On 12/2/05, Mike Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
KIDS TOO FUCKING PICKY! Who gives a fuck what color it is.What
other kids get a Benz given to them? They should be grateful and ask how
much extra they need to work to earn a new paintjob in the color of THIER
choice, even if that
Tell you what, Tom. I've got a step daughter I keep telling I'm going
to buy a 240D for, maybe it should be yours *laughs*
On 12/2/05, Tom Scordato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LT Don said
father of a girl going off to the prom, asking for a set of
wheels. A Sprinter is the wrong choice!
Yeah
: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:51 PM
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Times were tough. Now people are no longer amazed by indoor
plumbingwhat a shame...
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Great choice! A 240D auto is a great first car.
I let my daughter drive my SDL one time and she immediately scraped the LF
alloy wheel on a curb. OUCH!
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on the other extreme: my four year old, when in a 1991 Toyota Tercel asked
(with hand on the window crank
What is this TURNY thing?
Ha! I love it. We just went through that with my 8 year old a few weeks
back when i bought an older Ford 1 ton dually crew cab, he got in the
back seat starring at the window crank with a perplexed look on his face
and finally asked the same question .
I can
No, not time for a new battery. Just time for the owner to pay attention to
maintenance issues on what looked to be a sealed battery. It is the
Interstate MegaMother that they recommend for a Benz diesel. Only two years
old. MTP-93 -- 850 cold cranking amps. Highly recommended.
Scordato
Bellefonte PA
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Mike Canfield wrote:
KIDS TOO
Bellefonte PA
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Mike Canfield wrote:
KIDS TOO FUCKING
Don oh that WV Bitumonous coal, golden nice stuff!!!/Tom
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Tom:
I grew up around coal
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Tom:
I grew up around coal crackers. They were all driving old Jeeps so they
could get to the cateye shift at the Consolidated Coal #x.
Don
formerly of Farimont WV
Tom Wrote
I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times
still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing.
Do any of you remember when all headlights were required to have the top
half of the lens blacked out?
We probably had it bad but didn't realize it. Many families did not have
You didn't even have indoor plumbing, did you? I can still remember homes
with outhouses, and I was born in the early 50s.
On 12/3/05, Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Wrote
I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times
still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing.
Times were tough. Now people are no longer amazed by indoor
plumbingwhat a shame...
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When you were born, I was a Marine without indoor plumbing in Korea.
Growing up, we moved into a house with plumbing when I was in the 2nd grade.
Harry Watkins
Newton, MS
86 SDL Silver
85 300D Euro
86 SDL Gold
81 240D manual trans
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, December 02, 2005 8:39 PM
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You didn't even have indoor plumbing, did you? I can still remember homes
with outhouses, and I was born in the early 50s.
On 12/3/05, Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Wrote
I am sure folks older than me
Oohhh Gump has one of those. Better give it a drink of water
On Friday, December 2, 2005, at 04:11 PM, LT Don wrote:
No, not time for a new battery. Just time for the owner to pay
attention to
maintenance issues on what looked to be a sealed battery. It is the
Interstate MegaMother
Subject: Re: [MBZ] cold day reflections on owning a diesel
Tom Wrote
I am sure folks older than me can remember much harder times
still than the premadonna stuff I am spewing.
Do any of you remember when all headlights were required to have the top
half of the lens blacked out?
We probably had
It has happened every winter since I bought my '77 240D. Today it happened
again. I jumped into the car at work to make a grocery run for a planned
supper (Mexican Lasagna, by the way), pre-glowed, pre-glow light no longer
illuminated, turned the key, and heard a slow -- painfully slow -- crank of
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On 12/1/05, LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
B I N G O
On 12/2/05, Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, too much room in the back of a Sprinter...
Chris
Yes, far better to let her have the keys to an SL for the evening
or even better, buy a Fiero specifically for the
Yugo?
On 12/2/05, Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/1/05, LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
B I N G O
On 12/2/05, Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, too much room in the back of a Sprinter...
Chris
Yes, far better to let her have the keys to an SL for
On 12/1/05, LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yugo?
You want your daughter to make it *home*, Don. Without the need to
take the Sprinter to get her *and* the Yugo.
--
Knowledge is power... Power Corrupts. Study hard... Be Evil.
Unlike the Ford Festiva (i owned one for a while - great little car)- I haven't
seen a Yugo in years - are there any left?
Chris
LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yugo?
On 12/2/05, Ed Booher wrote:
On 12/1/05, LT Don wrote:
B I N G O
On 12/2/05, Christopher McCann wrote:
I walked across the street and borrowed a hot pack from the car
repair
place. Slapped that on and the old Benz fired right up. I will need to
search eBay for a good deal one of those...
For probably less money you could carry a spare charged battery around
in your trunk. Not as handy, no, but
The answer is the size of the back seat.
