Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
My first car summer was a 31 Model A Ford 5-window coupe that had just been semi-restored; looked great and was in reasonably good condition; usually drove it at redline - 55 to 60 mph. It literally hummed; worst thing about it was getting it stopped. Girl friend (SWMBO) loved it, and I'm still in trouble for selling it and buying a ragged '40 Ford. Wilton Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My first car (that I was totally responsible for i.e. license, insurance, all maintenance and any other expenses) was a '63 beetle that my olderbrother gave up on. He had rebuilt the motor using over-sized pistons, the engine made a ticking noise when done, so he bought a '68 squareback. I Ifound a used motor for the beetle and drove it off to college, University of Wisconsin - adjusting the valves every 2000 miles laying on cold wet pavement in the street outside my apartment was miserable. The car was black with the big canvass sunroof. I could stand while driving, straddling the shift lever between my legs with my upper body sticking out of the sunroof, steering with my left hand and working the accelerator pedal with my left foot. In my sophomore year, I rented an apartment which had a locked storage area in the basement, and using the How to Keep your Volkswagen ALIVE book, I took the role of the Complete Idiot and proceeded to tear apart the ticking engine. I could find nothing wrong, got a reference for a good VW mechanic in the area, put all the pieces in boxes and took them to his shop. He called me a couple days later and said Fixed, that will be $15 please. The crank gear that drove the distributor was damaged, and that was making the ticking noise. He pressed off the old and installed a used gear. I put it all back together, installed that engine and motored happily off. However, lack of passenger heat and the frequency of the valve adjustments laying in snow or on wet cold pavement was loosing all appeal, so I sold that car for $300. The replacement was a '67 Plymouth VIP, with a Commando V. 383 cubic inches, but mine had the smaller carb and smaller intake valve openings. It also burned almost as much oil as gasoline. It really could roll coal, especially on the freeway. Moving up from the VW to the VIP, I thought the car had tremendous power. Drove it for a year or two, the engine got weaker and weaker and finally was only running on 5 or 6 of the 8 cylinders. I sold it for scrap for $75, but before I sold it I removed the hood ornament and some other MOPAR bits that one of the many mechanics who worked on the car admired, and sold those bits for another $75. The brake lights didn't work when I got the car, so I ran new wire to the rear window and installed trailer lights there as brake lights. I was amazed I was never pulled over and questioned about that. My older brother had by then destroyed the squareback, and replaced it with a '73 super beetle, for which he paid the princely sum of $100 circa 1990. He was in graduate school then, didn't really need a car but did need a bicycle. I had a nice Schwinn ten speed that I bought for $100, so I traded him. The Hundred Dollar Car as it was known was terribly rusty and again had the miserable air-cooled VW passenger heat (or lack thereof). I suffered through another winter in Wisconsin. The brakes were weak and the tires needed replacing, and I think it also needed new tie rod ends. I took it to our family mechanic back in northern WI for the work. He put the car up on his lift, took one look at the rust, gently put the car back down and told me he could see no value in doing anything to the car and advised that it was too unsafe to drive, so that one also went to the junkyard. By the way, said junkyard in northern WI, Floyds Auto Salvage was were all Dillon vehicles which were scrapped went back then. We had a very good relationship with Floyd and his sons. They had dedicated one row just for Dillon vehicles, making it easier for us to pay our respects when we went buy to get parts for the current fleet. After that I went through another hand-me-down family car, then decided to be car-less my senior year. When I graduated I bought a used '92 Honda Accord EX coupe. That was a decent car, drove it for about four years. I'd bought it for $11k with less than 50k miles, sold it four years later with over 100k for $6400. The only car I wish I had kept was that VIP. I had a lead on a 440 V8 from a police car, and really wanted to swap that in, but just didn't have the time and money while in college. Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Fury Here's a picture of a similar car. Mine was red with a black top. https://www.flickr.com/photos/carphotosbyrichard/4595509050/ -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
My first car (that I was totally responsible for i.e. license, insurance, all maintenance and any other expenses) was a '63 beetle that my older brother gave up on. He had rebuilt the motor using over-sized pistons, the engine made a ticking noise when done, so he bought a '68 squareback. I found a used motor for the beetle and drove it off to college, University of Wisconsin - adjusting the valves every 2000 miles laying on cold wet pavement in the street outside my apartment was miserable. The car was black with the big canvass sunroof. I could stand while driving, straddling the shift lever between my legs with my upper body sticking out of the sunroof, steering with my left hand and working the accelerator pedal with my left foot. In my sophomore year, I rented an apartment which had a locked storage area in the basement, and using the How to Keep your Volkswagen ALIVE book, I took the role of the Complete Idiot and proceeded to tear apart the ticking engine. I could find nothing wrong, got a reference for a good VW mechanic in the area, put all the pieces in boxes and took them to his shop. He called me a couple days later and said Fixed, that will be $15 please. The crank gear that drove the distributor was damaged, and that was making the ticking noise. He pressed off the old and installed a used gear. I put it all back together, installed that engine and motored happily off. However, lack of passenger heat and the frequency of the valve adjustments laying in snow or on wet cold pavement was loosing all appeal, so I sold that car for $300. The replacement was a '67 Plymouth VIP, with a Commando V. 383 cubic inches, but mine had the smaller carb and smaller intake valve openings. It also burned almost as much oil as gasoline. It really could roll coal, especially on the freeway. Moving up from the VW to the VIP, I thought the car had tremendous power. Drove it for a year or two, the engine got weaker and weaker and finally was only running on 5 or 6 of the 8 cylinders. I sold it for scrap for $75, but before I sold it I removed the hood ornament and some other MOPAR bits that one of the many mechanics who worked on the car admired, and sold those bits for another $75. The brake lights didn't work when I got the car, so I ran new wire to the rear window and installed trailer lights there as brake lights. I was amazed I was never pulled over and questioned about that. My older brother had by then destroyed the squareback, and replaced it with a '73 super beetle, for which he paid the princely sum of $100 circa 1990. He was in graduate school then, didn't really need a car but did need a bicycle. I had a nice Schwinn ten speed that I bought for $100, so I traded him. The Hundred Dollar Car as it was known was terribly rusty and again had the miserable air-cooled VW passenger heat (or lack thereof). I suffered through another winter in Wisconsin. The brakes were weak and the tires needed replacing, and I think it also needed new tie rod ends. I took it to our family mechanic back in northern WI for the work. He put the car up on his lift, took one look at the rust, gently put the car back down and told me he could see no value in doing anything to the car and advised that it was too unsafe to drive, so that one also went to the junkyard. By the way, said junkyard in northern WI, Floyds Auto Salvage was were all Dillon vehicles which were scrapped went back then. We had a very good relationship with Floyd and his sons. They had dedicated one row just for Dillon vehicles, making it easier for us to pay our respects when we went buy to get parts for the current fleet. After that I went through another hand-me-down family car, then decided to be car-less my senior year. When I graduated I bought a used '92 Honda Accord EX coupe. That was a decent car, drove it for about four years. I'd bought it for $11k with less than 50k miles, sold it four years later with over 100k for $6400. The only car I wish I had kept was that VIP. I had a lead on a 440 V8 from a police car, and really wanted to swap that in, but just didn't have the time and money while in college. Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Fury Here's a picture of a similar car. Mine was red with a black top. https://www.flickr.com/photos/carphotosbyrichard/4595509050/ -Max ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
http://s131.photobucket.com/user/oldsub86/media/2012_0716Hawaii_Wedding0282_zpsb528f7cf.jpg.html http://s131.photobucket.com/user/oldsub86/media/2012_0716Hawaii_Wedding0281_zpse78ada8b.jpg.html Ala Wai yacht harbour in front of the Ilikai hotel in Honolulu about 2 years ago RB On 02/02/2015 1:05 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Don't say such things. If I had some space I'd love to have a 2CV or 4CV. I have in mind adding another bay onto my garage and expanding the little add-on on the back of the garage to full size which would allow me to move the snowmobiles under cover, have the lawnmower and plow over there and get a car into the bay for repairs and such. The stock I have from my employer would nearly cover such a project right now but we also need a roof on the house and a furnace which I guess get precedence. Someday though... -Curt From: Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars dauphines are cool. I almost bought one for my first car (it was $35) but it had the dreaded automatic stick shift transmission and fortunately i studied it and read about it and didn't buy it. The 4cv was the post wwII renault made from 1947 to 1961 i guess they are common in france …. who knows now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4CV i would sell mine xx r On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
No shooting. Between having to pop for 18 hours of tuition and a substantial IRS bill that looms in April, I’m hanging on to as much of my disposable income as I can for now. I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to avoid an even larger IRS bill in the future as I lose the youngster’s status as a dependent and the education credits. What’s worse is that a lot of my deductions have actually decreased and will continue to as our income increases. Guess it’s time for “additional withholding”…..ouch. Dan On Feb 1, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: FYI Cabela's Onyx Beretta hasn't offered the Onyx model in years, but, now, Cabela's has resurrected it. The shotgun is offered in a sporting version, trap gun, and field gun. It has the standard features of any other Beretta over/under with a low profile and strong action. It's a handsome gun with a black anodized receiver and an upper mid-grade walnut stock. The gun sells for about $2,500. How's the shootin going? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
