WHAT? I don't think generators came on as standard equipment until the styled tractors in '39 and you could still order a magneto ignition (starter delete) until the Supers came out in '52. This was an F12, '35 IIRC, my great uncle used it to mow "around the house" with a 5' bellymower. -Curt Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:41:56 -0700 From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Nearly dead 87 300D battery/neat start To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> I had an old Farmall tractor that I always have to remember to park > in gear, you could turn it over so easy the wind on the fan blades > would crank it and it'd be sitting there idling when I came home. Never heard of a Farmall with a magneto before! -- Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 08 18:42:20 2006 Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FoPSW-0005Sf-4H for Mercedes@okiebenz.com; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:42:20 +0000 Received: from familycomp ([68.106.48.86]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:42:10 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Bob Rentfro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:42:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: [MBZ] Was '72 350SL, Now: We're Good Guys X-BeenThere: Mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:Mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:42:20 -0000 I felt badly last night thinking about how that poor old guy could = barely stand up outdoors, willing to fill me in on his car as I looked. = So...today I called him to give him my name and number telling him that = when he feels up to it give me a call so I can give it a good once over = and drive it. He said that would be great. He then went into a little = spiel about how considerate that was of me and about how people who own = older Mercedes are generally very nice and considerate that way. He then = mentioned how he was glad "some one who knew whar he was getting and = would take good care of it" was fixin' to buy his car. What a nice = feller. I felt glad/proud for all of us. It appears we're not as looney as our = spouses sometimes think. Bob Rentfro '77 300D 154K '01 VW Beetle TDI 66K working on getting "72 350SL 78K (woo hoo) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 08 18:49:34 2006 Received: from web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.36]) by server8.arterytc8.net with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FoPZV-0006An-Mb for Mercedes@okiebenz.com; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:49:34 +0000 Received: (qmail 31595 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Jun 2006 18:49:24 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=dP9ItWtKrcbnPlCz4Xt1lZdlBuUXv7XzyDQ9ie8EdQYU8ma7+3GFuzhg02yCzOrhL94+z60ySs8vx5qkFQe1cZzgiKFTBUvVdLQ+1hVzLJrY+veItLGcI0pY8Zna9eXZDKmRWGU711GNKaATFTgGl15Q8CdqQ/JV/qfKCbgwZQs= ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [198.51.119.130] by web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:49:24 PDT Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:49:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Jim, did you call this fellow? X-BeenThere: Mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:Mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:49:34 -0000 Everytime I've put anything on Craigs it needed 2 or 3 repeats to get any nibbles. You get what you pay for... -Curt Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:33:49 -0700 From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Jim, did you call this fellow? To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/168483996.html > Looking for a w123 diesel. You have one. Just sent him an e-mail. Don't know if my 300+kmi qualifies in his book as 'low miles' or not. :-) > Been cruising the CL stuff > and if you really want top dollar, sell the car from PDX. The prices > there are insane Interesting. Maybe it's time to list it in Portland's CL again. Got zero nibbles on it the two times (weeks) I'd listed it there before, so I stopped bothering. -- Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 08 19:10:28 2006 Received: from mxa.windwireless.net ([199.164.167.40]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FoPtj-00088g-QR for Mercedes@okiebenz.com; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:10:27 +0000 Received: from dogear.com (jimc.progress.wi-fi.windwireless.net [206.63.94.197] (may be forged)) by mxa.windwireless.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k58JB40n003762 for <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:11:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:10:24 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scan: smtp-vilter X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.0rc2 X-SMTP-Vilter-Backend: Clam AntiVirus Daemon (clamd) X-SMTP-Vilter-Status: clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0rc4 (mxa.windwireless.net [199.164.167.40]); Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:11:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Jim, did you call this fellow? X-BeenThere: Mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com> List-Post: <mailto:Mercedes@okiebenz.com> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:10:28 -0000 > Everytime I've put anything on Craigs it needed 2 or 3 repeats to get > any nibbles. You get what you pay for... I got a call on the car an hour after the PDX listing, however she had not realized (read) that the car was in Spokane. Typical. -- Jim
