Trained German saboteurs landed from a sub whose mission went awry;
American draft dodgers of German ancestry; captured German soldiers
(North Africa?) who had walked off from farms where they had been placed
as laborers (many prisoners on farms throughout the country); etc.
To a ten year old
Their English was so good they could pass for natives? That fact alone
seems quite significant to me. Spies?
You should call that PBS show, History Detectives, maybe they will make a
show about it.
Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
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Very interesting story. So how big was this farm you lived on?
What happened to the farm? Is it now a housing addition or
shopping center? I bet out there somewhere your visitors have
told their family the story also, maybe one day they will see this
online somewhere and connect the dots.
That is a good idea
On 7/21/2014 3:15 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Their English was so good they could pass for natives? That fact alone
seems quite significant to me. Spies?
You should call that PBS show, History Detectives, maybe they will make a
show about it.
Max Dillon,
Only 50 acres, or so. On Google Earth now, it looks like most of it is
covered in timber/trees. We were there as tenant farmers (share croppers)
for only one year. Daddy retired (well, quit, anyway) from farming at the
end of '45; he was 67 years old by then and most of his work force (the
I bought:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CHJ3UU4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8psc=1
and used the instructions:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+4S+Display+Assembly+Replacement/7277
and it worked out no problem. The hardest part was getting the cables all in
correctly which
Found the exhaust pipe had split on my '84 190D again, this is the pipe from
the exhaust manifold to the first muffler. I've repaired it twice already, this
time the break was in a new spot.
Somebody suggested I weld a piece of new exhaust pipe over the break and thats
what I did. It made the
At this point its a game to see how long I can keep it going...
Curt
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Sounds like it is about time to just replace the exhaust
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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Found the exhaust pipe had split on my '84 190D again, this is the pipe from
the exhaust manifold to the first muffler. I've
Hahahahahaha
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
At this point its a game to see how long I can keep it going...
Curt
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A great example of Yankee frugality.
On Jul 21, 2014 1:07 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Hahahahahaha
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
At this point its a game to see how long I can keep it
Its good welding practice too, a light touch is required.
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'Just checked History Detectives site - Not accepting submissions right
now.
Wilton
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about a fan clutch for a 190D, please do speak now on how i might contact
you
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Y'all old retired guys ought to make this a project to figure it out.
Check with the military, who probably ran the POW camps and farm
programs, see if there are any records of who was in the area, who
absconded, etc. and you could probably track down their identities and
what if anything
Trent said he called him after you wouldn't answer the phone, got his CC
number and everything
--R
On 7/21/14 2:08 PM, Gary Hurst via Mercedes wrote:
about a fan clutch for a 190D, please do speak now on how i might contact
you
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that's why he's the crowd favorite and i can't sell this bunch even below
cost
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Trent said he called him after you wouldn't answer the phone, got his CC
number and everything
--R
On 7/21/14 2:08 PM,
I welded up a lot of VW exhaust systems back when I worked at the foreign
car shop (working through school) for customers who wouldn't pay the $100
or so for a new exhaust system. Some of them were probably 30% welding rod
by the time I finished. Welding (gas) rusted exhaust pipes/mufflers is a
OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
I welded up a lot of VW exhaust systems back when I worked at the foreign
car shop (working through school) for customers who wouldn't pay the $100
or so for a new exhaust system. Some of them were probably 30% welding rod
by the time I finished. Welding (gas) rusted
My father-in-law has always been reluctant to talk about his wartime service.
This was due to the fact that he was a POW camp guard, and in his mind not a
worthy contribution to the war effort.
He's never really opened up about it at length, but we know that he guarded
German prisoners at Camp
I certainly hope that your FIL has been reassured by now that any
contribution to the war effort was very worthy and necessary. I commend him
for being able to do it - not a fun job and potentially very dangerous. We
were all in it together. Even our (the children's) efforts to gather scrap
Why not just straight pipe the front?
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 13:06, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
At this point its a game to see how long I can keep it going...
Curt
Finally heard back from the owner. Here's what he tells me:
He got the car from the original owner. It had been parked for a couple of
years after being run out of fuel. Wouldn't start or run when he got it.