I've been doing that for years, as DINKs (dual income, no kids) we get screwed... This year I'm experimenting with using the amount I would have withheld for charitable contributions. Specifically the Project for Awesome. -Curt From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan No shooting. Between having to pop for 18 hours of tuition and a substantial IRS bill that looms in April, I’m hanging on to as much of my disposable income as I can for now. I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to avoid an even larger IRS bill in the future as I lose the youngster’s status as a dependent and the education credits. What’s worse is that a lot of my deductions have actually decreased and will continue to as our income increases. Guess it’s time for “additional withholding”…..ouch. Dan On Feb 1, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: FYI Cabela's Onyx Beretta hasn't offered the Onyx model in years, but, now, Cabela's has resurrected it. The shotgun is offered in a sporting version, trap gun, and field gun. It has the standard features of any other Beretta over/under with a low profile and strong action. It's a handsome gun with a black anodized receiver and an upper mid-grade walnut stock. The gun sells for about $2,500. How's the shootin going? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
Original Message From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes Subject: Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan No shooting. snip I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to avoid an even larger IRS bill in the future as I lose the youngster’s status as a dependent and the education credits. What’s worse is that a lot of my deductions have actually decreased and will continue to as our income increases. Welcome to the middle class in the 21st century. For a shooting analogy, it seems every time the government aims it's tax at the rich, the shot drops and squarely hits the middle class. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
Detroit and Chicago have a lot of catching up to do! Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Donald Snook via Mercedes Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 11:31 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting No worries, I would be thrilled to talk about this issue and many others. Unfortunately, we have not filed suit on this case yet. I can tell you a few interesting things that are a matter of public record: According to the FBI, between 2007 and 2011 there was an average of 396 shootings by police officers resulting in death in the entire United States. According to the FBI, there were 698,460 police officers in the United States in 2011. Based on the FBI numbers there was 1 shooting death for every 1763.78 officers in the United States. Between November 2010 and July 10, 2012, WPD Officers shot at least 16 different people, killing seven (7) individuals, and wounding at least nine (9) others. In 2012 alone, Wichita Police Department officers shot and killed 5 people and wounded 9 others. According to the FBI, Wichita had 646 officers in 2011 and a population of 386,796 people. Wichita has 1 police officer for every 598.75 people. Wichita's officer to shooting death ratio is 1 death for every 129 officers, which is 13. times greater than the national average. In comparison to Wichita, Detroit, Michigan has 2,760 police officers and a population of 713,239 people. Detroit has 1 police officer for every 258.41 people. Detroit had 411 total homicides in 2012, 377 in 2011, and 327 in 2010, which is approximately 14 times greater than the average rate in Wichita. Despite having nearly twice the population of Wichita, and more than three times the number of police officers, Detroit only had 3 officer-involved shooting deaths in 2012. Detroit has 1 shooting death to every 920 police officers, which is 9 times LESS than the ratio for Wichita. Chicago has a population of 2,703,713 in 2011 and 12,092 officers for an officer to citizen ratio of 223.59 to 1. Chicago had 8 officer shooting deaths in 2012. The ratio of shooting deaths to police officers in Chicago is one death for every 1511 police officers. Even though Chicago has approximately eight times as many people as Wichita, the ratio of shooting death to police officers in Wichita (1/129) is nearly twelve times greater than the ratio in Chicago (1/1511). -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 12:24 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Understood. It wasn't my intent to put you in a position of discussing protected speech. Thanks, Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respon d-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.sht ml Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
Just got in from clearing the driveway (mostly, I only did enough to get to work tomorrow, the rest can wait until the snow quits falling) and measured 8 1/2 but being that its powder that could be drifted one way or the other. I'd guess its low but thats just a guess. Got my '79 Polaris Cobra 340cc out (the other two that run are on the trailer) and promptly got stuck. Vintage sleds are difficult in deep snow because of limited suspension travel. You bottom out on the footboards and the track spins. I learned how to deal with it today though, power Power POWER! Get on the throttle and give 'er hell. When it starts to slow down rock side to side to pack the snow under the footboards and gain traction. Worked sweet, I bombed all over the yard. Took the Go-Pro with me, should have something neat on it. At one point I had the Go-Pro clipped to the left side footboard (I've got the clip on mount) and made a sharp left turn, the camera dipped under the snow like it was a boat in a big swell. Hope that came out... -Curt From: Dwight Giles dwight.gi...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com; Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? Take your passport just in case. Rain sleet here on top of 4 of fresh wet snow. On Feb 2, 2015 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -CurtFixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
Yabbut the worst part is that things like mortgage interest, a pretty decent deduction, is trending down as I pay off my house. Yet - as I get older I make more money (I’m not complaining about that, mind you!) I’ve got some credit card balances I’m thinking about taking a second mortgage out for to cut the interest cost and make the interest deductible…. Dan On Feb 2, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Welcome to the middle class in the 21st century. For a shooting analogy, it seems every time the government aims it's tax at the rich, the shot drops and squarely hits the middle class. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
On 02/02/2015 4:25 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Just got in from clearing the driveway (mostly, I only did enough to get to work tomorrow, the rest can wait until the snow quits falling) and measured 8 1/2 but being that its powder that could be drifted one way or the other. I'd guess its low but thats just a guess. Got my '79 Polaris Cobra 340cc out (the other two that run are on the trailer) and promptly got stuck. Vintage sleds are difficult in deep snow because of limited suspension travel. You bottom out on the footboards and the track spins. I learned how to deal with it today though, power Power POWER! Get on the throttle and give 'er hell. When it starts to slow down rock side to side to pack the snow under the footboards and gain traction. Worked sweet, I bombed all over the yard. Took the Go-Pro with me, should have something neat on it. At one point I had the Go-Pro clipped to the left side footboard (I've got the clip on mount) and made a sharp left turn, the camera dipped under the snow like it was a boat in a big swell. Hope that came out... -Curt So, does that mean that you have the sort of flat rubber track on the Polaris? Pretty much like the track on the old Skidoo? There were also cleated tracks available. I don't think they lasted as long but they sure had traction. One could pretty much go anywhere with those. Arctic Cat had the cleated tracks too back then. We had a friend who had a Polaris twin - free air style with the engine jugs sticking up through a hole in the cowling and it had the cleated track. I remember him going up a steep hill in deep fresh powder and not even slowing down. My machine had the flatter rubber track and I would get stuck just about anywhere. I could not climb the hill even if I followed in his track. RB ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:42:09 + (UTC) Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: OM61x is the same isn't it? These have the intake and exhaust manifolds on the passenger (right) side. Craig OM601 is different, nothing crosses over the valve cover and the airbox is on the driver side while the exhaust manifold is on the passenger. I'm kind embarrassed how long I had to think to come up with that conclusion... -Curt ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] First Cars
Theres a kit for $150 or so which includes everything you need from the bracket to the LED to get the alternator alternating. I could put it together cheaper but would waste a bunch of time working out the bracket... -Curt From: Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] First Cars Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: I bet. We're talking about converting our '52 Farmall Super M to 12v and keeping the 6v starter. My dad did a quick and dirty conversion on his H. He bought a 12v internally regulated alternator but never got around to fabricating a mounting bracket for it. So basically it got a 12v coil and battery, and you hooked it up to a battery charger once a week or so. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
A neighbor in Houston who was a trauma surgeon moved to Atlanta and bought a 2CV to drive to/from work. His wife is French, he has some sort of French background too, or he might have been a coonass, whatever I never asked, a French name. But he liked the car, and was just weird enough to pull it off. --R On 2/2/15 6:40 PM, LarryT via Mercedes wrote: There's a guy who drives his 2CV to the gun range I am a member of. Last week it was cold out (30s) and he arrived with a sheet of canvas covering 90% of the radiator opening - just like the big trucks. ;-) I haven't spoken to him in a long time and don't know how many miles he puts on it... but he drives it all the time. At the end of WW2 Prof. Porsche was put into a French jail - I wonder if he provided some design assistance then? It was introduced in 1948 - hmmm LarryT 91 300D On 2/2/2015 2:05 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Don't say such things. If I had some space I'd love to have a 2CV or 4CV. I have in mind adding another bay onto my garage and expanding the little add-on on the back of the garage to full size which would allow me to move the snowmobiles under cover, have the lawnmower and plow over there and get a car into the bay for repairs and such. The stock I have from my employer would nearly cover such a project right now but we also need a roof on the house and a furnace which I guess get precedence. Someday though... -Curt From: Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com [SNIP] ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
