Reminds me of the Garrison Keiller (spelling?) routine or comment or whatever you want to call it about people being so proud that they had never gone anywhere. I'm not sure but I think it was in one of the Lake Wobygon (spelling again?) books where he talks about some fellow who was so proud of his old car with no miles on it.
You sort of have to wonder how he could have an 84 with that few miles on it. However, having said that, I have to admit that I have a 68 Chevy pickup that I have owned for more than 20 years. In that time I have only put about 14K miles on it. It was never a daily driver. It was a backup vehicle and a hauler when we needed to pickup something. It sat beside the garage for most of the time during all of those years and now it is sitting out at the lake because I don't have enough room for it at home. Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald Snook Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:18 AM To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] WOW! I was at the bank last week and I saw an elderly gentleman get out of a VERY nice 123 300D. I was right behind him in line and we had a few minutes to talk because the line was moving VERY slow. I asked him about his car and he seemed very pleased that someone asked about it. We continued our discussion outside and he showed me more of the car. He had a 1984 300D with 23,000 miles (he was the original owner). It was perfect! I don't mean perfect for a 20+ year old car, I mean PERFECT! It was that Charcoal grey color with the grey/black interior. I have never seen one of these cars that looked like it was BRAND NEW. I couldn't believe how nice it was. The only potential drawback was that he smoked big ole cigars in the car (his wife won't let him smoke anywhere else). I liked the smell, it wasn;t like cigarettes, it was a very rich humidor type smell (I am a cigar smoker, so I guess not everyone would appreciate it) He started it up and it sounded great and had the tiniest amount of smoke at start up and that's it. I was drooling over the car. We talked more and he said that he was considering getting rid of it because he was going to move to Florida and his wife really wanted to take the Minivan. He said he was 80 years old and just didn't need a second car. I begged him to give me first chance to buy it. He said he would when it came time to sell it. He seemed really pleased that someone noticed how nice it was. He also said he had ALL his service done at the Mercedes Dealer and they never drooled over the car they way I did. Here's hoping I get a chance to buy this car. Donald H. Snook 1990 300SEL 134K _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
