Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-11 Thread andrew strasfogel
, 2008 4:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Good for him. Wonder how many of those miles he actually needed a full sized pickup?? And how many miles were simply wasting fuel, taking up excessive space in the road

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-11 Thread E M
] Behalf Of Zoltan Finks Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:44 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Good for him. Wonder how many of those miles he actually needed a full sized pickup?? And how many miles were simply wasting fuel

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-11 Thread R A Bennell
Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Good for him. Wonder how many of those miles he actually needed a full sized pickup?? And how many miles were simply wasting fuel, taking up excessive space in the road, and spewing high emissions. Brian On Feb 9, 2008 9:39 AM, OK Don

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread Zoltan Finks
Good for him. Wonder how many of those miles he actually needed a full sized pickup?? And how many miles were simply wasting fuel, taking up excessive space in the road, and spewing high emissions. Brian On Feb 9, 2008 9:39 AM, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of high mileage, I heard a

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread Zoltan Finks
had 990 miles on the odometer when I got it in 1995. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Landenberger Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:09 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread Bill R
Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Good for him. Wonder how many of those miles he actually needed a full sized pickup?? And how many miles were simply wasting fuel, taking up excessive space in the road, and spewing high emissions. Brian On Feb 9, 2008 9:39 AM, OK Don

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread Robert Rentfro
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig McCluskey Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:03 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:45:30 -0800 Zoltan Finks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's pretty interesting. I could

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread OK Don
Correct - he delivers meat and seafood North of Chicago. On Feb 10, 2008 7:16 AM, Bill R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, he was using it on a sales route, so the truck was a delivery vehicle. Anybody have a better memory that mine? BillR -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK There are three kinds of

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread E M
yeah, I think the badge is to honour the car's accomplishment. Ed 300E On 10/02/2008, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:45:30 -0800 Zoltan Finks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's pretty interesting. I could qualify for a badge with our 190D, though the vast

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread Hendrik Fay
I suppose it is possible to wear the grille badge as a lapel pin :-D Hendrik lots of miles but no pins or badges to show off E M wrote: yeah, I think the badge is to honour the car's accomplishment. Ed 300E ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread LWB250
I had boxes of these things. MBUSA will send you the forms without question and jut as quickly send you the badges and lapel pins. After I got rid of my last MB I put them on eBay and got some crazy money for them. It's amazing what idiots on eBay will pay for stuff. I just found a Karmann

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-10 Thread Zoltan Finks
I thought of that after I sent the post - the fact that he was probably using it for work. I have a lot less qualms with folks driving trucks if they actually need them most of the time. So my gripe may be applied to the other millions of Americans who derive their toughness from their pickup.

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-09 Thread LarryT
PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] I'm pretty sure MBOZ has stopped handing out badges but I can't be bothered displaying that I drive an old car with lots of miles

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-09 Thread Curt Raymond
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm in KMS here, at 365,000 at the moment. Wonder if she'll ever see 500,000 ?? :-) Ed 300E

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] now that + 87 300TD

2008-02-09 Thread Bill Ringgold
Jacksonville FL 1981 300SD 299k miles -Original Message- From: Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: 2/8/08 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] I'm pretty sure MBOZ has stopped handing out badges but I can't

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread E M
then they probably own me two so far. hee hee Ed 300E On 08/02/2008, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:08:29 -0500 E M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At what mileage do they start issuing them? Ed 300E 365,000 kms. 250,000 km = 155342.8 miles Craig

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:08:29 -0500 E M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At what mileage do they start issuing them? Ed 300E 365,000 kms. 250,000 km = 155342.8 miles Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor:

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread R A Bennell
] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] I'm in KMS here, at 365,000 at the moment. Wonder if she'll ever see 500,000 ?? :-) Ed 300E On 08/02/2008, Chuck Landenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread R A Bennell
Landenberger Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:09 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion to miles to you Take care, Chuck On Feb 8, 2008

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Chuck Landenberger
Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion to miles to you Take care, Chuck On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:08 PM, E M wrote: At what mileage do they start issuing them? Ed 300E 365,000 kms. ___

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread E M
I'm in KMS here, at 365,000 at the moment. Wonder if she'll ever see 500,000 ?? :-) Ed 300E On 08/02/2008, Chuck Landenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion to miles to you Take care, Chuck

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread andrew strasfogel
it in 1995. Randy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Landenberger Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:09 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Ed, 250,000

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread E M
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Landenberger Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:09 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion to miles to you Take

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread E M
At what mileage do they start issuing them? Ed 300E 365,000 kms. On 08/02/2008, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:05:19 -0500 andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should make it proud by purchasing and mounting a high mileage radiator badge from

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Hendrik Fay
I have seen 100,000kmh ones but that was for cars back in the 60's. Hendrik no mileage badges Craig McCluskey wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:08:29 -0500 E M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At what mileage do they start issuing them? Ed 300E 365,000 kms. 250,000 km = 155342.8 miles

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Ed Booher
On Feb 8, 2008 6:53 PM, Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen 100,000kmh ones but that was for cars back in the 60's. Hendrik no mileage badges At 100,000kmh they'd better give you a burial because the re-entry from orbit will kill you. Ed -- I'm a Night Elf Mohawk! - Mr. T.

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Tarek Elshenawy
250,000km 500,000km 1,000,000km -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E M Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 7:03 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] I seem to recall a number of years ago

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Chuck Landenberger
: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion to miles to you Take care, Chuck On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:08 PM, E M wrote: At what mileage do they start issuing them? Ed 300E 365,000 kms

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Hendrik Fay
I'm pretty sure MBOZ has stopped handing out badges but I can't be bothered displaying that I drive an old car with lots of miles under the wheels and the odo in my 123 has stopped working but I guess it is closing in on 250K. Looking at buying a 300TE with 350K on the clock but I rather have

Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot]

2008-02-08 Thread Timothy Robinson
To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] High mileage badges [was Re: It's a plot] Ed, 250,000 kilometers, 500,000 kilometers 1,000,000 kilometers. I'll leave the conversion to miles to you Take care, Chuck On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:08 PM, E M wrote: At what