After a year of problems with her eyes, Shirley can finally read! She got new lenses after her cataract surgeries last summer, but with the vitrectomies in her left eye and the capsulotomy in her right eye, her eyes changed enough to make those lenses useless for reading. At her final visit at Eye Associates in Santa Fe with the retinologist on 13 January, we asked about her reading problems. The technician had done a refraction at the beginning of her appointment; the doctor said that the new prescription just generated would solve her reading problems. Shirley then went to Eye Associates Optical in Los Alamos (affiliated with the medical section of Eye Associates) with the new prescription. We were expecting to pay for new lenses, but when the lady there looked at her record, she said that since it was so soon after she got her previous lenses, they would cover the cost of the new lenses! Praise the Lord! I was somewhat apprehensive that the new lenses would really solve the problem, but when Shirley got the lenses, she said she could read. She has packed away the large magnifying glass she had been using and is reading well. She may have to have a capsulotomy on her left eye in the future, but she is functioning well now. In other news :-), WE HAVE A CONTRACT ON OUR HOUSE!!! Another Praise the Lord! The contract is with a young man named Peter and his wife Sarah, who are currently residing in Houston, Texas. Peter grew up in Albuquerque and Sarah grew up here in Los Alamos. Sarah had seen our home on zillow.com and had asked her parents, who live not too far from us here on Barranca Mesa, to come and look at the house. They came on 24 January and were impressed by the house. After they reported back to her, I received an email from and called Peter and later received a call from Sarah. In our conversation, Peter said he had received his official offer from the Lab here and was planning on coming out for a house-hunting trip on 14 February. After talking with his new supervisor at the Lab, Peter found they wanted him to start work on 06 April! He moved up his trip to this past weekend, with us showing the house to him and his mother-in-law on Saturday, 31 January. Late yesterday afternoon he called us and said he wanted to come over to talk about an offer. After he made a reasonable offer, we hashed out the details and agreed to meet at Los Alamos National Bank (LANB) at 0900 this morning. One detail that concerned me is that the house will have to close on 01 April, with them getting posession then, 8-1/2 weeks from now. After praying about our meeting, I met Peter in the lobby of LANB. We wondered whether we should go to the title company in the lobby, or to the bank's loan officers on the second floor. We decided to go to the title company, which proved to be the correct choice. The lady with whom we spoke at the title company, Patti, was, as Peter said, Awesome! We went into the office and I said, This young man wants to buy my house. Peter said that we were wondering whether we should see them or the loan officer first. Patti said we had come to the correct place and that they did this every day. She said we didn't need a realtor and would be happy to guide us through the process. She then took us into their conference room where we discussed the transaction. She then got copies of a contract form for the three of us and went through each item, telling us what it meant and suggesting how we should handle it. Peter and I then went about filling out the contract form, discussing how we would handle closing costs, inspections, and other things. After filling it out, the president of the title company reviewed it and said things were OK. We then went across the lobby to the bank where Peter transferred the earnest money to the title company's escrow account. After a brief trip back to the title company to find telephone numbers for inspectors, we shook hands and departed. So, praise the Lord, we are progressing on the sale of the house! Things to pray about now include, - Getting a high-enough appraisal for Peter to be able to get the loan from LANB, - Timely processing and funding of the loan, - Timely inspections and survey, - Wisdom, health, strength, and help for Shirley and me to get all things done we need to to be able to move out on 01 April and head for Indiana. (I'm in the middle of refurbishing our utility trailer and our vehicles need some work -- not the least of which is cleaning the mice which recently took up residence and their smelly, potentially disease-laden detritus out of the heater of our Big Red Van. It seems a little overwhelming, but I know the Lord is in charge -- though sometimes it's difficult to remember in the thick of things.) Thank you all for patiently following our saga and for all your prayers. God bless, Craig Craig -- Present:'95
Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars
Dave wrote: The decent money at the time I bought the VW was a $2.25 per hour union job... '60? - yes, that sounds like rollin' in the dough. Interesting. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:16:02 -0600 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, the OM602 has both intake and exhaust on the same side - the left side. Hmmm ... I learn something new! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
Original Message From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 4:36 PM To: Mercedes List Reply To: Dan Penoff Subject: Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan Yabbut the worst part is that things like mortgage interest, a pretty decent deduction, is trending down as I pay off my house. Yet - as I get older I make more money Almost seems designed that way... I’ve got some credit card balances I’m thinking about taking a second mortgage out for to cut the interest cost and make the interest deductible…. Mortgage interest deduction is a scam. On every dollar in interest you pay, you deduct 28 cents from your tax bill. The only ones making out are the banks. Spend a dollar, get 28 cents back. Better odds at a casino. Pay the house off, and be done. OR Rent it out, buy a multi-million dollar mansion, don't make a payment, and wait to see if the bank ever throws you out. I have read a lot of stories about banks not foreclosing for various reasons. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
You should feel good to support the smart investments that your tax money is used for! If you take out a second mortgage or something like that, rates are very low now (4%) so the interest deduction won't be that much. --R On 2/2/15 5:36 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Yabbut the worst part is that things like mortgage interest, a pretty decent deduction, is trending down as I pay off my house. Yet - as I get older I make more money (I’m not complaining about that, mind you!) I’ve got some credit card balances I’m thinking about taking a second mortgage out for to cut the interest cost and make the interest deductible…. Dan On Feb 2, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Welcome to the middle class in the 21st century. For a shooting analogy, it seems every time the government aims it's tax at the rich, the shot drops and squarely hits the middle class. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
2CV is air cooled, like a VW but the engine is at the front, its front drive after all, 2 cylinder. So he had canvas covering the grill but theres no radiator... :) -Curt From: LarryT via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars There's a guy who drives his 2CV to the gun range I am a member of. Last week it was cold out (30s) and he arrived with a sheet of canvas covering 90% of the radiator opening - just like the big trucks. ;-) I haven't spoken to him in a long time and don't know how many miles he puts on it... but he drives it all the time. At the end of WW2 Prof. Porsche was put into a French jail - I wonder if he provided some design assistance then? It was introduced in 1948 - hmmm LarryT 91 300D On 2/2/2015 2:05 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Don't say such things. If I had some space I'd love to have a 2CV or 4CV. I have in mind adding another bay onto my garage and expanding the little add-on on the back of the garage to full size which would allow me to move the snowmobiles under cover, have the lawnmower and plow over there and get a car into the bay for repairs and such. The stock I have from my employer would nearly cover such a project right now but we also need a roof on the house and a furnace which I guess get precedence. Someday though... -Curt From: Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com [SNIP] ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
I grew up in Aiken - great little town - I was there from age 5 to 12 and spent most of my time (exc for school) in the woods playing Army and Cowboy and Indians with my 2 best friends. this was pre network - we didn't have a TV part of the time. Rt 1 box 400H was the address ;-) I wonder if our house is still there? LarryT 91 300D On 2/2/2015 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
'Hope it continues to go well with Shirley's sight and the house sale. Wilton Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 7:21 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: and their smelly, potentially disease-laden detritus out of the heater of our Big Red Van. It seems a little overwhelming, but I know the Lord is in charge -- though sometimes it's difficult to remember ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
OM61x is the same isn't it? OM601 is different, nothing crosses over the valve cover and the airbox is on the driver side while the exhaust manifold is on the passenger. I'm kind embarrassed how long I had to think to come up with that conclusion... -Curt From: Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:16:02 -0600 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, the OM602 has both intake and exhaust on the same side - the left side. Hmmm ... I learn something new! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars
On 2/1/2015 9:29 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes wrote: David wrote: By then I was earning decent money... What type of work in Denver did you do? What part of town? I started working for a small civil engg firm in Denver in '78 but pay never got good. We lived south of DU. mao I was there in '59 and '60 doing various college drop out blue collar stuff. Originally I had intended to go to a gunsmith school, the Colorado School of Trades, but that didn't work out. The decent money at the time I bought the VW was a $2.25 per hour union job at a pork processing plant. Lots of overtime so I was rich. I lived in a rooming house in Edgewater that cost $30 a month. Those were my strong back/weak mind days. Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
This machine has a cleated track, its an odd one because its an all the way across cleat on a '79. Most cleated tracks were 2/3 alternating by then. The 2/3 tracks are much more stable and less likely to ice skate if you fish tail on ice. Cleated tracks suck, they're heavy, rotten on ice and in powder they dig too much so if you don't keep on the power you sink like a stone. The early Ski-Doo rubber tracks are much lighter but only used a 1/4 lug so they don't do much in powder but are much better (though still poor) than a cleated track on ice. By about '73 Ski-Doo had gone to a 3/4 rubber lug track that was vastly superior to cleated tracks. Polaris and Arctic Cat hung on to cleats through about 1980 or '81 before they gave them up. All the cool kids with the muscle sleds convert from cleated to rubber tracks. Cleated tracks are pretty much banned in racing because the cleats become projectiles if the track throws one... -Curt From: Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? On 02/02/2015 4:25 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Just got in from clearing the driveway (mostly, I only did enough to get to work tomorrow, the rest can wait until the snow quits falling) and measured 8 1/2 but being that its powder that could be drifted one way or the other. I'd guess its low but thats just a guess. Got my '79 Polaris Cobra 340cc out (the other two that run are on the trailer) and promptly got stuck. Vintage sleds are difficult in deep snow because of limited suspension travel. You bottom out on the footboards and the track spins. I learned how to deal with it today though, power Power POWER! Get on the throttle and give 'er hell. When it starts to slow down rock side to side to pack the snow under the footboards and gain traction. Worked sweet, I bombed all over the yard. Took the Go-Pro with me, should have something neat on it. At one point I had the Go-Pro clipped to the left side footboard (I've got the clip on mount) and made a sharp left turn, the camera dipped under the snow like it was a boat in a big swell. Hope that came out... -Curt So, does that mean that you have the sort of flat rubber track on the Polaris? Pretty much like the track on the old Skidoo? There were also cleated tracks available. I don't think they lasted as long but they sure had traction. One could pretty much go anywhere with those. Arctic Cat had the cleated tracks too back then. We had a friend who had a Polaris twin - free air style with the engine jugs sticking up through a hole in the cowling and it had the cleated track. I remember him going up a steep hill in deep fresh powder and not even slowing down. My machine had the flatter rubber track and I would get stuck just about anywhere. I could not climb the hill even if I followed in his track. RB ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Dan
