1989 Mercedes Benz 300E owned by Rik Johnson


This was the first Mercedes I ever bought and it changed my life forever!  It is a 1989 300E light blue metallic on gray MB tex interior.  It originally came from Arizona and was very clean.  In this picture you can see that I added a 3 piece AMG style 17x8 wheel and H&R sport springs with step one pads and one coil cut off the springs.  I also painted both bumpers and impact strips body color.  A 1991 300E license panel piece was also added (not in this picture but in the last picture).

 

I was on my way to adding the complete lower rocker panel update kit (from the 1990 model) and had just painted/installed the side skirts when I traded the car in on a BMW M3 (mistake!)

 

For the front, I painted the mirror covers, grill and headlight wiper arms body color.  Was quite an improvement in over all appearance.  I also added gray side markers.

 







For the rear, the car was de-badged and I added a AMG emblem in the lower right corner.  You can also see the euro tail lights (clear blinkers instead of amber) and the universal Remus exhaust I installed.  The Remus hung down too low and I did not really like the look of that.  I had a small sound system in the car and really no other mods to speak about.