Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=290151352486ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:AU:1 Australia has more than its fair share of mad genius inventors. This guy needed an outlet for his creativity, but unfortunately it sent him to outer slobovia rather than a more productive realm.. On 8/19/07, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That used to be a favorite trick with the VW Microbus, back in the day On 8/19/07, Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw one of those last week in KY when I was visiting my dad. I don't think it was a runner, but someone had taken out the center section of some sort of little van (not a full size, like one of those tiny jap delivery vans). Thing had about a 5 ft wheelbase if that. Looked kinda funny, they use it for a billboard in front of their business. I shoulda snapped a pic of it. --R Tom Hargrave wrote: I wanted to chop the middle out of a Dodge mini-van and make it into a micro-mini-van. I figured I could remove the entire center section including the side door. Then I could install chrome rims, wide tires, loud stereo cruise the streets playing Barry Manilow and John Denver. Wife nix'd that one. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 ___ 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 -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. -Benjamin Disraeli '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager ___ 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 ___ 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
[MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=290151352486ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:AU:1 This person should be sued for a number of reasons but unfortunately bad taste is not possible. I wonder how Daimler feel about this? Although I do have secret fantasies about putting a Toyota front on my Mercs :-[ ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
Not quite as tacky as the old Rolls Royce looking front end on the Beatle trick, but tacky none the less . -Robert Hendrik wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=290151352486ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:AU:1 This person should be sued for a number of reasons but unfortunately bad taste is not possible. I wonder how Daimler feel about this? Although I do have secret fantasies about putting a Toyota front on my Mercs :-[ ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
Little girl in Atlanta slid on wet pavement and squished the back end of my '67 200D. Body shop couldn't fix it and couldn't find a used back end. Bodyman took a bunch of measurements, took me out behind the shop, and showed me the back end of a car which he said could be welded on the 200D and would look real nice. I've forgotten which make it was. I would have let him do it except for my wife who was a real MB addict. She would get almost physically ill when the least little thing went wrong with her 240D. She might have divorced me when she saw what I had done to the 200D. I drilled some drain holes in the trunk floor and chained down the trunk lid. Drove it that way until it was sold. It would have been a fun car to drive; MB comin' and XXcar goin'. Gerry --- - Original Message - From: Hendrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:27 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks Yeah but the RR grille on the VW is so over the top that in a way it is cool. Seriously though I do wonder whether there is a copyright infringment by placing an auto makers symbol on another car, I am pretty sure that the VW jobby did not have the RR symbol or the lady on the rad but I could be wrong. Alas even I can be wrong now and again and I have Roger just waiting to pounce when I am :-) Anyway I've got to leave bandwidth space for all the gun talk so should really stop going off topic with stuff like this. Harry is busy expressing his love for the Colt 1911, although even I must admit the M1911 is a good combat weapon. Robert Tara Ludwick wrote: Not quite as tacky as the old Rolls Royce looking front end on the Beatle trick, but tacky none the less . -Robert ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
A friend of mine was rear-ended years ago in his 74 Caddy. He had the rear sheet metal welded on from a 1959, the one with the very tall tail fins. The body shop actually did a respectable job and it actually looked good for a 59/74 (or 74/59, depending if you were coming or going) Fleetwood Cadillac. I wanted to chop the middle out of a Dodge mini-van and make it into a micro-mini-van. I figured I could remove the entire center section including the side door. Then I could install chrome rims, wide tires, loud stereo cruise the streets playing Barry Manilow and John Denver. Wife nix'd that one. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of archer Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 6:45 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks Little girl in Atlanta slid on wet pavement and squished the back end of my '67 200D. Body shop couldn't fix it and couldn't find a used back end. Bodyman took a bunch of measurements, took me out behind the shop, and showed me the back end of a car which he said could be welded on the 200D and would look real nice. I've forgotten which make it was. I would have let him do it except for my wife who was a real MB addict. She would get almost physically ill when the least little thing went wrong with her 240D. She might have divorced me when she saw what I had done to the 200D. I drilled some drain holes in the trunk floor and chained down the trunk lid. Drove it that way until it was sold. It would have been a fun car to drive; MB comin' and XXcar goin'. Gerry --- - Original Message - From: Hendrik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:27 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks Yeah but the RR grille on the VW is so over the top that in a way it is cool. Seriously though I do wonder whether there is a copyright infringment by placing an auto makers symbol on another car, I am pretty sure that the VW jobby did not have the RR symbol or the lady on the rad but I could be wrong. Alas even I can be wrong now and again and I have Roger just waiting to pounce when I am :-) Anyway I've got to leave bandwidth space for all the gun talk so should really stop going off topic with stuff like this. Harry is busy expressing his love for the Colt 1911, although even I must admit the M1911 is a good combat weapon. Robert Tara Ludwick wrote: Not quite as tacky as the old Rolls Royce looking front end on the Beatle trick, but tacky none the less . -Robert ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
Tom Hargrave wrote: A friend of mine was rear-ended years ago in his 74 Caddy. He had the rear sheet metal welded on from a 1959, the one with the very tall tail fins. The body shop actually did a respectable job and it actually looked good for a 59/74 (or 74/59, depending if you were coming or going) Fleetwood Cadillac. - ROFL! Would have loved to have seen that. - I wanted to chop the middle out of a Dodge mini-van and make it into a micro-mini-van. I figured I could remove the entire center section including the side door. Then I could install chrome rims, wide tires, loud stereo cruise the streets playing Barry Manilow and John Denver. Wife nix'd that one. -- If you would have cut it just in front of the back wheels and just behind the drivers seat, that would have been a very unique car; might have won some prizes in California. Probably would have looked something like a 1920s-30s Austin my brother-in-law owned. There was just enough room behind the front seats for two of us little kids to sit facing each other up against the back of the car. Gerry ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
That was the plan, maybe I'll still do it. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of archer Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:59 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks Tom Hargrave wrote: A friend of mine was rear-ended years ago in his 74 Caddy. He had the rear sheet metal welded on from a 1959, the one with the very tall tail fins. The body shop actually did a respectable job and it actually looked good for a 59/74 (or 74/59, depending if you were coming or going) Fleetwood Cadillac. - ROFL! Would have loved to have seen that. - I wanted to chop the middle out of a Dodge mini-van and make it into a micro-mini-van. I figured I could remove the entire center section including the side door. Then I could install chrome rims, wide tires, loud stereo cruise the streets playing Barry Manilow and John Denver. Wife nix'd that one. -- If you would have cut it just in front of the back wheels and just behind the drivers seat, that would have been a very unique car; might have won some prizes in California. Probably would have looked something like a 1920s-30s Austin my brother-in-law owned. There was just enough room behind the front seats for two of us little kids to sit facing each other up against the back of the car. Gerry ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
I saw one of those last week in KY when I was visiting my dad. I don't think it was a runner, but someone had taken out the center section of some sort of little van (not a full size, like one of those tiny jap delivery vans). Thing had about a 5 ft wheelbase if that. Looked kinda funny, they use it for a billboard in front of their business. I shoulda snapped a pic of it. --R Tom Hargrave wrote: I wanted to chop the middle out of a Dodge mini-van and make it into a micro-mini-van. I figured I could remove the entire center section including the side door. Then I could install chrome rims, wide tires, loud stereo cruise the streets playing Barry Manilow and John Denver. Wife nix'd that one. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] Sacriledge, break out the pitchforks
That used to be a favorite trick with the VW Microbus, back in the day On 8/19/07, Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw one of those last week in KY when I was visiting my dad. I don't think it was a runner, but someone had taken out the center section of some sort of little van (not a full size, like one of those tiny jap delivery vans). Thing had about a 5 ft wheelbase if that. Looked kinda funny, they use it for a billboard in front of their business. I shoulda snapped a pic of it. --R Tom Hargrave wrote: I wanted to chop the middle out of a Dodge mini-van and make it into a micro-mini-van. I figured I could remove the entire center section including the side door. Then I could install chrome rims, wide tires, loud stereo cruise the streets playing Barry Manilow and John Denver. Wife nix'd that one. Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 ___ 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 -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. -Benjamin Disraeli '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager ___ 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