Yes i just did that with my mortgage when i finally converted it to fixed from variable rate. On Feb 2, 2015 5:36 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Yabbut the worst part is that things like mortgage interest, a pretty decent deduction, is trending down as I pay off my house. Yet - as I get older I make more money (I’m not complaining about that, mind you!) I’ve got some credit card balances I’m thinking about taking a second mortgage out for to cut the interest cost and make the interest deductible…. Dan On Feb 2, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Welcome to the middle class in the 21st century. For a shooting analogy, it seems every time the government aims it's tax at the rich, the shot drops and squarely hits the middle class. Rick Sent from my BlackBerry Z10 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] First Cars
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: I bet. We're talking about converting our '52 Farmall Super M to 12v and keeping the 6v starter. My dad did a quick and dirty conversion on his H. He bought a 12v internally regulated alternator but never got around to fabricating a mounting bracket for it. So basically it got a 12v coil and battery, and you hooked it up to a battery charger once a week or so. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
There's a guy who drives his 2CV to the gun range I am a member of. Last week it was cold out (30s) and he arrived with a sheet of canvas covering 90% of the radiator opening - just like the big trucks. ;-) I haven't spoken to him in a long time and don't know how many miles he puts on it... but he drives it all the time. At the end of WW2 Prof. Porsche was put into a French jail - I wonder if he provided some design assistance then? It was introduced in 1948 - hmmm LarryT 91 300D On 2/2/2015 2:05 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Don't say such things. If I had some space I'd love to have a 2CV or 4CV. I have in mind adding another bay onto my garage and expanding the little add-on on the back of the garage to full size which would allow me to move the snowmobiles under cover, have the lawnmower and plow over there and get a car into the bay for repairs and such. The stock I have from my employer would nearly cover such a project right now but we also need a roof on the house and a furnace which I guess get precedence. Someday though... -Curt From: Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com [SNIP] ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] Extraterrestrials. was: OT - First Cars
A friend who worked in the psych department at the medical school told about a patient who was sent in from another hospital claiming he had been abducted by aliens. He was a farmer who was walking across a field when three large creatures with three legs came running at him from the woods. He tried to fight them off, but two of the creatures held each hand and the third pressed something hot on the back of his neck. He didn't remember anything after that until he woke up about a week later in a field that was 5 or 10 miles from his own farm. He remained quite upset and unable to work, so the local doctors sent him to the medical school which accepted unusual cases. On his arrival, the ER resident sent him to the psych ward which did lab tests that turned out to be abnormal. After a week of psychotherapy, the doctors were still puzzled because he told the same story in every session and his behavior was perfectly normal. Finally the attending told someone to shine a UV light on the back of his neck. Under UV light a large diffuse spot which seemed to have tentacles branching out from it could be seen. His diagnosis was changed to possible insect bite and he was sent to the medical ward. Since I didn't know anyone there, I never heard what happened to him after that. Gerry On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:00:00 -0500 David Kristin Gilmore via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My first car was a 1953 Studebaker coupe I bought in 1958 from a used car lot in Chicago. It had been repainted (yellow) and I suspect the odometer rolled back but it was lovely. I don't think there has been a more graceful car made. Whitewall tires. Three on the tree with overdrive. Flathead straight 6. Not very powerful but smooth and it handled much better than my folk's Pontiac station wagon. In that car I experienced an epiphany. I was driving across Kansas on my way to start a new life in Denver. Suddenly everything was suffused with the classic glow and I felt a sense of well being unknown before. The feeling lasted perhaps five minutes. I had ingested only coffee and scrambled eggs at a truck stop diner not long before. Just youth, I guess. The Studebaker got me to Denver but it sure didn't run well. I read the mile high elevation had an effect on internal combustion engines. I found a dial on the carburetor that allowed it to be set leaner and that solved the problem. The next big event was one day on my way to work the rear end locked up at about 60 mph. A seal had gone and leaked the lube out. Not long after that was fixed the foot brake went to the floor and I sailed through a stoplight. (This was before the day of two chambered brake reservoirs.) A month or so later the transmission began making bad sounds and shifting hard. By then I was earning decent money so I traded it in on a new VW Beetle. Fortunately the dealer didn't test drive the Studebaker. Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-lyrebird-perfectly-imitates-laser-gun-sounds ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9034 - Release Date: 01/31/15 -- arche...@embarqmail.com arche...@embarqmail.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
Yes my typo. Of course RF fender. On Feb 1, 2015 11:29 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:31:15 -0500 Dwight Giles via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/4868028916.html Is that a turbo? Should be. Can't see gills on lf fender. I thought the gills were on the right front fender, to provide more cooling for the turbo, which is generally on the right side. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
The gill is clearly present in the first picture. Looks like a nice car for a decent price. -- Max Dillon Charleston, SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 240D on CL and a pin stripe
Yes. It's an interesting color for sure. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Same brown interior as Dimitri's-formerly Curt's formerly my 240D. Has white exterior On Feb 1, 2015 12:07 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: As I mentioned earlier, here is my 240D up on CL: http://newjersey.craigslist.org/cto/4872031344.html And in related news, some photos of the pin stripe I had done on the car: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimekop/16416604751/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimekop/15798313533/ I found the stripper who did these cars in the early 80s for the local MB dealers. I've owned several cars with his work, as they're very common around here. I had him do this car, as I really like the look. He matches his style of 30 years ago exactly, which, of course, is important to me. Jaime Jaime, that is a really unusual interior color. Do you know what the number and common name is for it? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 240D on CL and a pin stripe
Funny how pin striping is making a comeback. Those hipster dudes at Mercedes Motoring are really into preserving them as well. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I found the stripper who did these cars Does he work in bow tie and G-string? :-) -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:05:31 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The stock I have from my employer would nearly cover such a project right now but we also need a roof on the house and a furnace which I guess get precedence. Yeah, strange how that works ... Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
I am happy for the both of you. Glad tidings are always welcome. Sure you want to move to Indiana? We just got whacked with a blizzard... :) Rick Who thinks Craig and Shirley will make a wonderful addition to the Hoosier state. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:31:08 -0500 Alice Strickland alice.strickl...@gmail.com wrote: 'Hope it continues to go well with Shirley's sight and the house sale. Thank you, Wilton. Any progress on your neues computenmachine? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing! -- Max Dillon Charleston, SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
That’s all great news, Craig. And it puts you in a far better timeframe for Indiana relative to the climate - at least now you won’t be moving up there in the dead of winter. As my maternal grandmother always said, “Everything always works out for the best.” I have yet to prove her wrong. Dan -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Craig via Mercedes Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 4:21 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)! After a year of problems with her eyes, Shirley can finally read! She got new lenses after her cataract surgeries last summer, but with the vitrectomies in her left eye and the capsulotomy in her right eye, her eyes changed enough to make those lenses useless for reading. At her final visit at Eye Associates in Santa Fe with the retinologist on 13 January, we asked about her reading problems. The technician had done a refraction at the beginning of her appointment; the doctor said that the new prescription just generated would solve her reading problems. Shirley then went to Eye Associates Optical in Los Alamos (affiliated with the medical section of Eye Associates) with the new prescription. We were expecting to pay for new lenses, but when the lady there looked at her record, she said that since it was so soon after she got her previous lenses, they would cover the cost of the new lenses! Praise the Lord! I was somewhat apprehensive that the new lenses would really solve the problem, but when Shirley got the lenses, she said she could read. She has packed away the large magnifying glass she had been using and is reading well. She may have to have a capsulotomy on her left eye in the future, but she is functioning well now. In other news :-), WE HAVE A CONTRACT ON OUR HOUSE!!! Another Praise the Lord! The contract is with a young man named Peter and his wife Sarah, who are currently residing in Houston, Texas. Peter grew up in Albuquerque and Sarah grew up here in Los Alamos. Sarah had seen our home on zillow.com and had asked her parents, who live not too far from us here on Barranca Mesa, to come and look at the house. They came on 24 January and were impressed by the house. After they reported back to her, I received an email from and called Peter and later received a call from Sarah. In our conversation, Peter said he had received his official offer from the Lab here and was planning on coming out for a house-hunting trip on 14 February. After talking with his new supervisor at the Lab, Peter found they wanted him to start work on 06 April! He moved up his trip to this past weekend, with us showing the house to him and his mother-in-law on Saturday, 