Older brother had one in college. We ridiculed his ride every chance we had.
-D
> On Dec 19, 2021, at 11:11 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> wrote:
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>> Nobody really liked the Grenada, but it worked and didn't draw attention.
>
> Wretched car. My dad traded our '65 Mercury Park Lane for one.
> Nobody really liked the Grenada, but it worked and didn't draw attention.
Wretched car. My dad traded our '65 Mercury Park Lane for one.
-- Jim
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Keep the car. Lose the kid.
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From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
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Subject: [MBZ] I purchased it as a graduation gift for my son he does not
like it. Asking
Within a year or two my uncle sort of won that battle. The kids were
driving my aunt's Grenada to school and the 273 Cuda was back in the
garage where it belonged.
IIRC, the Grenada got rusty, aunt got something else, and the boy who
hid under the dashboard restored and repainted the Grenada
I like that my daughter unit exhibits traits of old personhood in her
automobile choices
--FT
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> On Dec 17, 2021, at 12:37 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> Much like how I scored the 1997 SL500 from a soon to be divorced mid-life
> crisis guy. He had five (5!)
Much like how I scored the 1997 SL500 from a soon to be divorced mid-life
crisis guy. He had five (5!) daughters, all within a year of each other, with
one starting college and the other four in high school. In an effort to keep
the car around, he offered it to them and they all refused, saying
My uncle painstakingly restored a first gen Barracuda with the big rear
windshield. New paint and everything.
My aunt decided it should be a beater for the teens to drive.
My cousins thought it was an embarrassment to be seen in it. The brother
would ride to school with his older sister and
A lady who worked in the office next door to mine offered to pass on a
very decent Mercedes sedan to her daughter a few years back. I think the
daughter drove it a few times and then decided that she did not want it.
Apparently, her friends teased her about it "poor little rich girl" or
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
King Lear.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 10:27 AM Jim Cathey via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> > the ungrateful son should be the one selling it, I'd think?
>
> No. Suddenly, and without warning, he doesn't actually own
> the ungrateful son should be the one selling it, I'd think?
No. Suddenly, and without warning, he doesn't actually own it.
Surprise! You don't like it, buy your own damned car.
-- Jim
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Give him Shank's Mare as a gift
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On 12/17/21 10:10 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes wrote:
If the story is true, I'd sell the car and skip on giving him a gift.
On 2021-12-17 10:07, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote:
the ungrateful son should be the one selling it, I'd think?
On Fri, Dec 17,
If the story is true, I'd sell the car and skip on giving him a gift.
On 2021-12-17 10:07, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote:
the ungrateful son should be the one selling it, I'd think?
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
Prefect car for date night or graduation
the ungrateful son should be the one selling it, I'd think?
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote:
> Prefect car for date night or graduation gift (except for my son).
>
> https://columbia.craigslist.org/cto/d/columbia-like-new-2002-benz/7421764099.html
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