Photos of the day I moved her home last year

[Zymurgy]

I am getting together some photos for an album of my 300. Here are some that I never posted of the day I moved her home last year, after sitting in the same spot for 32 years.

 

[Fratzog]

Always good to see another one being saved. Congrats.

 

[Wollfen]

Now that you can see a before and after, you can actually tell the BIG difference from what it looked like when you got it to how it looks now, that's damned good work even if I am repeating myself

 

[Moparhead]

Love those! Cool car!!

 

[detmatt]

Those are some great pics Mike, you have done great things with that car in a years time.

 

[Zymurgy]

Thanks guys and I have enjoyed the journey. I was lucky to find such a solid car to work with. I have been in a really good mood lately and I realized that it is the anticipation of working on the 300. My exterior work is finished for the season the 300's interior will be finished, so finally she will be back in my shop.

 

[detmatt]

So what's next?

 

[polarus]

Great to see the early shots, outstanding work!

 

[Stormer]

Lucky girl! She didn't wanna just sit there.

 

[Zymurgy]

So what's next?

I have a few thing to reassemble, center console, wheel wells. I am going to have the power steering and transmission rebuilt. I might have a few things re-chromed on the interior, but I will probably hold off on that. I want to repaint the engine and engine bay and it would make sense to do that when I'm having the tranny rebuilt.

 

[detmatt]

Refresh my memory, what condition is the engine in? Ever been rebuilt? What's it look like under the hood?

 

[Zymurgy]

Refresh my memory, what condition is the engine in? Ever been rebuilt? What's it look like under the hood?

The engine has 63,000 runs strong and burns no oil. I put 1,000 miles this year and didn't use a drop. That would be my only hesitation of not pulling the engine and painting this year. I was originally going to wait until it needed rebuilt.

I'll post a picture of the engine bay tonight. Pretty rough right now. I painted the underside of the hood already, but have not touched anything else. I could just paint the air cleaner and valve covers and clean it up some more, but I wouldn' t be happy just going that far.

 

[Zymurgy]

Here is basically the current state of the engine bay.

 

[detmatt]

That doesn't look bad the way it is, Mike but with everything so fresh on the outside I can see why you'd want to restify it under there.

 

[commando1]

I'd clean the bejeezes out of it and be proud of the patina.
Paint the valve covers and air cleaner... that's it.

 

[commando1]

OH>>>
And the flex hose...

 

[detmatt]

That's what I did however I couldn't avoid painting the engine.

 

[vdk2010]

What is "bejeezes "?

 

[commando1]

When I do the head swap, the heads and intake get a squirt but that's it.

 

[commando1]

What is "bejeezes "?

It's stuff we have over here in America. We used to make all our own but now it all comes from China.
I tried the German ones but man they are expensive.