31 January. Late yesterday afternoon he called us and said he wanted to come over to talk about an offer. After he made a reasonable offer, we hashed out the details and agreed to meet at Los Alamos National Bank (LANB) at 0900 this morning. One detail that concerned me is that the house will have to close on 01 April, with them getting posession then, 8-1/2 weeks from now. After praying about our meeting, I met Peter in the lobby of LANB. We wondered whether we should go to the title company in the lobby, or to the bank's loan officers on the second floor. We decided to go to the title company, which proved to be the correct choice. The lady with whom we spoke at the title company, Patti, was, as Peter said, Awesome! We went into the office and I said, This young man wants to buy my house. Peter said that we were wondering whether we should see them or the loan officer first. Patti said we had come to the correct place and that they did this every day. She said we didn't need a realtor and would be happy to guide us through the process. She then took us into their conference room where we discussed the transaction. She then got copies of a contract form for the three of us and went through each item, telling us what it meant and suggesting how we should handle it. Peter and I then went about filling out the contract form, discussing how we would handle closing costs, inspections, and other things. After filling it out, the president of the title company reviewed it and said things were OK. We then went across the lobby to the bank where Peter transferred the earnest money to the title company's escrow account. After a brief trip back to the title company to find telephone numbers for inspectors, we shook hands and departed. So, praise the Lord, we are progressing on the sale of the house! Things to pray about now include, - Getting a high-enough appraisal for Peter to be able to get the loan from LANB, - Timely processing and funding of the loan, - Timely inspections and survey, - Wisdom, health, strength, and help for Shirley and me to get all things done we need to to be able to move
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:16:33 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: That’s all great news, Craig. Thank you. And it puts you in a far better timeframe for Indiana relative to the climate - at least now you won’t be moving up there in the dead of winter. Yes, indeed. I wasn't looking forward to a three-vehicle caravan, two towing trailers, going to Indiana in the midst of winter. As my maternal grandmother always said, “Everything always works out for the best.” I have yet to prove her wrong. Good! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
You need a more powerful snowblower. I think mine was made by mistake, an 8hp engine on a 27 cut. Usually mine would have a 5hp. Its got so much oopmph it'll throw water. -Curt From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] O.T. - Interchange Manual
I've had decent luck finding the original part number and then doing google searches on the number until you find a good parts site. There you put the part number in and it lists all the applications/cars. Worked for heater cores anyway. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Visit a large local junkyard or your FLAPS. They should have the manual and be willing to help look up parts. -- Max Dillon Charleston, SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] I must be pregnant
I am not usually a Leadfoot, but that Jag was so fast and so fun to drive, that I did tend to drive it a little faster than normal. The car was just ready to leap (pun intended). The first time I drove it, the previous owner showed me how to take off from a stop without squealing the tires. It really took a concerted effort to take off slowly. But, it was scary fast when I floored at it any speed over 5 mph. I have heard people say a car will throw you back in your seat and I always thought that was an exaggeration. But, this car really would. And with all that torque, you really had to fight the wheel because the torque twisted the car. Don -Original Message- From: Craig [mailto:diese...@pisquared.net] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:26 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] I must be pregnant On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:44:21 + Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: One of the reasons I got rid of my Jag was because it was the opposite end of the spectrum from the 240D. It was scary fast. I was really worried I would end up with way too many tickets or crash it. Aha! Now we know the truth: Donald's alias is Leadfoot Louie! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Extraterrestrials. was: OT - First Cars
I thought alien ships only flew at night after the bars closed and those abducted only got colon exams. This is news, if the farmer was abducted in broad daylight. Grant who only hears the little voices in other peoples heads.. ;)) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:14 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: A friend who worked in the psych department at the medical school told about a patient who was sent in from another hospital claiming he had been abducted by aliens. He was a farmer who was walking across a field when three large creatures with three legs came running at him from the woods. He tried to fight them off, but two of the creatures held each hand and the third pressed something hot on the back of his neck. He didn't remember anything after that until he woke up about a week later in a field that was 5 or 10 miles from his own farm. He remained quite upset and unable to work, so the local doctors sent him to the medical school which accepted unusual cases. On his arrival, the ER resident sent him to the psych ward which did lab tests that turned out to be abnormal. After a week of psychotherapy, the doctors were still puzzled because he told the same story in every session and his behavior was perfectly normal. Finally the attending told someone to shine a UV light on the back of his neck. Under UV light a large diffuse spot which seemed to have tentacles branching out from it could be seen. His diagnosis was changed to possible insect bite and he was sent to the medical ward. Since I didn't know anyone there, I never heard what happened to him after that. Gerry On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 12:00:00 -0500 David Kristin Gilmore via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My first car was a 1953 Studebaker coupe I bought in 1958 from a used car lot in Chicago. It had been repainted (yellow) and I suspect the odometer rolled back but it was lovely. I don't think there has been a more graceful car made. Whitewall tires. Three on the tree with overdrive. Flathead straight 6. Not very powerful but smooth and it handled much better than my folk's Pontiac station wagon. In that car I experienced an epiphany. I was driving across Kansas on my way to start a new life in Denver. Suddenly everything was suffused with the classic glow and I felt a sense of well being unknown before. The feeling lasted perhaps five minutes. I had ingested only coffee and scrambled eggs at a truck stop diner not long before. Just youth, I guess. The Studebaker got me to Denver but it sure didn't run well. I read the mile high elevation had an effect on internal combustion engines. I found a dial on the carburetor that allowed it to be set leaner and that solved the problem. The next big event was one day on my way to work the rear end locked up at about 60 mph. A seal had gone and leaked the lube out. Not long after that was fixed the foot brake went to the floor and I sailed through a stoplight. (This was before the day of two chambered brake reservoirs.) A month or so later the transmission began making bad sounds and shifting hard. By then I was earning decent money so I traded it in on a new VW Beetle. Fortunately the dealer didn't test drive the Studebaker. Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-lyrebird-perfectly-imitates-laser-gun-sounds ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9034 - Release Date: 01/31/15 -- arche...@embarqmail.com arche...@embarqmail.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -CurtFixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] First Cars
Not to outdo you, but back in college some upper classmen were selling a perfect 1948 Cadillac convertible for $400. I didn't have the cash On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Mark E. Peneguy via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I wish I had kept that car A LOT longer! But, as a college student, and just out of college, the money wasn't there to take care of it, nor did I know nearly enough about how to take care of the car. I've often thought what might have been, had I been able to keep it, then I remember Hurricane Katrina and the 2-1/2 feet of water on my lot. It would have been underwater, since I would not have evacuated with that car - nor would I have been able to get it higher, since the known garages were either closed or full. Even had I gotten it into a garage, considering the lawlessness of the City of New Orleans after the storm, it likely would not have been around upon my return. I'm glad that didn't happen, even if it wasn't mine! Thanks, Curly, on the recommendations for my 126 suspension issue. I replaced the Bilsteins recently. It made no difference, although the old ones were over 10 years old. My mechanic will get the suggestion of new rear subframe bushings when I drop off the car today for a new resonator, which cracked last week and makes the car now sound like a truck, as well as ride like one! (As you might imagine, I am still not capable of taking care of the car, myself - no real mechanical skills, nor the room to perform the repairs.) Mark Mark E. Peneguy 1988 420SEL New Orleans peneguy...@cox.net On 2/1/2015 7:30 PM, mercedes-requ...@okiebenz.com wrote: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! some car! Too bad you didn't keep it! Bilstein shocks and new rear subframe bushings may help a lot. and Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: I bet you wish you would have kept that one a little longer Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Mark E. Peneguy via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I am a long-time lurker and rarely have anything to offer, when I even get the chance to read the list digests. The posts on first cars has been very interesting. When I was in college, in 1977, I bought my first car - a 1953 Mercedes 300S Cabriolet. I had no idea how rare the car was when I bought it, neither did the seller, though. My education began 6 days later. I just bought it because it looked cool, and a friend's father had one similar to it. I paid $2,500.00 for it. It was in OK condition, but for a lot of rust in what was left of the floor pans. The engine ran OK. It was loads of fun to drive, especially with the top down! I repainted the car and replaced the leather interior. In addition, I fixed the rusted out floor pans with fiberglass (what did I know, then?). When I bought the car, it had been painted British racing green and the leather, apparently original, had been painted grey. I changed it to, well, you'll see in the link below. Because I could not afford to maintain the car, and I needed something reliable for long-distance driving (which the car may have been, but I really didn't want to drive it 125 miles a day), I sold the car two years after I bought it for what I had in it: $10,000.00. I think a properly fully restored at that time was selling for $17,500.00. Mine was nowhere near restored, much less fully restored. It did look good, though. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching the replay of the Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction and saw a 1953 in the exact color combination go across the block. It sold for $643,500.00! Here's a link for the sale showing that car: http://www.timesunion.com/carsense/slideshow/Hottest- cars-from-Scottsdale-auction-101332/photo-7405937.php I have no idea if the car that was auctioned was the one I sold, since I don't know anything about the car after I sold it, except to whom it was sold. Back to lurking... Mark P.S. I'm also reading with interest about the 126 suspension. Mine rides like a truck! It's time to get back to the ride it had when I bought it in 1993. (O.K., now back to lurking!) Mark E. Peneguy 1988 420SEL, 271K New Orleans peneguy...@cox.net ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ All posts are the result of individual contributors
Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars
This is from the dealership. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: What? Where did you get it from? AFAIK MB says to use regular old gear oil. I used Mobil 1 in my '85 190D which is the only car I've ever done diff oil on. It made the noisy diff a little quieter. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars The hyploid oil refill in the rear diff of my 1985 300TD set me back $90 just for the fluid! On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: David wrote: By then I was earning decent money... What type of work in Denver did you do? What part of town? I started working for a small civil engg firm in Denver in '78 but pay never got good. We lived south of DU. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars
The hyploid oil refill in the rear diff of my 1985 300TD set me back $90 just for the fluid! On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: David wrote: By then I was earning decent money... What type of work in Denver did you do? What part of town? I started working for a small civil engg firm in Denver in '78 but pay never got good. We lived south of DU. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars
What? Where did you get it from? AFAIK MB says to use regular old gear oil. I used Mobil 1 in my '85 190D which is the only car I've ever done diff oil on. It made the noisy diff a little quieter. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars The hyploid oil refill in the rear diff of my 1985 300TD set me back $90 just for the fluid! On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: David wrote: By then I was earning decent money... What type of work in Denver did you do? What part of town? I started working for a small civil engg firm in Denver in '78 but pay never got good. We lived south of DU. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respond-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.shtml Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
Of all the cars I have had, my 124 300D 2.5 that I sold to OK Don, was the first car I sold that I wanted back. That was a great car! Great mileage, decent speed, all the 124 improvements that made it SO MUCH better than the 123's (in my opinion). I would have kept driving it, but it was just getting to small for me especially when I had clients or colleagues ride with me. -Original Message- From: Curly McLain [mailto:126die...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:24 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/4868028916.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] First Cars
I wish I had kept that car A LOT longer! But, as a college student, and just out of college, the money wasn't there to take care of it, nor did I know nearly enough about how to take care of the car. I've often thought what might have been, had I been able to keep it, then I remember Hurricane Katrina and the 2-1/2 feet of water on my lot. It would have been underwater, since I would not have evacuated with that car - nor would I have been able to get it higher, since the known garages were either closed or full. Even had I gotten it into a garage, considering the lawlessness of the City of New Orleans after the storm, it likely would not have been around upon my return. I'm glad that didn't happen, even if it wasn't mine! Thanks, Curly, on the recommendations for my 126 suspension issue. I replaced the Bilsteins recently. It made no difference, although the old ones were over 10 years old. My mechanic will get the suggestion of new rear subframe bushings when I drop off the car today for a new resonator, which cracked last week and makes the car now sound like a truck, as well as ride like one! (As you might imagine, I am still not capable of taking care of the car, myself - no real mechanical skills, nor the room to perform the repairs.) Mark Mark E. Peneguy 1988 420SEL New Orleans peneguy...@cox.net On 2/1/2015 7:30 PM, mercedes-requ...@okiebenz.com wrote: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! some car! Too bad you didn't keep it! Bilstein shocks and new rear subframe bushings may help a lot. and Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: I bet you wish you would have kept that one a little longer Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Mark E. Peneguy via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I am a long-time lurker and rarely have anything to offer, when I even get the chance to read the list digests. The posts on first cars has been very interesting. When I was in college, in 1977, I bought my first car - a 1953 Mercedes 300S Cabriolet. I had no idea how rare the car was when I bought it, neither did the seller, though. My education began 6 days later. I just bought it because it looked cool, and a friend's father had one similar to it. I paid $2,500.00 for it. It was in OK condition, but for a lot of rust in what was left of the floor pans. The engine ran OK. It was loads of fun to drive, especially with the top down! I repainted the car and replaced the leather interior. In addition, I fixed the rusted out floor pans with fiberglass (what did I know, then?). When I bought the car, it had been painted British racing green and the leather, apparently original, had been painted grey. I changed it to, well, you'll see in the link below. Because I could not afford to maintain the car, and I needed something reliable for long-distance driving (which the car may have been, but I really didn't want to drive it 125 miles a day), I sold the car two years after I bought it for what I had in it: $10,000.00. I think a properly fully restored at that time was selling for $17,500.00. Mine was nowhere near restored, much less fully restored. It did look good, though. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching the replay of the Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction and saw a 1953 in the exact color combination go across the block. It sold for $643,500.00! Here's a link for the sale showing that car: http://www.timesunion.com/carsense/slideshow/Hottest-cars-from-Scottsdale-auction-101332/photo-7405937.php I have no idea if the car that was auctioned was the one I sold, since I don't know anything about the car after I sold it, except to whom it was sold. Back to lurking... Mark P.S. I'm also reading with interest about the 126 suspension. Mine rides like a truck! It's time to get back to the ride it had when I bought it in 1993. (O.K., now back to lurking!) Mark E. Peneguy 1988 420SEL, 271K New Orleans peneguy...@cox.net ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. -- Subject: Digest Footer ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] First and subsequent cars
What year was your 280? My first mercedes was a 1973 280 with none of the complications you mentioned. Drove like a dream. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Marshall Field via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My first car was a '33 Chev coupe which I paid 35 bux for. I used it to deliver newspapers and go fishing in the summer. After my first sub-zero Minnesota winter of driving it, my Grandfather sold me his '36 Ford two door which had a marvelous gas fired heater which gave you roaring heat within a minute of start up. It was a grand combination which I used for the rest of my paper boy career. When I came back from VN, I bought two cars at the same time. The first was a '66 Shelby GT350 which I stupidly sold with much regret 5 years later.I was living in South NJ at the time and would slink down to the deserted road to Atlantic City late at night to open it up full bore and keep the plugs from fouling. The second car I bought was a '67 Ford Bronco with 289 and limited slip front and rear. I drove that car for the next 44 years and 623,000 miles all over Canada, Mexico and the Southwest US. I was doing a lot of off road driving in those days and never once did the Bronco strand me or fail to get me home. I only did one engine rebuild, and that was close to 500,000 miles. My first MB was a 114 series 280 sedan. IT was a delight to drive but in those days, the MB engineers had to use hot water in an attempt to control emissions. Pipes and hoses ran everywhere under the hood and the car was a monster to keep running because of it. Of late, I have been strictly diesel. I have two 123 diesel sedans, a '77 and a California version '85, and a '81 300TD wagon I live in a brutal desert climate. If you break down, you can die in a half day from the heat and dehydration.So I keep the cars in tip top shade and do not skimp on tires, oil, under hood rubber or scheduled maintenance. My orientation is Aviation, so I maintain the cars as if they were aircraft and follow the MB recommendations strictly by the book. Marshall Field Phoenix, AZ -- ...Bring back Family Sunday dinner together ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5
The 2.5 was a 5 Cylinder, yes it was turbo. -Original Message- From: Fred Moir [mailto:fredh.s...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 10:35 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 Yup! It's a turbo and a very rare 6cyl. 2.5 liter turbocharged engine engine.It must be an AMG extra power option. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 08:44:05 -0500 To: 126die...@gmail.com; mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sweet deal. Is that a turbo? On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/4868028916.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
Anywhere north of the Mason Dixon, there is always justification in the household budget for mechanized snow removal! I keep thinking I’m going to trade in my ’69 Ariens for a new model, but it just keeps going. The only bad part about it is fiddling with the chains. 24” with a Tecumseh engine. On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -Curt Fixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com http://www.okiebenz.com/ To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com http://www.okiebenz.com/ To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
Mine is 6 hp 24 it will throw slush, but works better in snow. I thought this snow might end up being more that last weeks storm of the century It was running from the Mo River to PA. You need a more powerful snowblower. I think mine was made by mistake, an 8hp engine on a 27 cut. Usually mine would have a 5hp. Its got so much oopmph it'll throw water. -Curt From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] Totally and Completely OT: Warbirds!
http://player.vimeo.com/video/93587997 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
Understood. It wasn't my intent to put you in a position of discussing protected speech. Thanks, Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respond-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.shtml Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Totally and Completely OT: Warbirds!
One of the restored B-17s was in the area last week giving (selling) rides. I think they were in Brookville. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Jon Agne via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: http://player.vimeo.com/video/93587997 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Totally and Completely OT: Warbirds!
