I like Lawrence Welk. It’s wunnerfull. Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 11, 2019, at 7:34 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
