And be sure to catch Lawrence Welk at 6:00 pm Saturdays on your local PBS station. You will have just arrived home from the “early bird special” at the local grub factory….
-D > On Aug 11, 2019, at 8:14 PM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Today was the local section MBCA Show and Shine. Nice selection of cars on > the field. We had a large number (eight) from Canadia come down to show > their rides. The funny thing was the tuner types who I had not seen before. > > It seems there is a shadow Benz Club in town. Mostly younger people with > newer tuner cars from 2005+. I got to talking with a fellow and he tells me > they are organized online, like with Fakebuuk or other online dating site, > and the oldest guy in their group of seven hundred members is almost 40. I > am astounded. For some reason our leadership is not reaching out to these > people to enlarge and strengthen the club. I was sure these people were a > stealth tribe, so I introduce the fellow and his gal to the club President. > He knew about the group and there were six or seven others of that clan in > attendance. All in hopped up AMG livery. > > For the few decades I have been a member of the local section, I have thought > we need many more younger members so that the club would remain viable. The > bulk of our members are closing in on, if not many years or decades into > retirement. Their cars are of the Collectible sort with trust funds to keep > them running. The number of W113 and R107s there I would guess to have been > at least twenty, if not more. There was nary a scruffy car on the field. > Maybe the worst was the sole 450SLC that had the rear seating area under > construction. Not a Kaleb car to be had. > > The post 2005 cars were, as always, soulless. There were a few SECs and one > W140 coupe. The w129s were out in force. Most of the 1985-2004 bunch wore > AMG badges, when that meant something. > > At least the rain held off. Now I feel like I should head to the store and > get a few bottles of Geritol. > > clay > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
