Concours / Show & Shine1983W201
This is Hebe. A 1991 Mercedes-Benz 190E.
She came into Rabbits Garage still a saloon. Dark green, factory 15-hole wheels, amber indicators, the Daimler sticker on the glass. Twenty days before that first film she already wore this colour; the surprise was how whole she was. Aerial up with the key. Mirrors, locks, seatback on switches. Air-con cold in a car from ’91. Automatic. A sunroof that no longer moved, because the car is from ’91. Pros and cons.
The first part that left was the steering wheel. The original was tired. In its place: a Forever Sharp, chrome spokes, wood rim. The fold-out Pioneer in the dash was only a phase. It was always coming out.
Phase 1 ends there. Stock body, stock arches, the green 190 parked on the cobbles under the Rabbits Garage sign, then rolling under cloud on steel wheels and hubcaps. The next promise on camera was the headlights. The real change was the kit.
The Rieger widebody is what the car is now. Flares pulled out over all four corners, skirts tying the sills together, Evo nose, the tall rear wing that you see before you see the rest of her. Boot lid still reads 190 E. The plate is still IFR1H55. The green never left.
Under those arches sit the forged Brixtons: three-piece, brushed five-spoke, polished lip, RABBITS cut into the barrel. Inside, the placeholder radio is gone. An Alpine screen hangs under a custom engraved fascia, a Philipp Plein The $kull in the centre, skulls worked into the metal on both sides.
She started as a complete 1991 190E that nobody had cut. She finished as a EVO R kit that still starts, still cools, and still wears that green. The first video is the before. The highway shots are the after. Same car. Same garage. Different silhouette.
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A W201 190E 2.5, finished in dark metallic green, wearing Evolution bodywork: box flares, deep skirts, the front apron with fogs, and the tall rear wing that defines the car from a hundred metres. The boot still says 190 E and 2.5. The plate is Brazilian, IFR1H55. Under the arches, the custom Brixton Forged three-pieces: brushed faces, polished lips, RABBITS in the barrel. Inside, the factory clock and radio are gone: a Philipp Plein The $kull set in an engraved fascia, an Alpine floating screen beneath it. The warehouse shots were the car standing still. These are the ones that matter. Wide, green, on the move.
First the black multi-spokes: Mercedes centre, thin polished lip, the green 190 still finding its stance in the warehouse. Then the forged Brixtons: three-piece, brushed five-spoke, deep lip, RABBITS in the barrel. Same car, different weight on the corners.
Custom Rabbits for the 190. Three-piece, hardware through the barrel, RABBITS stamped on the inner step. Brushed finish. Built for this car, not pulled off a catalogue page.
Custom clock and Alpine for the 190. The factory clock and cassette/radio slot are gone. In the upper opening, a Philipp Plein The $kull is mounted in a one-off engraved metal housing. Two skulls flank the watch. Scrollwork runs the full width of the fascia, leather padded above the vents. Under that, an Alpine floating screen. Home screen shows Bluetooth audio, MediaXpander, tone (graves / agudos), EQ, time correction and a live voltage readout. The unit is set into the stack so the engraved panel still reads as the face of the dash and the Alpine hangs just beneath it. Two jobs, one centre line: time in metal, sound on glass.
Custom clock, built for the 190. The original dash clock came out. In its place: a Philipp Plein The $kull, set dead-centre in a machined and engraved metal housing. The bezel still reads PHILIPP PLEIN / THE $KULL. The dial is the faceted skull. Either side of it, two more skulls are engraved into the panel, framed by the same scrollwork that runs across the whole strip. Nothing here is off-the-shelf trim. The metal is cut and worked to the width of the cabin, leather padded above, the lower bar left dark so the engraving carries the light. Quartz movement, luminous hands and it works as a clock. The rest is the point of the build: one piece, made for this car, that you only see when you are already inside it.
The factory grille was the same one every other 190E wears. We scanned it, kept the measurements and the bolt pattern, and drew a new face over that geometry. References were mixed: modern Mercedes vertical-bar language more than period W201. The file was too big for one print, so it came off the 256 mm bed in three sections. Alignment pins in the joints. Tigre solvent primer as the weld: melts the plastic, chemical bond, then bodywork. The chrome frame is the original. The star is the original. Only the insert is new. Fitted on IFR1H55 in the shop. Surround still needs metalwork and body-colour paint. After that the front is finished enough to start the Evo II kit they are building from scratch for the same car.
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Before the Rieger kit, there was a drawing. Line work first: W201 nose, Evo bumper, the arches pulled out, a three-piece sitting in the well. Then colour, a hard lime green that never went on the car. The finished 190 stayed dark. The silhouette in the sketch is the one that did: widebody 190E, low, lip in the flare, wing implied at the back. That file is the spoiler. The highway shots are the proof.
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