Re: [MBZ] very rare Cactus Green 1982 Mercedes Benz 380SL - $8, 800 (Pinehurst NC)

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
Very pretty. Same soft top color and body as Froggy. 450SL has green leather interior, dunkel grun hard top and hubcaps. Being let go to highest bidder at the estate sale taking place in May as part of the sale of my vast Seattle land holdings Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On

Re: [MBZ] 1996 S320 - 110k miles - $4,500

2021-04-27 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Hm. Maybe the lighting, or color balance of the camera? Then again I'm slightly color-blind. Looked pale blue/green to me. Allan Andrew Strasfogel writes: > Interior is meant to be creme. > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:46 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >

Re: [MBZ] John Travolta's 450SL

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
I scrounged a few of the data plates with the manuals at PnP. The original customer names were stamped in the metal. I think it was so they could swipe it like with old school credit cards to imprint on the work orders and receipts. Both Froggy and Gump had the plates. clay monroe 1974

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-27 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
You’ll be able to buy a new G-wagen to slog through the GWN --FT Sent from iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:19 PM, Clay via Mercedes wrote: > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] 1996 S320 - 110k miles - $4,500

2021-04-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Interior is meant to be *creme.* On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:46 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Paint looks nice but some scuffs on passenger side front bumper and door > cladding. > > Odd interior color -- seafoam green? Pretty clean though. > > Wheels are

Re: [MBZ] 2004 Sprinter - 139k miles - $6,000

2021-04-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Slightly redundant "will not start or run". If it won't start then obviously it won't run. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:40 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Does not start or run -- crack price even with the other features. > > >

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Washington gained one rep and OR also grew in population. CA lost one seat. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:35 PM Clay via Mercedes wrote: > Left coast is hemorrhaging people. It is so bad the poor people of Uhaul > have no trailers to rent. At all. People fled the pacific coast and went > inland.

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another one on the DNF list

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
SWMBA was down for the weekend. She reports that most of the planes are stranded unless they are on a real runway. Too mushy for ski, too soggy and broken ice for the float planes to get around. Grass tarmac is mire, as the permafrost is melting and swallows wheels. Clay inter urinas et

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another one on the DNF list

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
They need to get rid of Murkowski. Probably nothing of any impact will come of things, as AK is a complete mess of politics, where they keep erasing the actions of the last legislative session, and only fund things one year out. Big booms and busts, but now they have lost all gains made in

[MBZ] 1996 S320 - 110k miles - $4,500

2021-04-27 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Paint looks nice but some scuffs on passenger side front bumper and door cladding. Odd interior color -- seafoam green? Pretty clean though. Wheels are gawdawful. https://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/d/south-holland-1996-mercedes-benz-s320/7313290461.html Allan

Re: [MBZ] John Travolta's 450SL

2021-04-27 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
Yup. My 82 SD came with one. -Original Message- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:58 AM To: Okie Benz Cc: Dan Penoff Subject: Re: [MBZ] John Travolta's 450SL That’s not a data plate, it’s a metal plate with owner information that was

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another one on the DNF list

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
The grandstanding was what I thought at first, but it was for creating a scene at the airport and badgering an employee about having to don a face rag. Then making political hay by broadcasting her butt-hurt on social media. Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Apr 26, 2021, at 9:33

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another one on the DNF list

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
She was picking a fight with the poor worker. She should have just kept her bluster for her legislative colleagues and voters, worn the diaper for the few more times she had to attend the gathering. At least she is stuck at home, not trapped in the capitol. Maybe she can get a flyboy

[MBZ] 2004 Sprinter - 139k miles - $6,000

2021-04-27 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Does not start or run -- crack price even with the other features. https://lexington.craigslist.org/cto/d/lexington-low-mileage-sprinter-van/7313647448.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe

Re: [MBZ] OT: Driveway alarm

2021-04-27 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
No such luck here. I have large oaks on both driveways that drop copious acorns. The deer love them. -Original Message- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of MG via Mercedes Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:31 AM Oh forgot to mention, they have a vehicle only sensor which you bury in the ground.

