If the arms where stepped it could lay, but the arms hit the frame where it's at.  The back is like 3 inches from laying. The axle is on the frame. They didn't want to pay to do anything more than cups. But if it was notched, and a small amoutn of floor work it would have laid flat.  The guys where odd to me. They seemed really into it, but they where really cheap. Later I found out why. They told me they had about $4k in the car after I worked on it, including the purchase. They where trying to sell it on CL for $11k OBO. Last I saw they had it down to $8K. It rode okay. They where too cheap to buy more than 2 manifold valves, so it had a ton of body roll and it felt really sloppy. But if you drove it really low it was soft enough. I've seen them around town a few times, it's always donked out.

Here's the video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUAlspaFfgo

11 grand. damn. so re5s up front and re6 out back? sounds good to me. how much to make the re6 fit up front? do ya have any pics of the build? would you be able to do another set of cups without the car there? if so, how much? oh and around here where I am at there are no benz cars like mine, I haven't seen any befroe the early 80s models so.. I guess I should have gone out to texas or something. I have a quite a bit more than 400 in my benz but I can't disclose that figure. I know it appraised for 3000. did the 63 have the dual exhaust on it seth? mine does with two mufflers so one of them can go so there is more room.

It would be a decent amount of cutting to make an RE6 fit. I just trimmed the spring pocket to get the 5" to fit. The stock springs are like 3.5" diameter, so a lot of the pocket would need to be removed, and some reinforcement done. If it where mine, I would have done it that way. I don't really remember how I did the bag cups, so I couldn't really build more. And I don't have any pictures. I didn't think it was worth taking any since I basically just built cups and bolted them in. I plated the lower arm in the front because the opening was too small for a bag, and was an odd shape for a cup.

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by SoloSpecialtiesTebaggin on here had a raw metal one,surper tight lol. we got an 76 or 86 240D that were gonna start on pretty soon. all original with a perfect runnin 4cyl diesel..only replace a few fuel lines so far. it looks somewhat like the one seth posted,but blue and dark windows. and damn John..that is ganster as shit,when did you have that..i think i have seen it at some shows.--------------------------------------------- hey I checked online and I can't find anything like what I have so My car isn't anything like yours that you are about to do so I can see why you got yours so cheap, those body style cars are common and cheap but not mine. not trying to ba an ass, just checking on how hard they are to come by. I even checked on autotrader and the cheapest one with my body style was 4500 and its in the same shape as mine and they just went up from there to around 14k. there is a guy with a benz like the one you are doing around here for sale for 500 and all it needs is a transmission.

---------------------------------------------Originally posted by spraybomb^  Thats gangsta!!! ^---------------------------------------------

 ditto

I keep trying to get the downundertruckin site to work and get nowhere. anybody else have any luck with it? I really want to see a few of these cars done since they are popular overseas. this is aggervating(?). can anybody else try and see what they can find? I guess I will be going with re5s up front and probably the same out back sinc lift isn't going to be a big issue and I don't want it to ride crappy. I know a bigger bag would be better for the front but since there isn't room I guess that isn't an option. hey seth, what did it take to lift the front to ride height? was it enough to make the spring stiff? I want to be able to lift the car to ride height with under 100psi and I am going to keep shocks so what would be a good solution? hydraulics would be a heavy solution but I don't want to go that route so that isn't an option since they take up so much space, are so damn heavy, and you can't exactly duct tape a hose to limp home if you have to.

very awesome!

thanks for all the comments. I took it out for a drive today since I changed the transmission filter and found out the hard way that my fuel gaugedoesn't work right. I almost didn't make it to a gas station before it died on me. and aparently at some point somebody put an inline fuel pump on the car and I discovered it today. the car is ungodly slow and Im thinking that pump may be the culprit but the transmission needed a change and the shift cable needs adjusted too. this car needs a bit of work still to be a daily but I will get it. I am having trouble getting the door panels off though. and there are a line of storms headed my way too so that sucks. the pass rear window only goes to about 1.5" from the top of the frame to seal the car and the gaer or track is stripped out so I am in a predicament here with rain on the way and no room in the garage. guess I will be needing a tarp. tommrow I am going to get one of the two speedometer cables hooked up so I know exactly how slow this damn car is. I also have an oil change, tune up and power steering fluid change planned soon. the power steering fluid is so old and worn out it looks like brown water. this car is turning out to be a project in the making. hopefully nothing important breaks on me anytime soon since everything for this car is special order online and I can only get a select few parts at the parts stores. I may end up having to special order the oil filter too since its a cartridge. I guess all I can do is press on.

Edited: 5/3/2009 11:02:07 AM by crzyone1013

Edited: 4/29/2009 8:14:04 PM by crzyone1013well I guess I am going to have to put my benz up for sale. Had a new problem come up and now the benz has to go.  damn it sucks being broke. I guess I will have to get another one if I can find one when I get some money back up. But since I have a son that will be here in a few days and a car broken down on me now I don't have much choice but to get rid of the benz. damnit, and its a cool car too.