Very cool! Thanks. There is a BT-13 across the runway from me, and an A-26 buzzed our runway a couple of years ago . . . On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Jon Agne via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: http://player.vimeo.com/video/93587997 -- OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
[MBZ] high school and college cars
Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
I have a system at home that is completely free of fossil fuels and has a rating of 3 shovel-power. It comprises three different types of manual snow shovels, with one horse to operate each one of them independently. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Jon Agne via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Anywhere north of the Mason Dixon, there is always justification in the household budget for mechanized snow removal! I keep thinking I’m going to trade in my ’69 Ariens for a new model, but it just keeps going. The only bad part about it is fiddling with the chains. 24” with a Tecumseh engine. On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -Curt Fixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto: mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com http://www.okiebenz.com/ To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com http://www.okiebenz.com/ To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
WOW! It was an OK car if you never drove it over 50mph . . . A friend in H.S. had one, we re-built the engine three times in two years to keep it on the street. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc -- OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
dauphines are cool. I almost bought one for my first car (it was $35) but it had the dreaded automatic stick shift transmission and fortunately i studied it and read about it and didn't buy it. The 4cv was the post wwII renault made from 1947 to 1961 i guess they are common in france …. who knows now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4CV i would sell mine xx r On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
I'd keep it as long as possible, the old ones are way more rugged than the new stuff although the newer stuff has better ergonomics. Even a repower is still cheaper than a new one too. I need to pull mine apart in the spring and figure out why the reverse doesn't work good. Once I get mine figured out I'll do the same job for the neighbor. He says he's going to take his for a $100 service, I told him I'd do the service for that money. Drain his gas out, change the plug, shoot some grease on the pivots and change the oil, easy money... -Curt From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? Anywhere north of the Mason Dixon, there is always justification in the household budget for mechanized snow removal! I keep thinking I’m going to trade in my ’69 Ariens for a new model, but it just keeps going. The only bad part about it is fiddling with the chains. 24” with a Tecumseh engine. On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -CurtFixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
I'd keep it as long as possible, the old ones are way more rugged than the = new stuff although the newer stuff has better ergonomics. Even a repower is= still cheaper than a new one too. I need to pull mine apart in the spring and figure out why the reverse does= n't work good. Once I get mine figured out I'll do the same job for the nei= ghbor. He says he's going to take his for a $100 service, I told him I'd do= the service for that money. Drain his gas out, change the plug, shoot some= grease on the pivots and change the oil, easy money... -Curt From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? Anywhere north of the Mason Dixon, there is always justification in the household budget for mechanized snow removal! I keep thinking I’m going to trade in my ’69 Ariens for a new model, but it just keeps going. The only bad part about it is fiddling with the chains. 24” with a Tecumseh engine. On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -CurtFixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each
[MBZ] Kaput komputer
Mein komputer ist kaput. Using SWMBO's iPad for a while so as not to miss out or have okiebenz withdrawal shakes. Meanwhile, trying to set up neu komputer. Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
My sister had a Dauphine. It was one of the program cars that GM execs got when my Dad was working for GM in the late 60s. I was always amazed by the pushbutton transmission it had. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
Millions of dollars... Don will be getting a new Jag AND a new BMW... On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respond-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.shtml -- - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
He shoul buy every one on this list a new jalopy. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Millions of dollars... Don will be getting a new Jag AND a new BMW... On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respond-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.shtml -- - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
I second the motion, and call for a vote. All in favor? On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: He shoul buy every one on this list a new jalopy. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Millions of dollars... Don will be getting a new Jag AND a new BMW... On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respond-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.shtml ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars
What brand is it? I think you were robbed. IIRC it doesn't even take 2 full liters. $45/l is absurd. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars This is from the dealership. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: What? Where did you get it from? AFAIK MB says to use regular old gear oil. I used Mobil 1 in my '85 190D which is the only car I've ever done diff oil on. It made the noisy diff a little quieter. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - First Cars The hyploid oil refill in the rear diff of my 1985 300TD set me back $90 just for the fluid! On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: David wrote: By then I was earning decent money... What type of work in Denver did you do? What part of town? I started working for a small civil engg firm in Denver in '78 but pay never got good. We lived south of DU. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] I must be pregnant
The guy I worked for when I was in tech school had 7-8 Jags at any given time, although no more than one or two were ever working simultaneously. He had: 2- Mark IVs 1-XK140 1-XKE 2-XJ6s 1-XJ12 The XK140 barely ran, but when it did.the XKE was a badass car as well, even though it had the 3.8 liter six, and not the 4.2 or V12. I got to drive the cars home if I wanted, as most of my hours were spent keeping them running. The XJ12 was the most amazing one, as you would be driving down a local road thinking you were doing 35 and would look down at the speedo and realize it was more like 60. The sense of speed was almost nonexistent in that car. Too bad it was a carbureted model. Six side draft Solexs' that had to be balanced about every 500-750 miles or the gas mileage went from maybe 10 mpg well into the single digits. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I am not usually a Leadfoot, but that Jag was so fast and so fun to drive, that I did tend to drive it a little faster than normal. The car was just ready to leap (pun intended). The first time I drove it, the previous owner showed me how to take off from a stop without squealing the tires. It really took a concerted effort to take off slowly. But, it was scary fast when I floored at it any speed over 5 mph. I have heard people say a car will throw you back in your seat and I always thought that was an exaggeration. But, this car really would. And with all that torque, you really had to fight the wheel because the torque twisted the car. Don ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
Good news all around! Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Craig via Mercedes Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 4:21 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)! After a year of problems with her eyes, Shirley can finally read! She got new lenses after her cataract surgeries last summer, but with the vitrectomies in her left eye and the capsulotomy in her right eye, her eyes changed enough to make those lenses useless for reading. At her final visit at Eye Associates in Santa Fe with the retinologist on 13 January, we asked about her reading problems. The technician had done a refraction at the beginning of her appointment; the doctor said that the new prescription just generated would solve her reading problems. Shirley then went to Eye Associates Optical in Los Alamos (affiliated with the medical section of Eye Associates) with the new prescription. We were expecting to pay for new lenses, but when the lady there looked at her record, she said that since it was so soon after she got her previous lenses, they would cover the cost of the new lenses! Praise the Lord! I was somewhat apprehensive that the new lenses would really solve the problem, but when Shirley got the lenses, she said she could read. She has packed away the large magnifying glass she had been using and is reading well. She may have to have a capsulotomy on her left eye in the future, but she is functioning well now. In other news :-), WE HAVE A CONTRACT ON OUR HOUSE!!! Another Praise the Lord! The contract is with a young man named Peter and his wife Sarah, who are currently residing in Houston, Texas. Peter grew up in Albuquerque and Sarah grew up here in Los Alamos. Sarah had seen our home on zillow.com and had asked her parents, who live not too far from us here on Barranca Mesa, to come and look at the house. They came on 24 January and were impressed by the house. After they reported back to her, I received an email from and called Peter and later received a call from Sarah. In our conversation, Peter said he had received his official offer from the Lab here and was planning on coming out for a house-hunting trip on 14 February. After talking with his new supervisor at the Lab, Peter found they wanted him to start work on 06 April! He moved up his trip to this past weekend, with us showing the house to him and his mother-in-law on Saturday, 31 January. Late yesterday afternoon he called us and said he wanted to come over to talk about an offer. After he made a reasonable offer, we hashed out the details and agreed to meet at Los Alamos National Bank (LANB) at 0900 this morning. One detail that concerned me is that the house will have to close on 01 April, with them getting posession then, 8-1/2 weeks from now. After praying about our meeting, I met Peter in the lobby of LANB. We wondered whether we should go to the title company in the lobby, or to the bank's loan officers on the second floor. We decided to go to the title company, which proved to be the correct choice. The lady with whom we spoke at the title company, Patti, was, as Peter said, Awesome! We went into the office and I said, This young man wants to buy my house. Peter said that we were wondering whether we should see them or the loan officer first. Patti said we had come to the correct place and that they did this every day. She said we didn't need a realtor and would be happy to guide us through the process. She then took us into their conference room where we discussed the transaction. She then got copies of a contract form for the three of us and went through each item, telling us what it meant and suggesting how we should handle it. Peter and I then went about filling out the contract form, discussing how we would handle closing costs, inspections, and other things. After filling it out, the president of the title company reviewed it and said things were OK. We then went across the lobby to the bank where Peter transferred the earnest money to the title company's escrow account. After a brief trip back to the title company to find telephone numbers for inspectors, we shook hands and departed. So, praise the Lord, we are progressing on the sale of the house! Things to pray about now include, - Getting a high-enough appraisal for Peter to be able to get the loan from LANB, - Timely processing and funding of the loan, - Timely inspections and survey, - Wisdom, health, strength, and help for Shirley and me to get all things done we need to to be able to move out on 01 April and head for Indiana. (I'm in the middle of refurbishing our utility trailer and our vehicles need some work -- not the least of which is cleaning the mice which recently took up residence and their smelly, potentially disease-laden detritus out of the heater of our Big Red Van. It seems a little
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
I MEANT to say summer of '53. Wilton Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Alice Strickland alice.strickl...@gmail.com wrote: My first car summer was a 31 Model A Ford 5-window coupe that had just been semi-restored; looked great and was in reasonably good condition; usually drove it at redline - 55 to 60 mph. It literally hummed; worst thing about it was getting it stopped. Girl friend (SWMBO) loved it, and I'm still in trouble for selling it and buying a ragged '40 Ford. Wilton Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My first car (that I was totally responsible for i.e. license, insurance, all maintenance and any other expenses) was a '63 beetle that my olderbrother gave up on. He had rebuilt the motor using over-sized pistons, the engine made a ticking noise when done, so he bought a '68 squareback. I Ifound a used motor for the beetle and drove it off to college, University of Wisconsin - adjusting the valves every 2000 miles laying on cold wet pavement in the street outside my apartment was miserable. The car was black with the big canvass sunroof. I could stand while driving, straddling the shift lever between my legs with my upper body sticking out of the sunroof, steering with my left hand and working the accelerator pedal with my left foot. In my sophomore year, I rented an apartment which had a locked storage area in the basement, and using the How to Keep your Volkswagen ALIVE book, I took the role of the Complete Idiot and proceeded to tear apart the ticking engine. I could find nothing wrong, got a reference for a good VW mechanic in the area, put all the pieces in boxes and took them to his shop. He called me a couple days later and said Fixed, that will be $15 please. The crank gear that drove the distributor was damaged, and that was making the ticking noise. He pressed off the old and installed a used gear. I put it all back together, installed that engine and motored happily off. However, lack of passenger heat and the frequency of the valve adjustments laying in snow or on wet cold pavement was loosing all appeal, so I sold that car for $300. The replacement was a '67 Plymouth VIP, with a Commando V. 383 cubic inches, but mine had the smaller carb and smaller intake valve openings. It also burned almost as much oil as gasoline. It really could roll coal, especially on the freeway. Moving up from the VW to the VIP, I thought the car had tremendous power. Drove it for a year or two, the engine got weaker and weaker and finally was only running on 5 or 6 of the 8 cylinders. I sold it for scrap for $75, but before I sold it I removed the hood ornament and some other MOPAR bits that one of the many mechanics who worked on the car admired, and sold those bits for another $75. The brake lights didn't work when I got the car, so I ran new wire to the rear window and installed trailer lights there as brake lights. I was amazed I was never pulled over and questioned about that. My older brother had by then destroyed the squareback, and replaced it with a '73 super beetle, for which he paid the princely sum of $100 circa 1990. He was in graduate school then, didn't really need a car but did need a bicycle. I had a nice Schwinn ten speed that I bought for $100, so I traded him. The Hundred Dollar Car as it was known was terribly rusty and again had the miserable air-cooled VW passenger heat (or lack thereof). I suffered through another winter in Wisconsin. The brakes were weak and the tires needed replacing, and I think it also needed new tie rod ends. I took it to our family mechanic back in northern WI for the work. He put the car up on his lift, took one look at the rust, gently put the car back down and told me he could see no value in doing anything to the car and advised that it was too unsafe to drive, so that one also went to the junkyard. By the way, said junkyard in northern WI, Floyds Auto Salvage was were all Dillon vehicles which were scrapped went back then. We had a very good relationship with Floyd and his sons. They had dedicated one row just for Dillon vehicles, making it easier for us to pay our respects when we went buy to get parts for the current fleet. After that I went through another hand-me-down family car, then decided to be car-less my senior year. When I graduated I bought a used '92 Honda Accord EX coupe. That was a decent car, drove it for about four years. I'd bought it for $11k with less than 50k miles, sold it four years later with over 100k for $6400. The only car I wish I had kept was that VIP. I had a lead on a 440 V8 from a police car, and really wanted to swap that in, but just didn't have the time and money while in college. Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Fury Here's a picture of a similar car. Mine was red with
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:02:39 -0500 Max Dillon dillonm...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic! Thanks for sharing! You are welcome. Thank you for your enthusiastic response! craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] OT: Update XXXIX: SHE CAN READ (and other information)!