[MBZ] 2007 R320 CDI - 226k miles - $6,995

2021-04-27 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Miles on the higher side but looks nice from limited photos. https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/d/cincinnati-2007-mercedes-r320-cdi-4matic/7313310975.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
Left coast is hemorrhaging people. It is so bad the poor people of Uhaul have no trailers to rent. At all. People fled the pacific coast and went inland. Closest trailer we could find (to move #1 boy’s things out of the house) is about 200 miles away from him. So, he would need to round

Re: [MBZ] New Okie Acres

2021-04-27 Thread Clay via Mercedes
Just signed a listing for my humble dojo. Realtor thinks seven figures, easy. Older Tudor style, so you either love classic, or you are going to knock it down and build to within inches of the lot line. Around me, the homes are predominantly post war suburb 50s/60s architecture on largish

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Not impressed by the paint job at that price. The color combo is somewhat jarring as well. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 5:17 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I don’t think there was anything special about it. However, if you’re > looking for the best 300CD, the 1985 model

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
It was. Half price sale. Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: April 27, 2021 5:10 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: astr...@indiana.edu Subject: Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD Wow $20K? Makes the $9K CD I posted yesterday look like a bargain. > Seller is going to drive

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Awesome story. Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: April 27, 2021 6:05 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: azbob...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this My grandfather saved his money and paid cash for cars. He had this cool leather envelope, which

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
That’s awesome --FT Sent from iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 7:05 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes > wrote: > > My grandfather saved his money and paid cash for cars. He had this cool > leather envelope, which smelled of Captain Black, in which he would save his > car money. When he had enough

Re: [MBZ] potholes

2021-04-27 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Sounds like RI politics. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 7:01 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > IIRC Providence went through a period where they paid out a huge amount > of money for damaged caused by pot holes. I think it was a way for some of >

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
My grandfather saved his money and paid cash for cars. He had this cool leather envelope, which smelled of Captain Black, in which he would save his car money. When he had enough saved (he typically kept a car four years almost to the day...always around my birthday in February), he would go

Re: [MBZ] potholes

2021-04-27 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
IIRC Providence went through a period where they paid out a huge amount of money for damaged caused by pot holes. I think it was a way for some of the elected officials to shame other elected officials into actually fix said pot holes... -Curt On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 3:47:38 PM EDT,

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Wow $20K? Makes the $9K CD I posted yesterday look like a bargain. > Seller is going to drive it across the border for him to pick up in Montana. Any import duties or customs hoops to jump through for something like that? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
As was just about everything domestic during that era…. -D > On Apr 27, 2021, at 5:23 PM, OK Don via Mercedes > wrote: > > World class ugly car > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:42 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >>

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
World class ugly car On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:42 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3857625577660232/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I don’t think there was anything special about it. However, if you’re looking for the best 300CD, the 1985 model year would be the one. -D > On Apr 27, 2021, at 5:07 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > Wow. Nice car but yeah kinda odd. Was that a special version or non-US? >

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Wow. Nice car but yeah kinda odd. Was that a special version or non-US? $20k, I guess if y’all got it to spend... --FT Sent from iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 4:55 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > A buddy of mine just bought this car: > >

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Well I bet that is what a low mileage CD is worth. One went on BAT not too long ago for that. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 4:57 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > It’s nice but 20k? Geez > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 27, 2021, at

Re: [MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
It’s nice but 20k? Geez Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > A buddy of mine just bought this car: > > https://www.autohunter.com/Listing/Details/3496743/1985-MercedesBenz-300CDT#loaded > > Sort of strange color combination, but very

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
If that were advertised on BAT, it would be a “time capsule.” AZBob Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 1:42 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3857625577660232/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > >

[MBZ] Nice 300CD

2021-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
A buddy of mine just bought this car: https://www.autohunter.com/Listing/Details/3496743/1985-MercedesBenz-300CDT#loaded Sort of strange color combination, but very clean and low mileage. Seller is going to drive it across the border for him to pick up in Montana. -D

[MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-04-27 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] potholes

2021-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Both the county and city have online claim portals as a function of their Risk Management departments. You fill out the forms, upload pictures and documentation, and wait for a determination. -D > On Apr 27, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Dwight Giles wrote: > > I hit a pothole here in RI a couple years

Re: [MBZ] potholes

2021-04-27 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
I hit a pothole here in RI a couple years ago driving the 300D 2.5. Went to state police and they had a regular preprinted claim form. Must be a common occurrence. They paid too-car that Dimitri now has. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:47 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <

Re: [MBZ] potholes

2021-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Eldest son hit a hole on a newly paved city street last week where a manhole had not yet been raised to the road surface. Hit so hard it broke the rear sway bar on his 2012 Ford Escape. Got the sway bar replaced and an alignment, after which I directed him to enter a claim for his expenses on

