Hey Kiran:
A wonderfully described experience.
And a nice clean Mercedes Gullwing.
Doesn't this water temperature indicator, with its chrome bezel, resemble what we get from Yenkay in India?
Love the black leather-topped dash with the chrome piping.
Amazingly the white bakelite steering wheel shows not a crack on it in all these years. I guess that would happen in tropical India with repeated cycles of noonday heat and the midnight cold.
Love the textured stainless steel background on which the chromed brass switches are mounted.
Ram