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flman
Giving Green, and libturds a break from butt hurt
My New 2006 Jeep Libby, has the GDE Hot tune, and the GDE TCM tune, plus ARP head bolts to bullet proof her. Still running her 18 years later, plowing snow, winching, driving the fur bag dogs around. Had to buy it and ship it to CT. to get around the stupid NYS light diesel ban, but it's all good once you re register in in NY. More untended consequences.
flman
Giving Green, and libturds a break from butt hurt
My former Ram, towing my race car hauler. Cummins 5.9L I-6, manual 6-speed gearbox, and manual 4x4 transfer case. I still miss that engine!
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Big blue had an ISB, was putting our 600 ft lbs, back in 2000 when I bought it.
3Play
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I had the same car (Same color too), but a 1960, You could grab the wheels and shake them about 1/2" because the spokes were worn, but too rusted to tighten....
It was really not built that well, but a lot of fun....
flman
Giving Green, and libturds a break from butt hurt
This is the beautiful 98 Jetta TDI, that I gave to my son when I got the silver Jeep. The boy drove it off the road and did an endo. rolled it on the 2 bumpers, and the 2 sides. It was on one of the sides when it was finished, he didn't get hurt, and we just towed it to my house, only a couple hundred feet down the road. He told me loose gravel, I said bullshit, because I was riding my Harley down the same road, earlier that day. I put the Borbet wheels, and tires on it. Sold it for parts, a guy from PA, bungled it together, and drove it home.
bigb
2011 Winnebago Via 25Q on 2010 3500 Tucson, AZ
My 24 year old pristine Jeep TJ and my 22 year old pristine Superduty 4X4 7.3 Powerstroke diesel. The Jeep pic below is from Tuesday when I just finished installing the factory wheels with new 30" tires. The Powerstroke I've owned since 2009, I installed 2004 OEM 18" Lariat wheels with 275/75/R18s. 180,000 miles but still like new. (In the last pic you can see my 2015 VW Golf Sportwagen TDI. We put 10 gallons of fuel in it every 3-4 weeks) Southern vehicles and not a spec of rust on anything save for the surface rust on the exhaust systems.
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bigb
2011 Winnebago Via 25Q on 2010 3500 Tucson, AZ
and damn little rain
Green Maned Lion
Der Unverbesserliche.
I went through a bunch of cars between 17 and 18, all MBs, all diesels, a '76 240D, '82 240D, iirc '84 300D, '85 300TD. Didn't have a digital camera in those days, and I haven't scanned photos. My dad got so fed up with me parking rusty, poor condition, airbag less (that was big one), piles of junk in front of his house, he got a great deal on this sucker for me in 2002, HS graduation present, 18th birthday present, $7500 with 120k miles and all dealer service records, from a friend. I gave him the 300TD to dispose of as my share. 1995 C220. The previous owner was a friend of my dads- hence the bargain price- and he had named it The Green Hornet, a name I never chose to change, but never really used, either.
Three years later, my SA told me that it had the dreaded wiring harness degradation issue. 'Mr. Lion, I can't stress enough that the car has reached the end of its life..." My business was doing well, I was in school, and I felt very confident, so I was looking at a leftover 2005 E320 Cdi. My dad lectured me that spending well over $50k on a car didn't make sense when one is still in college on ones own dime, and I wasn't going to listen to him... except he found Rudolf at a local used car dealer. Convinced me we should at least go test drive it, as a fun thing to do.
It was one of my first real graps of the concept of 'enshitification'. It reminded me of all the things that made me fall in love with MBs besides the '76 saving my life, and I realized they were all missing from the 2005. It just wasn't as nice a car as the W124. Rudolf was utterly mint, had a folder half an inch thick of maintenance records, and had only 106k miles on it, for $10k.
Still own it, and I don't plan on getting rid of it even though it really has reached the end of its life. Rust bubbles everywhere, the sills are gone, the A/C broke 15 years ago, the radio volume control doesn't work, the CC broke 18 years ago, something is really wrong with the brakes, the outer head gasket is blown... and I'm just getting started. This is a recent picture, by the way- it's the perfect example of a 15 foot car- at least from this side @eurodude. Love's the word to describe the emotion I feel towards this car, as irrational as that is.
My business continued to do well, and I decided to buy a toy. I bought this 1979 300SD... I won it on ebay, with inspection rights, the very day I met my wife online, December of '05.
Three years later, my SA told me that it had the dreaded wiring harness degradation issue. 'Mr. Lion, I can't stress enough that the car has reached the end of its life..." My business was doing well, I was in school, and I felt very confident, so I was looking at a leftover 2005 E320 Cdi. My dad lectured me that spending well over $50k on a car didn't make sense when one is still in college on ones own dime, and I wasn't going to listen to him... except he found Rudolf at a local used car dealer. Convinced me we should at least go test drive it, as a fun thing to do.