Re: [MBZ] power antenna replacement w124

2021-04-27 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
I think the 1994 version is different or I would buy it from you Max. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 11:12 AM Max Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Don't have a record of a sale, so I probably still have it. Out of an '87 > sedan, but I think it is a rebuilt unit. Would take me some

[MBZ] potholes

2021-04-27 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
You know it's a good pothole when you go airborne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_iJrc7KJyU ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT: Driveway alarm

2021-04-27 Thread MG via Mercedes
On this one you can set the sensing to exclude smaller animals. I don't mind the batteries since the drive is overhung with trees so based on all the other items I have that are solar and don't work in the shade after a few days I'm happy with what I have, especially since I have all those

Re: [MBZ] power antenna replacement w124

2021-04-27 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Don't have a record of a sale, so I probably still have it.  Out of an '87 sedan, but I think it is a rebuilt unit.  Would take me some time to retrieve from storage. Max Dillon Charleston SC Apr 27, 2021 2:08:05 PM Mercedes Discussion List : > I remember someone (Kaleb?) found something on

Re: [MBZ] power antenna replacement w124

2021-04-27 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
I remember someone (Kaleb?) found something on eBay.  I think it was for 123 cars. All of my 124 antennae work fine, so I think a used antenna is a good value.  Wonder if I still have one from Wilton's sedan?  I'll check my records. Max Dillon Charleston SC Apr 26, 2021 5:27:59 PM Karl

Re: [MBZ] power antenna replacement w124

2021-04-27 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
What does this stubby one look like? Randy On 26/04/2021 4:27 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: I seem to recall someone found a halfway decent power antenna unit for the 123 on Amazon for under a hundred bucks. Is there a similar unit for the w124? Mine failed and the car wash ate the

Re: [MBZ] John Travolta's 450SL

2021-04-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
As the kids used to say, Big Whoop. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 9:58 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > That’s not a data plate, it’s a metal plate with owner information that > was used by a lot of car dealers back in the day. They stamped it with all > of the owner’s

Re: [MBZ] very rare Cactus Green 1982 Mercedes Benz 380SL - $8, 800 (Pinehurst NC)

2021-04-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
"All original" = Ready for a fresh valve job On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:42 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Local MB specialist estimated the worth of the car at $12,900 > > > https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/pinehurst-1982-mercedes-benz-380sl/7313148206.html >

[MBZ] very rare Cactus Green 1982 Mercedes Benz 380SL - $8, 800 (Pinehurst NC)

2021-04-27 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Local MB specialist estimated the worth of the car at $12,900 https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/pinehurst-1982-mercedes-benz-380sl/7313148206.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

[MBZ] Some people are asking 15k for the same car -- Beauty - $7, 900 (Franklinton)

2021-04-27 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
my phone doesn't work sideways -- the pictures leak out https://raleigh.craigslist.org/cto/d/franklinton-beauty/7313244269.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery

Re: [MBZ] OT: Driveway alarm

2021-04-27 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-04-27 09:30, MG via Mercedes wrote: Oh forgot to mention, they have a vehicle only sensor which you bury in the ground. I didn't get that because it won't sense people walking up the drive. I'm willing to put up with the alerts from deer that wander by there, it helps with knowing when

Re: [MBZ] John Travolta's 450SL

2021-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
That’s not a data plate, it’s a metal plate with owner information that was used by a lot of car dealers back in the day. They stamped it with all of the owner’s information, then when the car was brought it they put the plate in a machine like the ones they used to use for credit card slips

Re: [MBZ] OT: Driveway alarm

2021-04-27 Thread MG via Mercedes
Oh forgot to mention, they have a vehicle only sensor which you bury in the ground. I didn't get that because it won't sense people walking up the drive. I'm willing to put up with the alerts from deer that wander by there, it helps with knowing when to go hunting don't-cha-know. Mitch

Re: [MBZ] OT: Driveway alarm

2021-04-27 Thread MG via Mercedes
In 2010 I bought this setup as well as another sensor and the handheld portable receiver. That way when I am out and about in the yard, 42ac, I have communication with the house. I replace the batteries once a year before it gets cold and it still works flawlessly. Well except for the few

Re: [MBZ] John Travolta's 450SL

2021-04-27 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Interesting. Maybe so. It’s the rare 6-cylinder 450 too! --R Sent from iPhone > On Apr 27, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or

Re: [MBZ] Cat prices

2021-04-27 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
I never heard of DPF buyers. Are they buying good used DPFs, or is there intrinsic value in scrap DPFs? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: