Everyone in the world thinks you are nuts, Curt...except us. We understand.
These "heaps" (as someone called my 300D the other day) are more than
transportation.
I am a bit verklempt...talk among yourselves...
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 151K
Litchfield Park, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Diesel List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 5:29 PM
Subject: [MBZ] My friend the Italian Tuneup
Consider my friend the Italian tuneup. This week I've been driving my 190D
like I stole it, 45 miles each way to work and home. 4th gear and 65-80
miles an hour the whole way. Its become my mission to keep the tachometer
above 3000rpm as much as possible. Around town I find myself staying in
second with the engine roaring, people watch as I roar by.
Highway intersects are a trip, the 3500 rpm run down I 495 before merging
onto RT 2 is my favorite. It seems like the highspeed run works to loosen
the carbon and the downshift into 3rd and subsequent 4000rpm merge onto the
smaller highway expels it from the engine. I merge onto RT 2 in a glorious
cloud.
Unfortunately no one else appreciates my friend. They see the clouds and
thats all they see. They don't know that each morning my car starts a little
easier than it did just a month ago. They don't see the fuel mileage
creeping ever higher. How could they know that the engine is quieter now
than 3,000 miles ago when I bought it? All they hear is the roar. All I hear
is music.
Consider the heavily made up woman in the Honda next to me. To her a car
is mere transportation, a means to go from one place in her dull little life
to another. I consider my car a member of my family to be cared for and
cared about. I am now forever spoiled and will never again willingly own a
dull car.
-Curt
'85 190D "Dory" 236kmi
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