David,
I'm not going to be much help, except that I DID get a right side
convex mirror for my 1980 300SD. It's still there!!
The downside is that was about 15 years ago... Sorry, but the
memory has faded as to where I got it!
Chuck
Phoenix, AZ
Convex glass would help.
David Brodbeck wrote:
Loren Faeth wrote:
THat is what i liked ( and still like) about the 108-112 (inclusive)
cars GREAT visibility! 123s are not bad.
Agreed...you sit low in a 123, but the visibility all around is pretty
good. My only real complaint is the mirrors, which are kind of
On 12/1/05, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I still haven't gotten used to the high
beltlines and small greenhouses that designers favor, these days.
I don't WANT to get used to that styling trend. It's terrible for
visibility and headroom. I was interested in the Chrysler 300
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 00:38:00 -0800 Alex Chamberlain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/1/05, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I still haven't gotten used to the high
beltlines and small greenhouses that designers favor, these days.
I don't WANT to get used to that styling trend.
I don't WANT to get used to that styling trend. It's terrible for
visibility and headroom.
That's my complaint, too. Apparently, market research shows that most
people like it, though -- it supposedly makes them feel safer and more
secure.
THat is what i liked ( and still like) about the 108-112 (inclusive)
cars GREAT visibility! 123s are not bad.
At 12:22 PM 12/2/2005, you wrote:
I don't WANT to get used to that styling trend. It's terrible for
visibility and headroom.
That's my complaint, too. Apparently, market
Loren Faeth wrote:
THat is what i liked ( and still like) about the 108-112 (inclusive)
cars GREAT visibility! 123s are not bad.
Agreed...you sit low in a 123, but the visibility all around is pretty
good. My only real complaint is the mirrors, which are kind of skimpy.
In particular,
John Robbins wrote:
96- Ford trucks I like, and the 96+ are super bloated and plasticy
looking to me. The new new ones scream I'm compensating for
something!
To me the proportions of the new ones look off...that huge tall
tailgate, mostly. I guess I still haven't gotten used to the
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT GM bashing
John Robbins wrote:
96- Ford trucks I like, and the 96+ are super bloated and plasticy
looking to me. The new new ones scream I'm compensating for
something!
To me the proportions of the new ones look off...that huge tall
tailgate, mostly. I guess I
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT GM bashing
R A Bennell wrote:
I had a 74 Vega brand new. The sheetmetal was recycled and rusted and it
was
noisy but it was a cheap fuel efficient car and served me well for the
roughly 3 years that I drove it. I'm in Canada so the prices
speaking of GM products from the 80's thru early 90's, especially the
front wheel drive cars, there is this dude I know locally that has a
MANY FWD GM cars, buick etc. He takes the time to swap trannies on
them, replace cracked heads, whatever. I was telling him just today
that he is the
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
speaking of GM products from the 80's thru early 90's, especially the
front wheel drive cars, there is this dude I know locally that has a
MANY FWD GM cars, buick etc. He takes the time to swap trannies on
them, replace cracked heads, whatever. I was telling him just
of less than $500 per year on a new
car is not bad.
Randy
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Subject: [MBZ] OT GM bashing
It has become
Everybody's a critic, and in keeping with my shallow and vapid ways, I
don't have any actual experience with their products or engineering,
but I've always hated GM purely on aesthetic grounds. I came of
automotive age in the early '80's, and they made (and still do)
hideously offensive looking
GM, GM, GM. The cheap heap of the past, Dodge, is nowadays the hottest
tamale.
And Ford? hideously offensive looks like the whole line over the past 15
years. All look like Tauruses (Tauri ?), including the newest Jaguar. God
forgive, what have they done.
On 11/29/05, Zeitgeist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Re: [MBZ] OT GM bashing
I think they alway made good trucks. The cars were a different story.
R A Bennell wrote:
On the other hand, GM made some darned good vehicles in the mid to late
60's. I still have a 68 Chevy pickup and it rides as good as any truck I
have ever driven. Everytime I
Zeitgeist wrote:
Everybody's a critic, and in keeping with my shallow and vapid ways, I
don't have any actual experience with their products or engineering,
but I've always hated GM purely on aesthetic grounds. I came of
automotive age in the early '80's, and they made (and still do)
Heh, I
On 11/29/05, Hans Neureiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And Ford? hideously offensive looks like the whole line over the past 15
years. All look like Tauruses (Tauri ?), including the newest Jaguar.
The X-type and S-type look like Tauri... but the XJ looks like a Crown Vic!!!
Alex Chamberlain
It has become fashionable to bash GM lately. I recognize that there are
a lot of problems at GM right now and certainly GM made some really
lousy cars in the 70's and 80's. GM also gave us some pretty fantastic
ideas. GM was the first domestic company to build a front wheel drive
car (1966 Olds
Donald Snook wrote:
It has become fashionable to bash GM lately. I recognize that there are
a lot of problems at GM right now and certainly GM made some really
lousy cars in the 70's and 80's.
GM ain't what they used to be, and that's a GOOD thing. I drove my
roommate's '99 Chevy Malibu
R A Bennell wrote:
I had a 74 Vega brand new. The sheetmetal was recycled and rusted and it was
noisy but it was a cheap fuel efficient car and served me well for the
roughly 3 years that I drove it. I'm in Canada so the prices may be out of
whack for you but I paid $2850 for it brand new and
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