It was one of my first real graps of the concept of 'enshitification'. It reminded me of all the things that made me fall in love with MBs besides the '76 saving my life, and I realized they were all missing from the 2005. It just wasn't as nice a car as the W124. Rudolf was utterly mint, had a folder half an inch thick of maintenance records, and had only 106k miles on it, for $10k.
Still own it, and I don't plan on getting rid of it even though it really has reached the end of its life. Rust bubbles everywhere, the sills are gone, the A/C broke 15 years ago, the radio volume control doesn't work, the CC broke 18 years ago, something is really wrong with the brakes, the outer head gasket is blown... and I'm just getting started. This is a recent picture, by the way- it's the perfect example of a 15 foot car- at least from this side @eurodude. Love's the word to describe the emotion I feel towards this car, as irrational as that is.
My business continued to do well, and I decided to buy a toy. I bought this 1979 300SD... I won it on ebay, with inspection rights, the very day I met my wife online, December of '05.
Back in High School I was looking to purchase a MGA or a Austin-Healey 3000. Both were sharp cars. The Austin-Healey exhaust had a good rumble sound. Parents didn't want me to get the faster car.
Since the MGA is English, the accelerator linkage runs from the driver's side, across the floorboard and through the firewall on the passenger side. My High School buddy and I were out for a drive when I decided to floor it. After a while I though we were going fast enough and eased up on the accelerator. But the car kept accelerating! It turns out my buddy had his foot under the accelerator linkage, preventing it from backing off. He had a good chuckle after he let me squirm for a while.
flman
Giving Green, and libturds a break from butt hurt
My brother had a real oldie, with stacked headlamps.
Green Maned Lion
Der Unverbesserliche.
If you know anything about the Russian watch world, or even if you don't- by the time I got my PhD, I was in a world of financial pain. I had this idea of selling office chairs built out of office chairs, and I eventually came up with the idea of selling them at flea markets. It was a bad idea. Well, the part of selling them at flea markets, anyway. I bought a POS 2000 Ford Econoline 250 to help with that project for bupkes.
This is it leaving, after a year, first losing 4th gear, then 3rd, and then seizing its engine. The chair business didn't work out, but I met a older Jewish black guy whose name was not Sammy Davis who helped me out getting started in the safety equipment business, and the van helped me start out in that business in other markets (we obviously were not going to be selling the same market he dominated!). When that van died, I needed a much bigger vehicle for the job, which ended up being this bizarre vehicle. I'm not going to talk much about it because I'm actually embarrassed about buying it, but its a class 6 rig with a 16 foot box and ridiculous staircase on the back of it, originally owned by a Sara Lee company called Superior Coffee, whose coffee was probably about as superior as their truck maintenance (or lack thereof!)
After a year of working 90 hour work weeks with 6 markets a week and Mondays being the day we restocked... I was very tired. And sick of paying the operating costs of this damned thing, so I moved indoors at a market, and sold this, and at about that time it became apparent that Rudolf was done with. I replaced Rudolf as a daily and this truck with 'Das Scheißewagen.' It wasn't actually that bad, but I felt it represented a nadir in MB products...
When my business burned down, about the same time, MB announced they were planning to bring the Vito here as the Metris, and I outlined my order and negotiated a price about a week before order books even opened. This was 100k miles further down the line for the ML, and it had a list of things wrong with it as long as my arm, anyway. So enter Blau Blitzen; this photo was taken shortly after delivery- before plates were delivered, obviously:
I was retail delivery #6, nationwide.
This is it leaving, after a year, first losing 4th gear, then 3rd, and then seizing its engine. The chair business didn't work out, but I met a older Jewish black guy whose name was not Sammy Davis who helped me out getting started in the safety equipment business, and the van helped me start out in that business in other markets (we obviously were not going to be selling the same market he dominated!). When that van died, I needed a much bigger vehicle for the job, which ended up being this bizarre vehicle. I'm not going to talk much about it because I'm actually embarrassed about buying it, but its a class 6 rig with a 16 foot box and ridiculous staircase on the back of it, originally owned by a Sara Lee company called Superior Coffee, whose coffee was probably about as superior as their truck maintenance (or lack thereof!)
After a year of working 90 hour work weeks with 6 markets a week and Mondays being the day we restocked... I was very tired. And sick of paying the operating costs of this damned thing, so I moved indoors at a market, and sold this, and at about that time it became apparent that Rudolf was done with. I replaced Rudolf as a daily and this truck with 'Das Scheißewagen.' It wasn't actually that bad, but I felt it represented a nadir in MB products...
When my business burned down, about the same time, MB announced they were planning to bring the Vito here as the Metris, and I outlined my order and negotiated a price about a week before order books even opened. This was 100k miles further down the line for the ML, and it had a list of things wrong with it as long as my arm, anyway. So enter Blau Blitzen; this photo was taken shortly after delivery- before plates were delivered, obviously:
I was retail delivery #6, nationwide.