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:04:32 -0800 Greg Fiorentino gf...@dslnorthwest.net wrote: Good news all around! Yes, indeed. We are thankful. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
Don't say such things. If I had some space I'd love to have a 2CV or 4CV. I have in mind adding another bay onto my garage and expanding the little add-on on the back of the garage to full size which would allow me to move the snowmobiles under cover, have the lawnmower and plow over there and get a car into the bay for repairs and such. The stock I have from my employer would nearly cover such a project right now but we also need a roof on the house and a furnace which I guess get precedence. Someday though... -Curt From: Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars dauphines are cool. I almost bought one for my first car (it was $35) but it had the dreaded automatic stick shift transmission and fortunately i studied it and read about it and didn't buy it. The 4cv was the post wwII renault made from 1947 to 1961 i guess they are common in france …. who knows now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4CV i would sell mine xx r On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
Like the old Dodge Coronet and Edsel? Those were totally awesome! I wonder why they haven't made a comeback. It could be a retro facade behind a digital transmission interface. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My sister had a Dauphine. It was one of the program cars that GM execs got when my Dad was working for GM in the late 60s. I was always amazed by the pushbutton transmission it had. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
I will keep my snow shovels too. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I'd keep it as long as possible, the old ones are way more rugged than the = new stuff although the newer stuff has better ergonomics. Even a repower is= still cheaper than a new one too. I need to pull mine apart in the spring and figure out why the reverse does= n't work good. Once I get mine figured out I'll do the same job for the nei= ghbor. He says he's going to take his for a $100 service, I told him I'd do= the service for that money. Drain his gas out, change the plug, shoot some= grease on the pivots and change the oil, easy money... -Curt From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com Cc: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? Anywhere north of the Mason Dixon, there is always justification in the household budget for mechanized snow removal! I keep thinking I’m going to trade in my ’69 Ariens for a new model, but it just keeps going. The only bad part about it is fiddling with the chains. 24” with a Tecumseh engine. On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -CurtFixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors
Re: [MBZ] high school and college cars
First GM program car, 1964-5 or thereabouts: Vauxhall wagon. Total POS. Second GM program car, late 1960s: Opel Kadette. Another POS, but that was partly because my Mom thrashed cars. It actually held up pretty well, considering the abuse it took. Third program car, 1970-1: Renault Dauphine. Was my older sister's first car. What an indoctrination to motoring, eh? All this time Dad was driving a brand new GM product of some sort. Pontiac Tempest, first year Camaro, etc. He got a new car every six months. My long suffering Mom got the GM dreck. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: Like the old Dodge Coronet and Edsel? Those were totally awesome! I wonder why they haven't made a comeback. It could be a retro facade behind a digital transmission interface. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: My sister had a Dauphine. It was one of the program cars that GM execs got when my Dad was working for GM in the late 60s. I was always amazed by the pushbutton transmission it had. Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Renault Dauphine - now there's a blast from the past. Parts are still available: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_armrs=1_dmd=1_mPrRngCbx=1_ipg=50LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0_from=R14%7CR40_sacat=0_nkw=renault+dauphineLH_PrefLoc=3_sop=3rt=nc On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Folks I have come onto many interesting cars. When i was about 15 or 16 i bought a Renault 4CV (looks like a morris minor with suicide doors in the front) that was sitting behind a house in Aiken SC. I got the title and the car showed only about 20,000 miles. I paid $20. I STILL have the car in a garage here in Athens, GA. We managed to lose the engine along the way, but i do have a dauphene engine that fits it. Another project. The car is complete less engine. In about 1976 i bought a VW bug …. an old one, not a split window, but i think a 54 or 55. It ran and we drove it around a little and then parked it in a garage. It had a replacement engine that was a 36 hp rather than the original 20 or whatever it was. I kept it till about 1990 and sold it for $1000 which was good money in 1990. thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting
No worries, I would be thrilled to talk about this issue and many others. Unfortunately, we have not filed suit on this case yet. I can tell you a few interesting things that are a matter of public record: According to the FBI, between 2007 and 2011 there was an average of 396 shootings by police officers resulting in death in the entire United States. According to the FBI, there were 698,460 police officers in the United States in 2011. Based on the FBI numbers there was 1 shooting death for every 1763.78 officers in the United States. Between November 2010 and July 10, 2012, WPD Officers shot at least 16 different people, killing seven (7) individuals, and wounding at least nine (9) others. In 2012 alone, Wichita Police Department officers shot and killed 5 people and wounded 9 others. According to the FBI, Wichita had 646 officers in 2011 and a population of 386,796 people. Wichita has 1 police officer for every 598.75 people. Wichita's officer to shooting death ratio is 1 death for every 129 officers, which is 13. times greater than the national average. In comparison to Wichita, Detroit, Michigan has 2,760 police officers and a population of 713,239 people. Detroit has 1 police officer for every 258.41 people. Detroit had 411 total homicides in 2012, 377 in 2011, and 327 in 2010, which is approximately 14 times greater than the average rate in Wichita. Despite having nearly twice the population of Wichita, and more than three times the number of police officers, Detroit only had 3 officer-involved shooting deaths in 2012. Detroit has 1 shooting death to every 920 police officers, which is 9 times LESS than the ratio for Wichita. Chicago has a population of 2,703,713 in 2011 and 12,092 officers for an officer to citizen ratio of 223.59 to 1. Chicago had 8 officer shooting deaths in 2012. The ratio of shooting deaths to police officers in Chicago is one death for every 1511 police officers. Even though Chicago has approximately eight times as many people as Wichita, the ratio of shooting death to police officers in Wichita (1/129) is nearly twelve times greater than the ratio in Chicago (1/1511). -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 12:24 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Understood. It wasn't my intent to put you in a position of discussing protected speech. Thanks, Dan Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I cannot comment on this. We are in the midst of a fight over this currently. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 6:18 AM To: Mercedes List Subject: [MBZ] Wichita Shooting Donald, Any comments on this? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150119/06150629744/wichita-police-respond-to-request-shooting-incident-details-with-handful-fully-redacted-pages.shtml Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready?
Take your passport just in case. Rain sleet here on top of 4 of fresh wet snow. On Feb 2, 2015 11:47 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Angie and I went to the store a little while ago. When I wrote the message below I hadn't been outside or looked at the thermometer. Its 15F and the snow is fluffy powder. We've got around 8 inches and its still coming down good. Volume is good for snowmobiling but it'd be better if it was a better kind of snow. I'm not going to complain though, any snow is better than none... -CurtFixin to make another pirate run, down the street 50', take a right, down that street 200 yards take a left, 50 yards and then a high speed run down a long driveway to a furniture factory, behind the factory is an old railroad bed and access to trails theoretically to Canada... From: Jon Agne jonag...@gwi.net To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? No WET snow. I hate shoveling margaritas! On Feb 2, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I did 15 miles Saturday morning, a pirate run through the backwoods without my registration stickers. Then Angie joined me, we put the stickers on and hit the big trails where we rode another 20 miles. The trails were nice and smooth although the soft powder doesn't hold up all that well and its easy to spin the track and dig in. Hopefully this next batch of snow will be a little wetter. I haven't been out yet but we've got probably 6 on the ground now with predictions up to 18. Not as much wind as the last storm but we're almost certainly going to get more snow than we did last time. The riding should be great! -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:12 PM Subject: [MBZ] Curt, Got the Schneemobiles ready? 'Nother storm sending snow your way. We got a foot of heavy wet stuff so far. A real heart attack snow. Are they predicting much for you? They are not calling this one this week's storm of the century, but it looks like it could be as big or bigger than last week's. MB Content: Went up to the grocery to get chicken broth for SWMBO, who is sick, in the 126. Could not get up the small hill when I left. Backed down and went out the other gate with less incline. Lousy no name tars on it. But the car is not worth a set of Blizzaks. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
