Re: [MBZ] Track Time and MBCA events
John, Werner is right on.. MBCA has lots to offer from building friendships and camaraderie to going out on a track and doing a true Italian Tune Up. and lots of stuff in between. Go for it! As the saying goes A chance to drive Fast Legally!. Take care, Chuck Phoenix AZ MBCA Director at Large On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Werner Fehlauer wrote: John - IMO, everyone that enjoys M-B cars or even their history is missing something if not a member of the club. Turns out that most join just for the magazine, but there are enough people with specific interests that are enjoyable (for the most part) to follow or participate with in events. Event costs vary, depending on whether you are helping rent track time, enjoying a good dinner, or just attending a show and tell. I've seen everything from free (admittedly rare nowadays) to several hundred dollars, such as Starfest, where we have 3 days of track time, 2 banquets and a reception. Here in South Jersey, we try to have a few $5 dollar events, where we make a buck or two for the section and contribute the rest to a charity for things like going to the Philly auto show, or a small tech event at an indy shop. You just should keep taking a look at the various web sites, starting with www.mbca.org, which can lead you to special events and also section web sites. In your case, checking in on www.gws-mbca.org would make sense. Werner - Original Message - From: John W. Reames III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Track Time On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Werner Fehlauer wrote: John - keep checking on dates through the GWS-MBCA.org web site. In addition to their well-attended autocross series, they are planning a day at Summit Point on 21 May, plus of course Tri-O-Rama in September time frame. They also share track time with the Porsche and BMW folks when they can. Yes, even Diesels can be fun on a good road course. A few years back, I discovered that there was indeed a rev limiter in the IP on my '90 2.5 while running at V.I.R. - when doing the 3-4 shift on the long back straight! Cool. How much do such events usually cost? (I should fork out the money and join MBCA now that I am an exclusivewly klatta klatta fleet :) -j. ___ 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] Track Time and MBCA events
Yeah! I want to see how fast those E300Dt can go! :) :) Normally for an italian tuneup, I'd head out past Hagerstown (towards Deep Creek Lake) on I-70 and get really leadfooted. I've seen more than one BIG ball of black smoke belch forth from the rear of the car doing that... They seem to make a difference and I drive a lot of highway miles! -j. -- John Reames 1985 300d (223K Gerta) 1991 Cherokee (149K the fishbowl) 1999 E300Dt (140K Hans) 1999 E300Dt (106K Frantz) -- Original message -- From: Chuck Landenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werner is right on.. MBCA has lots to offer from building friendships and camaraderie to going out on a track and doing a true Italian Tune Up. and lots of stuff in between. Go for it! As the saying goes A chance to drive Fast Legally!. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 23 12:49:00 2007 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.152]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) id 1H9L5A-0005Dp-LT for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:49:00 + Received: from rmailcenter06.comcast.net ([204.127.197.116]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id 20070123124342m1200330i3e; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:43:42 + Received: from [208.27.111.119] by rmailcenter06.comcast.net; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:43:41 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:43:41 + Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: ATT Message Center Version 1 (Oct 4 2006) X-Authenticated-Sender: andyZWFtZXNAY29tY2FzdC5uZXQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.9.cp2 Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Psychological Insights Today X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9.cp2 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: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:49:00 - Ah! I see you haven't had your glass bellybutton installed yet! ;) -j. -- John Reames 1985 300d (223K Gerta) 1991 Cherokee (149K the fishbowl) 1999 E300Dt (140K Hans) 1999 E300Dt (106K Frantz) -- Original message -- From: David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] My engineering degree makes me well qualified to make blind guesses about psychological matters. ;) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 23 13:45:02 2007 Received: from web52713.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.236]) by server8.arterytc8.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) id 1H9LxN-0006Rt-C3 for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:45:02 + Received: (qmail 55287 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Jan 2007 13:39:42 - X-YMail-OSG: 44kzPVgVM1kgpmicgsZ6H0Xsr4x2QtiZ4tSIw0Vo Received: from [204.116.66.45] by web52713.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:39:42 PST Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:39:42 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Hattaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Process for installing 300TD's rear suspension struts X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9.cp2 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: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:45:03 - Thank you Marshall. This is exactly the PDF I was going to send Euan by private email last night. However, I went to sleep before ever getting it done. Richard Mercedesless in Morgan Township --- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Euan wrote: Thanks Richard. Yes, I thought the silence was ominous. The replacement is necessary because our Warrant of Fitness authorities deem any leak of hydraulic fluid from suspension systems as an automatic 'FAIL'. Invoking Mercedes
Re: [MBZ] Track Time and MBCA events
John - IMO, everyone that enjoys M-B cars or even their history is missing something if not a member of the club. Turns out that most join just for the magazine, but there are enough people with specific interests that are enjoyable (for the most part) to follow or participate with in events. Event costs vary, depending on whether you are helping rent track time, enjoying a good dinner, or just attending a show and tell. I've seen everything from free (admittedly rare nowadays) to several hundred dollars, such as Starfest, where we have 3 days of track time, 2 banquets and a reception. Here in South Jersey, we try to have a few $5 dollar events, where we make a buck or two for the section and contribute the rest to a charity for things like going to the Philly auto show, or a small tech event at an indy shop. You just should keep taking a look at the various web sites, starting with www.mbca.org, which can lead you to special events and also section web sites. In your case, checking in on www.gws-mbca.org would make sense. Werner - Original Message - From: John W. Reames III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Track Time On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Werner Fehlauer wrote: John - keep checking on dates through the GWS-MBCA.org web site. In addition to their well-attended autocross series, they are planning a day at Summit Point on 21 May, plus of course Tri-O-Rama in September time frame. They also share track time with the Porsche and BMW folks when they can. Yes, even Diesels can be fun on a good road course. A few years back, I discovered that there was indeed a rev limiter in the IP on my '90 2.5 while running at V.I.R. - when doing the 3-4 shift on the long back straight! Cool. How much do such events usually cost? (I should fork out the money and join MBCA now that I am an exclusivewly klatta klatta fleet :) -j.
