Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
An ill woodwind that nobody blows good.  ;-)

-MMM-

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 It lost the rear swing axels?


 Close!  It [Buffet clarinet] gained a polycylindrical bore in 1955.

 -- Jim



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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
This proves that poos is a moron and does not know what he is talking about. 
Those were the best vehicle years. The under hood 450 cat is the best thing 
ever. I am working on a plan to retrofit that into older and newer cars. 

Sent from my iPhone

 On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 I wrenched heavily at this time and saw the worst of the pollution 
 controlled, poorly built American iron. It was gawdawful stuff and you could 
 tell the engineers were flying by the seats of their pants.
 
 1974-5 were probably the worst years, in my opinion. Just horrible in so many 
 ways.
 
 Dan
 
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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the 
 malaise era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly awful 
 build quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the east.Also 
 considering what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans had kept 
 their build quality high the asian makers would have never gotten a 
 foothold.My in-laws have a Ford Fusion that is an excellent car, probably 
 the best made vehicle they've ever had and at least as good as any Toyota 
 but the resale value pales when next to a Camry.
 -Curt
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 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?
 
 It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too.  1968 cars had 
 rudimentary smog crap hung on em.  By 1974, merkun iron was fully 
 smothered and were total crap.
 
 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I'm talking about domestic cars, not MBs. But since you brought it up

As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of them 
here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine compartment from 
those cats.

Dan

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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 This proves that poos is a moron and does not know what he is talking about. 
 Those were the best vehicle years. The under hood 450 cat is the best thing 
 ever. I am working on a plan to retrofit that into older and newer cars. 
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 I wrenched heavily at this time and saw the worst of the pollution 
 controlled, poorly built American iron. It was gawdawful stuff and you could 
 tell the engineers were flying by the seats of their pants.
 
 1974-5 were probably the worst years, in my opinion. Just horrible in so 
 many ways.
 
 Dan
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the 
 malaise era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly 
 awful build quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the 
 east.Also considering what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans 
 had kept their build quality high the asian makers would have never gotten 
 a foothold.My in-laws have a Ford Fusion that is an excellent car, probably 
 the best made vehicle they've ever had and at least as good as any Toyota 
 but the resale value pales when next to a Camry.
 -Curt
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 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?
 
 It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too.  1968 cars had 
 rudimentary smog crap hung on em.  By 1974, merkun iron was fully 
 smothered and were total crap.
 
 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the malaise 
era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly awful build 
quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the east.Also considering 
what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans had kept their build 
quality high the asian makers would have never gotten a foothold.My in-laws 
have a Ford Fusion that is an excellent car, probably the best made vehicle 
they've ever had and at least as good as any Toyota but the resale value pales 
when next to a Camry.
-Curt
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It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too.  1968 cars had 
rudimentary smog crap hung on em.  By 1974, merkun iron was fully 
smothered and were total crap.



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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I wrenched heavily at this time and saw the worst of the pollution controlled, 
poorly built American iron. It was gawdawful stuff and you could tell the 
engineers were flying by the seats of their pants.

1974-5 were probably the worst years, in my opinion. Just horrible in so many 
ways.

Dan

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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the malaise 
 era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly awful build 
 quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the east.Also 
 considering what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans had kept 
 their build quality high the asian makers would have never gotten a 
 foothold.My in-laws have a Ford Fusion that is an excellent car, probably the 
 best made vehicle they've ever had and at least as good as any Toyota but the 
 resale value pales when next to a Camry.
 -Curt
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 To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 Cc: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com 
 Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:37 AM
 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?
 
 It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too.  1968 cars had 
 rudimentary smog crap hung on em.  By 1974, merkun iron was fully 
 smothered and were total crap.
 
 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too.  1968 cars had 
rudimentary smog crap hung on em.  By 1974, merkun iron was fully 
smothered and were total crap.


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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
The most amazing car I ever owned was a 1950 DeSoto with the semi-automatic
transmission.  It had a clutch but was impossible to stall when stopping
using brake only (break, if you prefer).  I bought TWO cars in sequential
years in Boston and Minneapolis, for a grand total of  $100 and sold them
for a grand total of $25 ($15, $10) one year later.  The demise of this
marque should not be mourned.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:

 This proves that poos is a moron and does not know what he is talking
 about. Those were the best vehicle years. The under hood 450 cat is the
 best thing ever. I am working on a plan to retrofit that into older and
 newer cars.

 Sent from my iPhone

  On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
  I wrenched heavily at this time and saw the worst of the pollution
 controlled, poorly built American iron. It was gawdawful stuff and you
 could tell the engineers were flying by the seats of their pants.
 
  1974-5 were probably the worst years, in my opinion. Just horrible in so
 many ways.
 
