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In search of material for the community, I accidentally stumbled upon a blog in which the author described how he created the car. This was not just some kind of car, but a legend car with an interesting story - Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing". I became interested in the recreation history of the automotive raritet and plunged into a fascinating story about how from scratch did a copy of the legendary car, and not just a copy, and the car collected from the original spare parts.
Later I managed to meet with Sergey, who embodied his dream to life and learn some details of the creation of a car. He allowed me to take text and photos from his blog and make a post for community readers.

In the process of creating Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing" was used by the suspension from the Mercedes W202 and W107. I remember that the best - the enemy is good put adjustable shock absorbers. Special attention It is worth turning to the rear axle reducer, usually the biggest problems arise exactly with it, which is why customizers like not split bridges. On Mercedes, this node together with the drives is assembled on the subframe, which greatly simplifies work with it.

Graduation system stainless steel complies with Euro 3 standard, and fuel tank - This work of art: so that the fuel does not splash, partitions and overflow tubes are installed in it. In one of the photos - locking power lock

In the project "Gullwing" it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and with a capacity of 220 hp. In a pair with automatic 5-speed transmission. The engine selection was not accidental - it is more powerful, easier and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a hydrotransformer, many of these aggregates are familiar to Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic was also installed, all the units are new, so there should be no problems.

Making body.

In 1955, Daimler Benz released 20 cars with aluminum body and 1 with composite. We decided to try the composite.

After the manufacture of the body and the chassis assembly begins the bumping of the body with the frame. The process is so painstaking and vigorous that no photos and words will not be passed. Assembly and disassembly, fit - all this takes not one day. Many details are being finalized in place, and the body is attached to the frame through special demphirs by bolts in 30 places.

All body parts are installed and customized - doors, hood, trunk lid. A lot of hassle with glasses - they are attached to rubber seals, and since all the original seals are designed for steel, then it is necessary to strictly observe the thickness of the opening frames. Each detail is removed, manually adjusted and only then installed in place.

Many details on the most sought-after rare models still produce small-sector in some workshops than all restorers are actively used. Yes, what is sin there: the plants themselves fake their rarities, especially in this succeeded by "Audi" and "Mercedes".

Many museums have candid copies. So lately, "chorchov" was very much broken. This is especially interesting, given that all the factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years stamps fakes, issuing them for carefully restored products. The devil lies in the details.

So we just bought and collected all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every wren and bolt, (I'm not talking about gum) have the correct marking of 1955. Original all, even salad seats.

Already the body is closed, and this is the highest moment, for the composite is a special material in painting, because there are plasticizers and all sorts of other complex pieces. Primer secrets protect and no one will ever tell you. But it looks beautiful.

Small video from the painting process

In the meantime, the body is painted, we will make the preparation of nodes to the assembly. As I said, the Devil lies in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand in the car! DashboardShe was looking for a very long time.

Toppers and relays also find, not all of course it turns out right away.

But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a completely authentic instrument panel consisting of 80 (!) Details.

The main thing is that it is later and earned: the instructors are all expensive. Cheap does not happen well.

The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be a film under chrome. Yes, Shagrena is necessarily, well, and grain so that it was petty. Now it is no longer paint, everything is diluted with water, they have the ecology, the nature will be guarded. By the way, the paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult for painting, any painter will tell you.

Finally married the chassis with the body.

Installed doors. It would seem that the matter is not cunning, but I want to tell you one story. Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing" had many constructive flaws. One of them was actually the doors: they were steel, heavy and mounted loops to the roof of the body, and fixed the spring concluded between the hollow steel tubes with hinges at the end.

In the extreme upper position, the spring was compressed, and when lowering the door, the door slammed the door with the roar. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the springs resistance, which simply pulled the door along with the brackets (900 euros per piece).

The experienced owners "Gullwing" know that with imperative use it will inevitably lead to the deformation of the roof, besides, the brackets themselves simply break. Spring rod assembly with time became a mad deficit and its cost increased to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these nodes once a season. We decided to go to another way and put gas shock absorbers.

It would seem that it was easier, but it was not there. I had to develop a node entirely, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately, there was a workshop that embodied ideas and drawings into life. With full external authenticity, the doors today open as the rear fifth door from the German SUV. The node turned out so successful that he immediately became the subject of the desire of all the owners of the rarities, I think that all the "Gulving" will be very effective and smoothly, without a knock on the opening doors. Now this process really has become similar to the wing of the seagull - graceful and smoothly.
This is only one, and the simplest example of those tasks that had to be solved when building this car.

By the way, the door lock mechanism also has been changed. Despite the cost of 1,500 euros, he very often drove and did not fix the door, but this is another story.

At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that the interior decoration was the smallest problem, the benefit on every step workshops on the stirring salons, so that, and with the skin now any master will cope. Business things - shelter a bunch of skin details, but as it turned out, it is a huge problem!
After four attempts to create details of the interior in the tuning studio, I understood: everything is much more difficult.

Created products, well, did not want to look at the original. Everything looked cheap fake: the skin was sharpened, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not coincide, and no one could choose the material. In short, he began to delve into subtleties and found out that modern masters did not know how to work with felt, wool and other materials used at the time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, the foam rubber was used everywhere, where they could, actively worked as an iron, in short, they mercilessly destroyed the materials, damping their naturalness and nobility. I'm not talking about durability.

Walking for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have a paracloth special and felt. In general, they found a company, guys - wolves, units, years near 60, which for 40 years restore only Mercedes. The fact that they showed us and ripped is just a novel about the skin, and they protect their secrets about the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar.

On video approximate move process.

Details of the interior on my kid did 4 months. The skin is just like a living.

I will also add that the skin that manufacturers are offered today are a chemical bull with impregnation. No wonder all the owners of Mercedes and BMW after the year of operation are awesome - the salons look like an old redroad: not fresh, the skin is drawn up, seals. As I said earlier - the devil lies in the details.

I'm not talking about vinyls, widely used by the Japanese, and all manufacturers in principle. Now in the Mercedes of the skin and the jacket is not enough, one fuflo, therefore, the options appear - "estate", "individual", "exclusive". Leading manufacturers, at least for 10-15 thousand dollars, you will be given real skin, and the fact that you sew for 50 thousand rubles even the skin does not turn to call.

Wheels - one of the important details of the car. So for our handsome there were two types of wheels. The first were put on the civil version.

The second were offered as an option. They came from sports - real, with a central nut. Of course, it is beautiful to have chrome wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying.

How then will die with a hammer on the nut, knowing that she is golden? Original disc For the classics, too, no cheap - 3 thousand euros. So I think it hurts 8 thousand euros to save.

One of the main factors of the engine work is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to remember the laws of thermodynamics here, I will only say that the last 150 years exhaust pipe It is a symbol of progress. Remember the locomotive pipes, steamboats, domain. I remember my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that the closest attention was paid. This is a masterpiece of engineering thought.

The graduation system is made of stainless steel, which is not a single manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of pushed and thin-walled pipes mounted one to another, this allowed for complete authenticity external view Pipes solve the problem of "Gulving" - noise and heating of the cabin. Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved using the resonators installed inside the system.

Want to understand what you have a car - look at the exhaust pipe!

At the date on the photo, do not pay attention, just bought a decent fotik. I was deleted, only the instruction did not understand the same date. Well, yes hell with him, everyone interested is selling.

Made a lot of changes in the design, we try to make everything authentic as possible. Very tricky handbrake.

With a tank, a separate song, made one of the stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story.

There is a good saying - it is better to see once than a hundred times to read about it. All who read and watch my blog know my favorite expression - the devil lies in the details. It is these details that I'll show you today. It makes no sense to write for a long time, you will understand everything yourself.

The harnesses and wiring in the braid, well, that I think you just have not yet seen, two-tone claxson, in short, just look, all this is called technology.

The main task of the project that standing before the implementation was the creation of the complete authenticity of all the details of the interior. It would seem that it may be easier to copy the existing sample, but as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than restoration.

So, we needed to make all analog devices work, and work correctly with electronic blocks modern aggregates; Till a close car a bunch additional equipment, such as air conditioning, hydraulicel, brake amplifier. All this should work from full-time togglers and switches. The furnace of the stoves used to have mechanical drives, as on the Volga GAZ 21, therefore had to thoroughly remake the stove. But the largest problem was the manufacture of gear gear selector.

All the difficulty was that the car was initially built for sports, was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed under the tilt of 30 degrees, so that the silhouette of the machine does not violate. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct hinge drive.

There was no more than 2 cm between the box and the box itself. free space. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, it was necessary to solve this problem. Since the standard pair of the engine-box was taken, the task became even more difficult, because automatic box Much more in size and has a completely different management principle.

After a long torment, the hinge and the system was designed, which allowed to completely simulate this node, which is easy to make sure to look at the original.

Well, the most interesting thing: if you carefully read the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, it is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so close that a man with an increase of 180 cm. Rejected his head into the roof and was forced to sit hunched at the helm, I love to ride straight hands, because I had to change the angle of inclination of the steering column to ensure comfort and not Violate a general view. How it was achieved - this is a whole novel, starting with the manufacture of unique salazzo and ending the alteration of the floor and seats.

I'm not the first who decided to recreate legendary car. Even at the end of the 70s, such attempts were made in America, Tony Ostermaer, the former mechanic engineer from Gardena, was advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years with the use of aggregates from Mercedes for those years. Today, these cars themselves are raritets.

I saw them, of course, this is not such high-quality products as I would like, but this is the best thing that was done. In the 90s, there were attempts to the American company "Speedster" using the Tony matrix implant it on the "Chevrolet Corvette Corvette" nodes. A total of 2 cars were made. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. Machines were sold at 150 thousand $.

Actually it's all. True, there were attempts to wear shell on SL and many more loud statements, but all this PSHIC, people fled ahead of the locomotive, as with our e-mobile: there is nothing yet, but already 40 thousand applications have been filed.

By the way, work with the composite is very complex. Only his high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, most importantly: to fake and copy is two big differences.

It is said that in the car everything should be fine, both the motor and the trunk. On the first car, gas shock absorbers decided to open and fix the trunk lid.

We have a little converted the fuel neck, reasonably counting that if it is hermetically sealed to the lid of the trunk. This will reduce the risk of spreading the smell of gasoline inside the cabin in the case of its strait.

I did not like the idea. This car was closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (steel funnel around the lid should prevent the fuel strait on the carpet).

Of course, without a collective farm it did not cost: the leather gondon was built around the filler neck. It seems that it looks beautiful, and abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) of fixing the trunk lid. It was certainly possible to freeze with springs as on modern machinesBut it seems to me that it will kill the spirit of the car. It looks very nice the trunk in the open state.

Yes, and very cool everything looks. Considering that today everything is already used articular tires, they decided to free up the place, placing the recharge in the trunk instead of a regular wheel. Now although there is anyway to leave.

Actually, it is inexorably moving towards its logical conclusion. Of course, it's nice that everything ends so quickly, it remains to acknowledge a member and pour wheels.

Wheels are temporary not to treat the original.

That's basically it!

Go around the car.

One can only add: before you start something to do, think carefully, whether you have enough strength to bring the started to the end.

After arriving in Russia.

Video from the inside of the recreated car.

In this video, you can see how the Germans restore the hero of the report, the very "gullving".

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In search of the material for the community kak_eto_sdelano. I accidentally stumbled upon a blog in which the author described how he created the car. It was not just some kind of car, but a legend car with an interesting story - Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing". I became interested in the recreation history of the car raritet and plunged into a fascinating story about how from scratch did a copy of the legendary car, and not just a copy, and the car collected from the original spare parts.

Later I managed to meet Sergey, who embodied my dream of life, and learn some details of the creation of a car. He allowed me to take text and photos from his blog and make a post for community readers.

(Total 90 photos + 5 video)

1. In the process of creating a Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing", the suspension from Mercedes W202 and W107 was used. Remembering that the best - the enemy is good, we put adjustable shock absorbers. Special attention should be paid to the rear axle reducer, usually it is with him the biggest problems arise, which is why customizers like the continuous bridges so much. On Mercedes, this node together with the drives is assembled on the subframe, which greatly simplifies work with him.

5. The exhaust system of stainless steel complies with the EURO-3 standard, and the fuel tank is a real work of art: so that the fuel does not splash out, partitions and overflow tubes are installed in it. In one of the photos - locking the steering wheel lock.

10. In the Gullwing project, it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and with a capacity of 220 hp. In a pair with automatic 5-speed transmission. The choice of the engine was incredible - it is more powerful, easier and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a torque converter, many of these aggregates are familiar with Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic was also installed, all the units are new, so there should be no problems.

12. Making body.

13. In the distance 1955, Daimler-Benz released 20 cars with aluminum body and one with composite. We decided to try the composite.

15. After the manufacture of the body and the chassis assembly begins the bumping of the body with the frame. The process is so painstaking and vigorous that no photos and words will not be passed. Assembly and disassembly, fit - all this takes not one day. Many details are being finalized in place, and the body is attached to the frame through special dampers bolts in 30 places.

16. All body parts are installed and customized - doors, hood, trunk lid. A lot of hassle with glasses - they are attached to rubber seals, and since all the original seals are designed for steel, then it is necessary to strictly observe the thickness of the opening frames. Each detail is removed, manually adjusted and only then installed in place.

24. Many details on the most popular rare models still produce small-sector in some workshops than all restorers are actively used. Yes, what is sin there: the plants themselves fake their rarities, especially in this succeeded by Audi and Mercedes.

25. Many museums have candid copies. So, recently, "chorchov" was very much. This is especially interesting, considering that all the factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years stamps fakes, issuing them for carefully restored products. The devil lies in the details.

26. So we just bought and gathered all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every wrench and bolt (I'm not talking about gum) have the correct marking of 1955. Original all, even salad seats.

27. Now the body is closed, and this is the highest moment, for the composite is a special material in painting, because there are plasticizers and all sorts of other complex pieces. The secrets of the primer will be guarded, and no one will ever tell you. But it looks beautiful.

Small video from the painting process

31. Well, while the body is painted, we will deal with the preparation of nodes to the assembly. As I said, the Devil lies in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand in the car! Dashboard, I was looking for a very long time.

32. Tigs and relays also find, not everything, of course, it turns out right away.

33. But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a fully authentic instrument panel consisting of 80 (!) Details.

34. The main thing is that it is later and earned: the instructors are all expensive. Cheap does not happen well.

36. The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be filled under chrome. Yes, Shagrena is necessarily, well, and grain so that it was petty. Now it is no longer paint, everything is diluted with water, they have the ecology, the nature will be guarded. By the way, the paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult for painting, any painter will tell you.

41. Finally got married the chassis with the body.

45. Installed doors. It would seem, the case is simple, but I want to tell you one story. Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing" had many constructive flaws. One of them was actually the doors: they were steel, heavy and mounted loops to the roof of the body, and fixed the spring concluded between the hollow steel tubes with hinges at the end.

In the extreme upper position, the spring was compressed, and when lowering the door, stretching, the door slammed the door with the roar. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the springs resistance, which simply pulled the door along with the brackets (900 euros per piece).

The experienced owners "Gullwing" know that with imperative use, it will inevitably lead to the deformation of the roof, besides the brackets themselves simply break. Spring rod assembly with time became a mad deficit and its cost increased to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these nodes once a season. We decided to go to another way and put gas shock absorbers.

46. \u200b\u200bIt would seem that it was easier, but it was not there. I had to develop a node entirely, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately found a workshop that embodied ideas and drawings to life. With the full external authenticity of the door today open as the rear fifth door from the German SUV. The node turned out so successful that he immediately became the subject of the desire of all the owners of the rarities, I think that all the "Gulving" will have very spectacularly and smoothly, the doors open without knocking. Now this process really has become similar to the wing of the seagull - graceful and smoothly.

This is only one, and the simplest, example of those tasks that I had to decide when building this car.

47. By the way, the mechanism of the door lock is also subject to change. Despite the cost of 1500 euros, he very often drove and did not record the door, but this is another story.

49. At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that the interior decoration was the smallest problem, good at every step workshops on the stirring salons, so what, and with the skin now any master will cope. Business things - shelter a bunch of skin details, but, as it turned out, this is a huge problem! After four attempts to create details of the interior in the tuning atelier, I understood: everything is much more difficult.

Created products, well, did not want to look at the original. Everything looked cheap fake: the skin was sharpened, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not coincide, and no one could choose the material. In short, he began to delve into subtleties and found out that modern masters did not know how to work with felt, wool and other materials used at the time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, the foam rubber was used everywhere, where they could, actively worked as an iron, in short, they mercilessly destroyed materials, damping their naturalness and nobility. I'm talking about durability and not saying.

Walking for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have a special foam rubber, and felt. In general, found a company, guys - wolves, uncle years near 60, which for 40 years have been restored only Mercedes. What they have shown and told us is just a novel about the skin, and they protect their secrets about the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar.

On the video approximate course of the process.

50. Details of the interior on my kid did 4 months. The skin is just like a living.

51. I will also add that the skin that manufacturers are offered today are a chemical bull with impregnation. No wonder all owners of Mercedes and BMW after the year of exploitation are awesome - the salons look like an antique Redvan: not fresh, the skin is drawn up, seals. As I said earlier - the devil lies in the details.

52. I'm not talking about vinyls, widely used by the Japanese, and all manufacturers in principle. Now in the Mercedes of the skin and the jacket is not enough, one fuflo, therefore, the options - "estate", "individual", "exclusive" appear. Leading manufacturers at least for 10-15 thousand dollars you will be given real skin, and the fact that you sew for 50 thousand rubles, even the skin does not turn the language to call.

54. Wheels - one of the important parts of the car. So for our handsome there were two types of wheels. The first were put on the civil version.

55. The latter was offered as an option. They came from sports - real, with a central nut. Of course, it is beautifully chromed wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying.

56. How then will die with a hammer on the nut, knowing that she is golden? The original disc for the classics is also not affordable - 3 thousand euros. So I think it hurts 8 thousand euros to save.

57. One of the main factors of the engine work is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to remember the laws of thermodynamics here, I will only say that the last 150 years exhaust pipe is a symbol of progress. Remember the locomotive pipes, steamboats, domain. I remember my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that the closest attention was paid. This is a masterpiece of engineering thought.

The graduation system is made of stainless steel, no manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of thick-walled and thin-walled pipes mounted one to another, this allowed the external appearance of the pipe to solve the "Gulving" problem - noise and heating of the cabin. . Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved using the resonators installed inside the system.

Want to understand what car you have - look at the exhaust pipe!

At the date on the photo, do not pay attention, just bought a decent fotik. I've been departed, only with the instructions did not understand, it turned out not the date. Well, hell with him, everyone interested - enjoy.

58. Made a lot of changes in the design, we try to do everything as authentic as possible. Very tricky handbrake.

59. With a tank, a separate song, my stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story.

63. There is a good saying - it is better to see once than a hundred times to read about it. All who read and watch my blog know my favorite expression - the devil lies in the details. It is these details that I'll show you today. It makes no sense to write for a long time, you will understand everything yourself.

64. The harnesses and wiring in the braid, well, that, I think you just have not seen, the two-tone claxon, in short, just look, all this is called technology.

67. The main task facing the implementation of this project was to create a complete authenticity of all parts of the interior. It would seem that it could be easier than to copy the existing sample, but, as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than restoration.

So, we needed to make all the analog devices and work properly with the electronic blocks of modern units; Till a close car a bunch of additional equipment, such as air conditioning, a hydraulicel, brake amplifier. All this should work from full-time togglers and switches. The stove valves used to have mechanical drives, as on the "Volga" GAZ-21, therefore had to thoroughly remake the stove. But the largest problem was the manufacture of gear gear selector.

68. All complexity was that the car was initially built for sports, was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed under the tilt of 30 degrees to the silhouette of the machine not violate. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct hinge drive.

69. There was no more than 2 cm of free space between the box and the box itself. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, it was necessary to solve this problem. Since the standard pair of engine was taken - the box, then the task became even more difficult, because the automatic box is much more in size and has a completely different management principle.

71. After long torment, a hinge and a load system was designed, which allowed to completely simulate this node, which is easy to make sure, looking at the original.

72. Well, the most interesting thing: if you carefully read the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, it is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so close that a person with an increase of 180 cm rested his head into the roof and was forced to sit hunted at the helm, I love to ride on straight hands, because I had to change the angle of inclination of the steering column to ensure comfort and not break general form. How it was achieved - this is a whole novel, starting with the manufacture of unique salazzo and ending the alteration of the floor and seats.

73. I am not the first one who decided to recreate the legendary car. Even at the end of the 70s, such attempts were made in America, Tony Ostermaer, the former mechanic engineer from Gardena, was advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years with the use of aggregates from Mercedes for those years. Today, these cars themselves are raritets.

I saw them, of course, this is far from such high-quality products as I would like, but this is the best thing that was done. In the 90s there were attempts to the American company "Speedster" using the Tony matrix, implancing it on the Chevrolet Corvette C03 nodes. There were only two cars. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. Machines were sold 150 thousand dollars.

74. Actually, this is all. True, there were attempts to wear a shell on SL and many more loud statements, but all this pshik, people fled ahead of the steam locomotive, as with our e-mobile: there is nothing yet, but there are already 40 thousand applications.

By the way, work with the composite is very complex. Only his high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, the most important thing: fake and copy - these are two big differences.

75. They say that in the car everything should be fine - both the engine, and the trunk. On the first car, gas shock absorbers decided to open and fix the trunk lid.

76. We have a little converted a fuel neck, reasonably counting that if it is hermetically sealed to the lid of the trunk, it will reduce the risk of spreading the smell of gasoline inside the cabin in the case of its strait.

I did not like the idea. This car was closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (steel funnel around the lid should prevent the fuel strait on the carpet).

77. Of course, without a collective farm, it was not necessary: \u200b\u200bthe leather gondon was built around the bay neck. It seems that it looks beautiful, and abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) of fixing the trunk lid. It was possible, of course, to freeze with springs, like on modern cars, but it seems to me that it will kill the spirit of the car. It looks very nice the trunk in the open state.

90. Walk around the car.

One can only add: before you start something to do, think carefully, whether you have enough strength to bring the started to the end.

After arriving in Russia.

Video from the inside of the recreated car.

In this video, you can see how the Germans restore the hero of the report, the very "gullving".

Now you can not study the tons of thematic literature and not to disappear at the Multi-month courses of masters to solve any task. Just with the car. On the Internet you can find a wide variety of master classes and advice on creating a self-made car, be it a sports car or a regular tractor. But what materials are they made from? How to draw the right drawings? And what else can be made with your own hands for a homemade car?

A bit of history

Produce homemade passenger carsmobile Started a few more decades ago. Of particular popularity and distribution, this occupation gained in the times of the USSR. At that time, the production of exclusively mass models were established, in which there were many errors and flaws, as well as almost complete absence of comfort. Therefore, by Russian craftsmen created individual cars from a variety of remedies.

Most often new car Collected out of several non-working old. Also for settlements and villages, ordinary cars were reworked into real cargo. For this, the carrying capacity has increased and lengthened the body. There were models that easily overcome any water obstacles.

Legislatives such homemakes were not prohibited. Some restrictions were introduced only at the Sunset of the USSR, but they practically did not interfere with personal production. There was a huge number of tricks and gaps in the laws, thanks to which many hundreds of hand-made machines were registered in those days.

What is required for homemade cars

Before collecting your own vehicle, It is necessary to carefully consider every step and all the details of the coming work. First you need to decide on the main purpose of creating the machine. The design and possibility of future transport depends on it. If a universal farm assistant is required, capable of raising a significant cargo and pass any obstacles, it will be necessary to stock special items and materials, and also focus on the enhanced design. In the case of creating a sports car or any other feshne car, you need to think about the appearance.

In addition, various components are needed to work with motorcycles, motor collections and various trailers. However, anyway homemade car, with your own hands created, requires the presence of several wheels, sheets of steel, special bolts for metal structures, steering wheels, transmission, screws, etc.

What materials are better to use

The design of the car is not easy. The machine must be safe for both the owner and others. Therefore, high-strength and wear-resistant materials should be used. In addition, you can not forget about comfort.

Most often, craftsmen use metal and wood in the design. For equipping and comfort, glass, plastic, various fabrics and leather, rubber, etc.

In addition, each particular case material has its drawbacks and advantages. For example, a homemade car from wood will be much cheaper than the same, but of iron or plastic. It is known that before the beginning of the 40s, all carcasses for transport were made from a tree. But such material makes the car less safe, as well as it is impracticious and short-lived. In addition, the weight of such a vehicle is quite large.

It is easier and more practical to use various metal structures in the work or the corresponding elements of old cars.

How to make drawings

Any serious project requires training. Therefore, before starting to make any homemade car with your own hands, you need to draw a detailed plan and drawing of the future design. You can use several sketches: a common vehicle view, as well as a detailed picture of each element. To do this, you will need big watman, pencils and erase, paints and rules, as well as other stationery.

The easiest way to own modern technologies, make drawings on your computer. In addition, for this there are many special programs, such as "compass", splan or autocade. You can also make diagrams and Word. Each similar application has its own characteristics and advantages.

Now you can create absolutely any homemade cars. Drawings, folk craftsmen are of the universal review. Then they can be printed in any convenient format.

How to remake a personal car

Describe absolutely new model Vehicle is not for everyone under force, so one or more old, taken from the records of machines is most often used. In our country, it is usually "Zhiguli", "Volga" or "Cossacks". They are reworked for different purposes: for children's carousels, heavy cargo transportation, driving in particularly dangerous conditions, etc.

Many auto masters claim that they start collecting new car with small At first, some elements of old personal machines are reworked, then add some new items. And after that, the completely new model is constructed at all. The converted hybrids are very interesting, capable of riding equally well both in the land and in snow or water.

Register a homemade car

So, not one month passed, and you finally constructed and collected your own homemade car. But to be able to safely and freely ride it, you should go through the registration procedure. And for this you need to make some difficult steps. It should be noted that only those cars that weigh more than 3.5 tons are subject to registration, any semi-trailers and trailers, motorcycles and motor scooters are also drawn up.

Initially, the correctness and reliability of the design of the machine is checked. This deals with a special testing laboratory. Here are the main parameters, without which the safe operation of the device is impossible. After carrying out the necessary tests, the owner is issued with these conclusions, as well as with official documents for the parts used in the transport, contact the traffic police. Certification of the Road Safety Institute is also needed.

The MREO takes a certificate of the absence of an identification number. To obtain a new one should contact the traffic police and all the documents received. Then on your own car you go to the MREO for final registration.

Fixtures for transport with their own hands

Make a homemade car is just the beginning. You still need to create all the conditions for more comfortable and safe operation. We need all sorts of lighting devices, fans, additional accessories, etc.

For example, you can make a special launching device to start the car during the cold season. The industrial sample will hit the pocket well, and the homemade device will help significantly save a family budget. To do this, you will need transistors, switches, diodes, resistors, connecting wires, etc.

Individual anti-theft devices are also fairly popular. Such homemade devices For the car helps to ensure the safety of the machine in any conditions. The simplest consists of only a single diode installed between the battery, a toggle switch and the voltage generator.

Several interesting facts about homemade

Of course, in this area there was no extraordinary case and episodes:

• The title of lowest car belongs to homemade Flatmobile. Its height is only 50 cm. It is possible to ride in it only on even smooth asphalt.
• For lovers of modern vehicles, jewelry companies have created rings with drawings in the form of various protector. Watching these products are quite original.
• Several British students constructed their self-made feature lies not only in speed and design, but also in the engine, because it works on hydrogen. This technique is absolutely safe for nature. Such homemade mini cars are designed for autobahn and cities.
• The legendary Henry Ford could not leave the creator's garage for a long time, because possessed impressive dimensions. Only breaking the wall, the master was able to take a novelty.

Planning to surprise those around your car? Unfortunately, it is unlikely to do serial modelThat came out from the conveyor of some kind of plant, but the vehicle made by its own hands will undoubtedly attract the attention of the crowd on the street.

The homemade vehicle can cause the surrounding two emotions - a genuine surprise to your skill or undisguised smile at the form of the invention. If you are in the question of assembling your own car, then nothing complicated in the process. The main thing is to learn more about the main parts and nodes of the car, understand the features and properties of the vehicle.

Homemade cars in history

The mass production of homemade cars began in the Soviet Union. Then only certain models were produced on the market, which could not satisfy all the needs of consumers. As a result, self-taught masters appeared, which constructed their own cars, in line with their desires and financial opportunities.

The assembly of the new car was carried out on the basis of the car failed, on average, three non-working machines were required for one self-made machine. The craftsmen filmed everything required spare partsand introduced them in new Body. By the way, body work was popular in the villages, the car specially filmed the old body and replaced it to a more spacious one.

In addition to functional models, created and simply attractive vehicles from aesthetic point of view, which could not be distinguished from well-known sports factory specimens. Such cars were full parties to the road.

It is worth noting that until the 1980s, there was no prohibition on the design and use of self-made vehicles. After the prohibition of the ban, the inventors had to get out, many of them were recorded in the traffic police absolutely other vehicles, and then used their invention.

How to collect your own car

Before the start of the assembly, it is necessary to make a plan for future work, in which you need to specify what the car will be, what features and characteristics it will have. If the car in the future will be used, it is necessary to purchase high-quality materials and parts, collect a reliable frame and resistant to the influences of the hull.

Important! Depending on which vehicle you plan to collect, you will need one or other materials. Bolts, wheels and scrap metal in this case, it is unlikely to be able to do.

You can learn about the direct assembly process from training videos, which are enough on the network.

Drawings of the future car

Imagination and fantasy will help to smallele the appearance and the device of the future car in the head in the head, but to implement the conceived in reality, it is necessary to draw up a vehicle drawing.

It is better to do two drawings of the car: the first will be depicted a general view, on the second there are separate nodes and parts of the vehicle.

Before starting the drawing, it is worth preparing a pencil, a ruler, Watman and washingal gum. First, the sheet is made in sketches with thin lines, which, if necessary, can be easily erased. After all the details are drawn, and the resulting image is completely satisfied - the drawing will be bored with a thick line.

Do not necessarily draw a drawing on a sheet of paper, modern designers comes to the rescue software, significantly facilitating the process of creating a drawing.

Build car

In the countries of America and Europe, the Kit-Kar sets have been popular in the past few years, which are a set of different parts that allow you to build a car with your own hands. Details universal, so how it turns out ready carFully depends on the imagination of the owner of the set.

This is not just some kind of car, but a legend car with an interesting story - Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing". Below the fascinating felting on how from scratch did a copy of the legendary car, and not just a copy, and the car collected from the original spare parts. In the process of creating Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing" was used by the suspension from the Mercedes W202 and W107. Remembering that the best - the enemy is good, we put adjustable shock absorbers. Special attention should be paid to the rear axle reducer, usually it is with him the biggest problems arise, which is why customizers like the continuous bridges so much. On Mercedes, this node together with the drives is assembled on the subframe, which greatly simplifies work with him.



The graduation system from a stainless steel complies with the standard of Euro 3, and the fuel tank is a real work of art: so that the fuel does not splash, partitions and overflow tubes are installed. In one of the photos - locking power lock




In the project "Gullwing" it was decided to use the next generation of M104 engines with a volume of 3.2 liters and with a capacity of 220 hp. In a pair with automatic 5-speed transmission. The choice of the engine was incredible - it is more powerful, easier and quieter. The gearbox is primitive, with a hydrotransformer, many of these aggregates are familiar to Mercedes W124, W140, W129, W210. A hydraulic was also installed, all the units are new, so there should be no problems.

Making body.
In 1955, Diamler Benz released 20 cars with aluminum body and one with composite. We decided to try the composite.


After the manufacture of the body and the chassis assembly begins the bumping of the body with the frame. The process is so painstaking and vigorous that no photos and words will not be passed. Assembly and disassembly, fit - all this takes not one day. Many details are being finalized in place, and the body is attached to the frame through special demphirs by bolts in 30 places. All body parts are installed and customized - doors, hood, trunk lid. A lot of hassle with glasses - they are attached to rubber seals, and since all the original seals are designed for steel, then it is necessary to strictly observe the thickness of the opening frames. Each detail is removed, manually adjusted and only then installed in place.







Many details on the most sought-after rare models still produce small-sector in some workshops than all restorers are actively used. Yes, that there is sin there, the plants themselves make their rarities, especially in this succeeded by Audi and Mercedes.
Many museums have candid copies. So lately, "chorchov" was very much broken. This is especially interesting, considering that all the factory documentation was lost during the war. Dozens of workshops on the equipment of those years stamps fakes, issuing them for carefully restored products. The devil lies in the details.
So we just bought and collected all the details that could decorate any rarity for 500 thousand euros. I assure you, every wrench and bolt (I'm not talking about gum) have the correct marking of 1955. Original all, even salad seats.
Already the body is closed, and this is the highest moment, for the composite is a special material in painting, because there are plasticizers and all sorts of other complex pieces. Primer secrets protect and no one will ever tell you. But it looks beautiful.



In the meantime, the body is painted, we will make the preparation of nodes to the assembly. As I said, the Devil lies in the details, and there are more than 2 thousand in the car! Dashboard, I was looking for a very long time.
Toppers and relays also find, not all of course it turns out right away.
But with enviable patience and perseverance, you will have the opportunity to get a completely authentic instrument panel consisting of 80 (!) Details.
The main thing is that it is later and earned: the instructors are all expensive. Cheap does not happen well.

The body is covered in 6 layers of varnish, it is very beautiful and will not need to be a film under chrome. Yes, shagreen is necessarily, well, and grain so that it is small. Now it is no longer paint, everything is diluted with water, they have the ecology, the nature will be guarded. By the way, paint 744 (silver) is the most difficult for painting, any painter will tell you.




Finally married the chassis with the body.



Installed doors. It would seem that the point is not cunning, but I want to tell you one story. Mercedes 300sl "Gullwing" had many constructive flaws. One of them was actually the doors: they were steel, heavy and mounted loops to the roof of the body, and fixed the spring concluded between the hollow steel tubes with hinges at the end. In the extreme upper position, the spring was compressed, and when lowering the door, the door slammed the door with the roar. When opening, it was necessary to overcome the springs resistance, which simply pulled the door along with the brackets (900 euros per piece). The experienced owners "Gullwing" know that with imperative use it will inevitably lead to the deformation of the roof, besides, the brackets themselves simply break. Spring rod assembly with time became a mad deficit and its cost increased to astronomical heights. Each owner of such a rarity repairs these nodes once a season. We decided to go to another way and put gas shock absorbers. It would seem that it was easier, but it was not there. I had to develop a node entirely, it took 4 months of hard work. Fortunately, there was a workshop that embodied ideas and drawings into life. With full external authenticity, the doors today open as the rear fifth door from the German SUV. The node was so successful that he immediately became the subject of the lust of all the owners of the rarities, I think that all the "Gulvings" will soon have very effectively and smoothly, without knocking the doors. Now this process really has become similar to the wing of the seagull - graceful and smoothly. This is only one, and the simplest example of those tasks that had to be solved when building this car.
By the way, the mechanism of the door lock also underwent changes. Despite the cost of 1500 euros, he very often drove and did not record the door, but this is another story.

At the very beginning of the project, it seemed that the interior decoration was the smallest problem, the benefit on every step workshops on the stirring salons, so that, and with the skin now any master will cope. Business things - shelter a bunch of skin details, but as it turned out, it is a huge problem! After four attempts to create details of the interior in the tuning studio, I understood: everything is much more difficult. Created products, well, did not want to look at the original. Everything looked cheap fake: the skin was sharpened, traces of heat treatment were visible, the texture did not coincide, and no one could choose the material. In short, he began to delve into subtleties and found out that modern masters do not know how to work with felt, wool and other materials used at the time. They stupidly warmed and stretched the skin, the foam rubber was used everywhere, where they could, actively worked as an iron, in short, they mercilessly destroyed materials, damping their naturalness and nobility. I'm not talking about durability. Walking for half a year, we came to the conclusion that only restorers are capable of such work. They have a special foam rubber, and felt. In general, they found a company, guys - wolves, units, years near 60, which for 40 years restore only Mercedes. What they have shown and told us is just a novel about the skin, and they protect their secrets about the same way as the secret of making paper for the dollar. Details of the interior on my kid did 4 months. The skin is just like a living.
I will also add that the skin that manufacturers are offered today are a chemical bull with impregnation. No wonder all the owners of Mercedes and BMW after the year of operation are awesome - the salons look like an old redroad: non-freight, the skin is pulled out, seals. As I said earlier - the devil lies in the details.
I'm not talking about vinyls, widely used by the Japanese, and all manufacturers in principle. Now in the Mercedes of the skin and the jacket is not enough, one fuflo, therefore, the options appear - "estate", "individual", "exclusive". Leading manufacturers at least for 10-15 thousand dollars you will be given real skin, and the fact that you sew for 50 thousand rubles, even the skin does not turn the language to call.

Wheels - one of the important details of the car. So for our handsome there were two types of wheels. The first were put on the civil version.
The second were offered as an option. They came from sports - real, with a central nut. Of course, it is beautifully chromed wheels, but the price of 5 thousand euros per wheel is somewhat annoying.
How then will die with a hammer on the nut, knowing that she is golden? The original disc for the classics, too, is not cheap - 3 thousand euros. So I think it hurts 8 thousand euros to save.
One of the main factors of the engine work is the removal of exhaust gases (combustion products). I do not want to remember the laws of thermodynamics here, I will only say that the last 150 years exhaust pipe is a symbol of progress. Remember the locomotive pipes, steamboats, domain. I remember my love for details, I want to assure you that it was the pipe that the closest attention was paid. This is a masterpiece of engineering thought.
The graduation system is made of stainless steel, not a single manufacturer can afford, and is a complex system of pushed and thin-walled pipes mounted one to another, this allowed the external appearance of the pipe to solve the problem of "gulving" - noise and heating of the cabin. Well, the main thing is the sound of the exhaust, it's just a song. The problem was solved using the resonators installed inside the system. Want to understand what you have a car - look at the exhaust pipe! At the date on the photo, do not pay attention, just bought a decent fotik. I've been departed, only with the instructions did not understand, it turned out not the date. Made a lot of changes in the design, we try to make everything authentic as possible. Very tricky handbrake.
With a tank, a separate song, made one of the stainless steel, slightly changing the location of the neck, but this is a separate story.




There is a good saying - it is better to see once than a hundred times to read about it. My favorite expression that I have repeated more than once, the Devil lies in the details. It is these details that I will show you. It makes no sense to write for a long time, you will understand everything yourself. The harnesses and wiring in the braid, well, that I think you just have not yet seen, two-tone claxson, in short, just look, all this is called technology.


The main task of the project that standing before the implementation was the creation of the complete authenticity of all the details of the interior. It would seem that it may be easier to copy the existing sample, but as they say, everything is not so simple, and much more difficult than restoration. So, we needed to make all analog devices work, and work properly with electronic blocks of modern units; Till a close car a bunch of additional equipment, such as air conditioning, a hydraulicel, brake amplifier. All this should work from full-time togglers and switches. The barbers of the stove used to have mechanical drives, as on the Volga GAZ-21, therefore had to thoroughly remake the stove. But the largest problem was the manufacture of gear gear selector.
All the difficulty was that the car was initially built for sports, was small and very low, even the engine had to be placed under the tilt of 30 degrees, so that the silhouette of the machine does not violate. The box was located in the tunnel and had a direct hinge drive.
There was no more than 2 cm of free space between the box and the box itself. I have already said that the car itself was cramped and very noisy, it was necessary to solve this problem. Since the standard pair of the engine-box was taken, then the task became even more difficult, because the automatic box is much more in size and has a completely different principle of management.

After a long torment, the hinge and the system was designed, which allowed to completely simulate this node, which is easy to make sure, looking at the original.
Well, the most interesting thing: if you carefully read the photos, you will see that the seats are much lower than the original, it is also a trick. The fact is that the car was so close that a man with an increase of 180 cm. Rejected his head into the roof and was forced to sit hunched at the helm, I love to ride straight hands, because I had to change the angle of inclination of the steering column to ensure comfort and not Violate a general view. How it was achieved - this is a whole novel, starting with the manufacture of unique salazzo and ending the alteration of the floor and seats.

I am not the first who decided to recreate the legendary car. Even at the end of the 70s, such attempts were made in America, Tony Ostermaer, the former mechanic engineer from Gardena, was advanced. He managed to build about 15 cars in 10 years with the use of aggregates from Mercedes for those years. Today, these cars themselves are raritets. I saw them, of course, this is far from such high-quality products as I would like, but this is the best thing that was done. In the 90s, attempts were attempts by the American company "Speedster", using the Tony matrix, implancing it on the "Chevrolet Corvette C3" nodes. A total of 2 cars were made. One of them is now in Ukraine, and the other in Moscow. Machines were sold at 150 thousand dollars.
Actually, this is all. True, there were attempts to wear shell on SL and many more loud statements, but all this PSHIC, people fled ahead of the locomotive, as with our e-mobile: there is nothing yet, but already 40 thousand applications are already filed. By the way, work with the composite is very complex. Only his high-quality painting costs about 10 thousand euros. Well, the most important thing: fake and copy - these are two big differences.
It is said that in the car everything should be fine, both the motor and the trunk. On the first car, gas shock absorbers decided to open and fix the trunk lid. We slightly converted a plotty neck, reasonably counting that if it was hermetically sealed to the lid of the trunk, it will reduce the risk of spreading the smell of gasoline inside the cabin in the case of its strait.
I did not like the idea. This car was closer to the original, changing only the shape of the filler neck (steel funnel around the lid should prevent the fuel strait on the carpet). Of course, without a collective farm did not cost: the leather cover was built around the bay neck. It seems that it looks beautiful, and abandoned the shock absorbers, putting the native mechanism (stick) of fixing the trunk lid. It was certainly possible to freeze with springs, like on modern machines, but it seems to me it will kill the spirit of the car. It looks very nice the trunk in the open state.
Yes, and very cool everything looks. Considering that today everything is already used articular tires, they decided to free up the place, placing the recharge in the trunk instead of a regular wheel. Now although there is anyway to leave.
Actually, it is inexorably moving towards its logical conclusion. Of course, it's nice that everything ends so quickly, it remains to acknowledge a member and pour wheels.


Wheels are temporary not to treat the original.





That's basically it!