Archive for March, 2010

Old School Cool

Dahtone Racing March 23rd, 2010

After being involved in the late model hi tech modified car scene for almost 10 Years we decided it was time to return to our roots, and build another old school Mercedes.

The car in question is a 1970 300SEL 3.5L V8. Only 9500 of these cars were built worldwide so they are quite rare these days.

The plans for the car is a complete ground up rebuild beginning with the undercarriage and working our way up.

Here is how the car was when we took delivery of it.

Workhorse

Dahtone Racing March 21st, 2010

Last year we purchased a Holden Crewman ute to use as a shop truck to cart parts around

The intention was to leave it standard and just drive it. Well that was the plan anyway, but it didn’t really work out too well.

After a bit of a brain storm session (only 6 days after buying it) our stock VY II crewman was stripped and prep work began for a custom paint job.

This is how it came up, coke red kandy fade to black with marbleised flames under the kandy.