  Dan
 
  Sent from my iPad
 
  On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
  I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the
 malaise era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly
 awful build quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the
 east.Also considering what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans
 had kept their build quality high the asian makers would have never gotten
 a foothold.My in-laws have a Ford Fusion that is an excellent car, probably
 the best made vehicle they've ever had and at least as good as any Toyota
 but the resale value pales when next to a Camry.
  -Curt
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  To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
  Cc: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com
  Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 8:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?
 
  It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too.  1968 cars had
  rudimentary smog crap hung on em.  By 1974, merkun iron was fully
  smothered and were total crap.
 
 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/20/433010969/sales-of-convertibles-are-decelerating-blame-the-fuel-economy

Dan

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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 Interesting, I have not heard that in the auto biz
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 Correct. And why, I don't know, but there are tons of 75s around here. They 
 used to be cheap as wine, but now people seem to think they're valuable.
 
 Interesting story on All Things Considered yesterday about how convertibles 
 are going away, and how most manufacturers are getting out of making them. 
 Most of it has to do with efforts to meet the CAFE standards in a few years.
 
 Dan
 
 
 
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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:17 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 The cats were under the hood in only the '75 and '76 models -
 
 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of
 them here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine
 compartment from those cats.
 
 Dan
 
 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
The cats were under the hood in only the '75 and '76 models -

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:

 As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of
 them here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine
 compartment from those cats.

 Dan




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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Correct. And why, I don't know, but there are tons of 75s around here. They 
used to be cheap as wine, but now people seem to think they're valuable.

Interesting story on All Things Considered yesterday about how convertibles are 
going away, and how most manufacturers are getting out of making them. Most of 
it has to do with efforts to meet the CAFE standards in a few years.

Dan



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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:17 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 The cats were under the hood in only the '75 and '76 models -
 
 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of
 them here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine
 compartment from those cats.
 
 Dan
 
 
 
 
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-21 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Interesting, I have not heard that in the auto biz

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 On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 Correct. And why, I don't know, but there are tons of 75s around here. They 
 used to be cheap as wine, but now people seem to think they're valuable.
 
 Interesting story on All Things Considered yesterday about how convertibles 
 are going away, and how most manufacturers are getting out of making them. 
 Most of it has to do with efforts to meet the CAFE standards in a few years.
 
 Dan
 
 
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:17 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com 
 wrote:
 
 The cats were under the hood in only the '75 and '76 models -
 
 On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
 mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
 
 As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of
 them here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine
 compartment from those cats.
 
 Dan
 
 
 
 -- 
 OK Don
 
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 our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain
 
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 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!
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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-20 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes

It lost the rear swing axels?


Close!  It [Buffet clarinet] gained a polycylindrical bore in 1955.

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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-20 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
1968 saw the introduction of the new sedans -- ball joints and  
double joint rear axles instead of the 1952 king pin front end and  
swing axles in the back (and they DO jack, just like a Corvair, but  
they don't flip the car over.


Included were anti-dive front end geometry and greatly reduce front  
pivot axis offset.


Greatly improved handling -- I have had both styles and greatly prefer  
the new one.  Only real difficulty is that it's possible to force  
the outside front tire off the rim in extreme cornering, a habit cured  
by a lighter rear anti-sway bar the rear in the W123 and W116 chassis.


1968 was also the introduction year for electronic fuel injection, a  
vast improvement over the mechanical and carbs.


Peter

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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-20 Thread Jaime Kopchinski via Mercedes
Ah, it all changed in 1968, especially for the W108/9.  The coarse MB tex,
the new ugly soft knobs, the heater levers that fell apart, the harsh strip
of MB Tex across the dash, things were painted sliver instead of chrome,
the start of some emissions controls, the torque converter.  The list goes
on and on.

Give me a 1967 250S, 250SE, or 300SEL over any later car any day.  I've
owned both, several of each.

Jaime
'67 300SEL, among others.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes 
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 On 20/08/2015 9:54 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:

 What does too old in a clarinet mean?


 Whatever she wants it to mean?  Played out (they don't last
 forever, hot breath and saliva attack the wood).  Old ergonomics.
 Not impressive enough to her friends.  The list goes on...

 In this case, 1955 is the watershed year for the brand, similar
 to 1968 for Mercedes.  Both of my finds are before this date.

 -- Jim


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Re: [MBZ] Why is 1968 a watershed year for Mercedes?

2015-08-20 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
It lost the rear swing axels?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes 
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:

 On 20/08/2015 9:54 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:

 What does too old in a clarinet mean?


 Whatever she wants it to mean?  Played out (they don't last
 forever, hot breath and saliva attack the wood).  Old ergonomics.
 Not impressive enough to her friends.  The list goes on...

 In this case, 1955 is the watershed year for the brand, similar
 to 1968 for Mercedes.  Both of my finds are before this date.

 -- Jim


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