Randy, Gorgeous car!!
The 115 1976 300D that I owned back in '83-84 was painted DB 516 medium red (mittlerot) - is that your shade? Mine had a palomino interior but in D.C. the lighter the better so I would have preferred parchment (same as yours?) http://www.paintscratch.com/cgi-bin/makepaint2.cgi On 3/13/06, R A Bennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You will notice with a lot of TV that the accents are deliberately > neutral. > They don't really want you to identify where they are. Most people on the > street in the USA have much more of a regional sound than most television > characters. It never ceases to amaze me that folks in Grand Forks North > Dakota sound different than we do. They are about as far away from the > US/Canada border as we are but they have a definite US sound that we do > not. > > I have a cousin who lived in Kentucky for a few years and when she came > back > she had assumed the sort of southern drawl that y'all tend to use. She has > > now lived in Minnesota for many years and has lost the southern sound. > > My wife has relatives (uncle and aunt)in Vermont or New Hampshire (can't > recall as they have moved back and forth between the two states a number > of > times in the past 30 some years - I think they are back in NH). Uncle Lee > sounds like the Kennedy folks. He was raised in Ohio but has lived in New > England so long that he has assumed the local sound I guess. > > Always interesting to me. I have a number of old English clients who have > been here more than half of their lives. The British sound has stuck with > them throughout. They have not adapted to the more local sound - at least > to > my ear. However, they say that if they travel to England, the folks over > there think that they sound "american". > > Randy B > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zoltan Finks > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:29 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: 1988 Caprice Classic half track/ice fishing > vehicle > > > At first I thought the show was set in Minnesota. Very similar culture to > what they're portraying - accents and all (there is a slight variance > between the Canadian accent and the Minnesota accent). > > Brian > > On 3/10/06, andrew strasfogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The Red Green show? It's hilarious! > > > > On 3/9/06, Zoltan Finks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes! Love the Red Green! > > > > > > Brian > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.striplin.net > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net >