He replaced the fuel pump and filter and put fresh fuel in the tank. Fuel pump
Maybe the hose is all buggered and is collapsing when fuel is pumped
through it (here I am assuming the pump is sucking it from the tank) or
has crap in it from sitting so long. The filter aspect would also be a
good place to start. How hard would it be to get a mity-vac on a fuel
line and
On 21/07/2014 5:02 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
Maybe the hose is all buggered and is collapsing when fuel is pumped
through it (here I am assuming the pump is sucking it from the tank)
or has crap in it from sitting so long. The filter aspect would also
be a good place to start. How
One other thought -- a jug of gas with a hose in it, pump some fuel from
there? Here again I am assuming the fuel pump sucks the gas and is
somewhere near the engine.
Take your fire extinguisher.
-R
On 7/21/14 6:02 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
Maybe the hose is all buggered and is
He's asking $1200, but he's already inferred that he would take less. As I
mentioned before, it's an older guy with time on his hands and he sounds like
he got it from a neighbor who no longer drives for little or nothing. He's
been tinkering with it in his shop for a couple of months (he
Way to go Curt! you weld like me ;-)
LarryT
On 7/21/2014 1:06 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
At this point its a game to see how long I can keep it going...
Curt
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To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com;
Fellow MB 126 gasser guy says when they sit it's the fuel distributor with
EHA that goes bad. Was bad on my neighbor's 560SEL. Can test flow. Anyway
just another scientific wild a. guess to add to others.
On Jul 21, 2014 5:37 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Finally
Any simple tests I can perform to determine if this is the case?
On the BW W126 forum a number of people have said that when they sit the tank
gets crudded up with particulates smaller than what the stock filter can catch,
and that ends up int eh fuel distributor among other places, causing
Also, would this car have an overvoltage protection relay?
I know later model CIS models did, not sure about this vintage.
Dan
On Jul 21, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Any simple tests I can perform to determine if this is the case?
On the BW W126
WILTON wrote:
Can we all take
this as a good example of how even mortal enemies can live in peace, harmony
trust if we look at each other as fellow humans in need of comfort without
all the usual baggage of politics and religion? I hope so.
This certainly seems a better approach than the
Hertzing wrote:
Don't forget we had two former governors on jail at the same time In
Illinois we hope to capitalize on corruption by making it a tourist attraction
Where do you live in Illinois?
Maybe we can meet up sometime?
mao
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Any rust? - as you know, that's your biggest enemy. Of course the
price of old mb parts is no walk in the park either...
LarryT
On 7/21/2014 6:18 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
He's asking $1200, but he's already inferred that he would take less. As I
mentioned before, it's an
I get the impression that political corruption in Ill. is more sport
than anything else. ;-)Each regime tries to out-do the
previous. the one who manages to steal the most money wins...
I lived there once for about 5 months. the longest 5 months of my life
LarryT
On 7/21/2014
I think a lot of it (for him) was cultural, in that the man of the house was
the breadwinner, the one in charge, the final authority, etc. I don't think
anyone around him ever criticized him for what he did (although it's remotely
possible someone might have at the time) but for whatever
It was Trent's mystery shopper
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Gary Hurst via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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about a fan clutch for a 190D, please do speak now on how i might contact
you
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I've driven through Illinois several times and have passed through O'Hare
several times; even spent coupla nights in hotels nearby. ;)
Wilton
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Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 9:03 PM
Subject:
I flew out of Midway last time, the airport that's stuck in the 70s without
an ounce of charm. Convenient to downtown but crowded and very tacky.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:29 PM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I've driven through Illinois several times and have passed
By the way, I think the toughest job to do that I saw during my 15+ years in
USAF Strategic Air Command (2½ years as maintenance crew chief on B-47's and
13 years standing nuclear alert with and flying B-52's) was done by the
security guard standing out in front of the airplane on alert -
When I started having trouble with the '78 450SLC running right, I bought a
CIS testing kit from JC Whittney, I don't remember that it was very
expensive at the time. It had the proper fittings to connect to the steel
lines. You have to connect in a couple of places to test the system
properly,
The leaking points are:
fuel distributor to throttle body boot (buried on that car, you have
to remove the manifold I think, but you have to anyway, see point #2)
seals between intake manifold halves (this is an issue for all the V8s
of that design type)
Idle control valve hoses
HF has a Cis kit also, it's the $100
One
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
When I started having trouble with the '78 450SLC running right, I bought a
CIS testing kit from JC Whittney, I don't remember that it was very
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