SLK to TR3 Body Swap Project| THE BIG DAY! Two Cars Become ONE! TR3 body fitted on SLK chassis! 

Hey there , what happened to the rest of the SLK TR3 project !!!!

This is pretty cool. At least I'm learning different way of body swap.

Is there any update on this car...love this car...🥰🥰🥰🥰

It's going to look cool when it's done

This is so exciting can't wait to see the progress!

I like this build. I think splitting the fenders to bring them out would look good. Maybe create a vintage on the back of the fronts and on the front of the backs would look good and allow the door to remain untouched.

Just found your channel. Please set up your playlists so we can more easily follow your build(s). Thanks! 👍

You two sure picked a hard way to bring a 1950s car into the 21st Century! You might want to research the Triumph TR3 "Beta". You can probably find some info online. It was a prototype with a wider track than the TR3A. It won't be enough to completely solve your problem, but the Beta body had the fenders widened an inch each, front and rear, by slicing them near the top and adding a wedge of metal in each. The front fenders taper toward the doors and the rear fenders toward the tail lights. It's a popular mod among vintage racers ("Racetorations" in the UK has one). Of course this only adds a total of two inches width and you will need more than that. Still, it's a start. Good luck! FWIW, there also were a couple TR3's prepared for the LeMans 24 Hour race by lengthening, but you are past that already (maybe) having shortened the SLK front to back. P.S. TR3 Beta is not the same as the TR3B, which kept the same body and front and rear track as the TR3A and TR3 before It. The Beta never went into production. Instead the TR4 came out in 1961 with a similarly wider track, but a completely redesigned body. For a couple years TR3B were sold alongside TR4, because dealers were worried the new model wouldn't appeal to people looking for sports cars, with luxuries like roll up windows and door handles.

Loving the work on the Tri-cedes. Keep up the good work!

I hope you guys love this project as much as us viewers. Best regards from Sweden.

I think using another set of fenders to widen it but also keep the stock look would be sick. Also the wooden steering wheel sounds perfect, maybe add some other wood touches here and there maybe dash panel, inner door panels, one idea is also those wood slat looking things alot of old British cars had on the trunk to tie down luggage too. I know y'all have a while to go but paint wise I say all finders should match to one color but the main body a different color say white body and red fenders just an example idea. (I kinda wanted to hear the bike crank up lol)

Just stumbled across this vid, too bad I didn't see it when you started the project. I grew up around several old Triumph TR's, a Spitfire, and a couple old MG's, among lots of other machines we bought, sold, repaired, and modified back in the day. You're talking here about how you will cover the width of the wheelbase with flares, extending the fenders with the ones off your parts car, or whatever, but there would have been a much better way to approach the thing, considering it no longer has any real value as a classic TR3 anyway... I would have had everything measured out and mapped before attempting to fit the body the first time, then split the body right up the center and widened the whole thing, filling the center by about 6" to give it a wider cockpit and make it much more comfortable to drive (I remember well), and still adding some nice, tastefully sized fender flares, so as not to make it look totally bastardized in the end.

We need to get you guys more subs! I’m really glad I found this channel 👍 underrated as! Keep up the good work 👌

Loving this build..But its gone quiet..Any More progress ?

love the videos , great work guys Corey looks cool without the beard but either way he is a video star

I like the build hopefully u get it finished

Did you ever do more refinements on this build? Would love to see more videos on it!!!!!!

Looking at doing my own chassis swap for a old hurdy to put on a all-wheel-drive RT S4 very informative educational and you know user-friendly video

Wheel offset; counterintuitive but, positive is what your Mercedes has, negative offset places the centers of the rims closer to their inner edges, making the track wider.

Hey guys brand new subscriber …. Just tid bit of advice on the offset on the tires and fenders watch halfass customs panel van video on how he remedied the offset on his project

Dude like totally make the body wider Dude it's easy 😂

What about widening it by adding to the middle of the car? Cut the TR3 body right down the middle….

Fits well. Why not split the shell down the middle, and widen it there, be alot less work. Flares'd look cool too. What's the green sickle?

I love the painless sticker on the toolbox as you're butchering a Mercedes wiring harness. Ouch! Best of luck with that. I hate electrical problems especially the Mercedes kind.

Try to keep looking I guess....

Dude like really wided the body like 6 1/2 inches and move the wheel wells back 4 inches good job with just a skinny wheel totally Dude

I think maybe you should add metal to the middle of the car and spread the car out wider

Just watched all your episodes on the swap. Should have widened the Triumph. And dropped it down. Now you got to start messing with suspension. Guess you can still widen it. Would have liked cool widened. Good luck

My son and l have a pair of project TR3. I'm honestly not sure how l feel about this swap. Perhaps it will all come together in the end, but hmmm.

Cut the body in half! Right in the middle and add a section to widen the body to cover the wheel openings. Make it look right!

Fender flares like the Shelby Cobra might work.

Don't widen the fenders unless you absolutely must. Instead, cut the body down the center and add a piece to widen the whole body.

Yeah just section and widen the fenders. Might want to taper the section to flow back into the original body lines.

Thank you

any updates?

Just widen the whole car body, cut it in the middle and add a foot, there is really nothing left of the body anyway but the sides.

Cut it down the middle and widen it to it the chassis.

this project still on?

What's happened with this project?

Make it wide body

Widening the TR3 would have been easier in my opinion.

It's a shame the car is wrong hand drive! RHD would have been better, I'd buy it.

Why not cut the car in the middle from front to back, then add 5 " of sheet metal, then weld it back together. The fenders look too cool to change them. This would give you an extra 2" on each side. Also, you won't be rubbing elbows with the person in the passenger seat

Is this project dead?

Don't split the fenders. Widen it in the middle. you've already taken the floor and everything out, anyway. put tubs inside and widen the whole thing down the middle. When are you going to make the next video? LOL

Should of. Should have thought about stretching the tr body to fit the uncut merc. To late now. Love these kinds of projects. I did a body swap on a Rv. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pR-Kw97kX7w.html

vin belongs to merc not the tr3 hat when you combine cars like that. Keep it!

Why do you speak like a hysterical teenager?Like the project though, but your style is strictly targeted at an american audience.Maybe you should do the video with no audio, you would get a much bigger following.

just make the car wider you allready cut it up