On 12/2/05, Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unlike the Ford Festiva (i owned one for a while - great little car)- I
haven't seen a Yugo in years - are there any left?
Chris
LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yugo?
On 12/2/05, Ed Booher
I hope to avoid this situation in the future. I've hoped to avoid it for
three years now.
What really kicked me in the nuts was that fact that I tried to jump-start
off of Deb's Buick and it was nothing. I slapped on the portable charger and
it was instant light off of myh diesel.
These are Benz
I saw one (a Yugo) about a month/ 6wk ago spewing through a mall parking
lot, it was rust brown (the actual paint color) showing some good
thinking-ahead on the manufacturer's part. The driver looked somewhat
counter-culture, would probably have appreciated the punkin-orange
Brunnhilde
I have seen one every now and then. What was that movie that had Danny
Devito in it, and everyone in the town had a Yugo, he was the sherrif I
do believe.
Christopher McCann wrote:
Unlike the Ford Festiva (i owned one for a while - great little car)- I haven't
seen a Yugo in years - are
Ed Booher wrote:
You want your daughter to make it *home*, Don. Without the need to
take the Sprinter to get her *and* the Yugo.
A Fiero's no good, then. Although when you see the fire engine go by,
you'll know which direction to drive in to pick her up.
Nah - let her drive the 240D - just take the back seat bottom cushion out first!
On 12/1/05, Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/1/05, LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
B I N G O
On 12/2/05, Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, too much room in the back of a
On 12/1/05, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Booher wrote:
You want your daughter to make it *home*, Don. Without the need to
take the Sprinter to get her *and* the Yugo.
A Fiero's no good, then. Although when you see the fire engine go by,
you'll know which direction to drive
I have seen one every now and then. What was that movie that had Danny
Devito in it, and everyone in the town had a Yugo, he was the sherrif I
do believe.
_Drowning_Mona_. Hilarious. I wonder how they found enough intact
Yugos to film.
-- Jim
I really don't mean to start these threads -- it is sort of a ... what is
the word, steam of ..
On 12/2/05, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have seen one every now and then. What was that movie that had Danny
Devito in it, and everyone in the town had a Yugo, he was the sherrif I
do
Dude, if you have ten daughters and no boy, I think it was time to tie
the dongle in a knot about five kids ago. That or get a softball team
going.
On Thursday, December 1, 2005, at 04:31 PM, Christopher McCann wrote:
That's my answer too. If I don't wreck it, I don't plan on ever
buying
MR2 or Fiero. My daughter was going to get the 85 MR2. Damn kid
turned out to be a boy, so Gump came into my life. Has to have
something safe, but backseat able to accommodate action
On Thursday, December 1, 2005, at 04:39 PM, LT Don wrote:
I think I remember being 32. I was flying
I see at least one each season at the pick and pull-- Yugo that is.
On Thursday, December 1, 2005, at 06:03 PM, Christopher McCann wrote:
Unlike the Ford Festiva (i owned one for a while - great little car)-
I haven't seen a Yugo in years - are there any left?
Chris
LT Don [EMAIL
retro)
Tom Scordato
1977 300D 261k
1979 240D 76k
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I think I remember being 32
Tom Scordato wrote:
At least it is candy apple red... (they hate it and may never drive it too
retro)
In the early 1980's, my uncle had a nicely restored 196x Barracuda.
(the early style that resembled a Rambler Marlin)
He had a couple of high schoolers who didn't want to be seen in it, too
old
with it?
-Curt
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I was surprised, no shocked, well I almost drove off the road, last spring
to see a Yugo parked on a lawn for sale last spring here in central MA.
I remember seeing Yugos on display in the mall
some guy drove across the US on hemp oil to publicize the uses of hemp...I
checked the cost - $81/gallon...
http://www.hempcar.org/indexOLD.html
hmm, was a 300TD too...actually hemp BioD. Interesting.
Chris
Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw one (a Yugo) about a month/
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I think I remember being 32. I was flying Beechcraft T-34's upside down
over
Florida and Alabama. No, that was when I was 31. Oh, I can't
Mike Canfield wrote:
KIDS TOO FUCKING PICKY! Who gives a fuck what color it is.What
other kids get a Benz given to them? They should be grateful and ask how
much extra they need to work to earn a new paintjob in the color of THIER
choice, even if that color IS terrible.
DAMN
Amen,
I was happy to drive whatever was available,and ran. I even drove trucks
to school, if there was no car available (and when my parents were out of
town.) I worked my butt of to save enough money to buy a rustbucket Ghia.
I gave #1 son the 200D, with the caveat that he had to fix
Mike Canfield wrote:
KIDS TOO radio edit PICKY! Who gives a radio edit what color it is.What
other kids get a Benz given to them? They should be grateful and ask how
much extra they need to work to earn a new paintjob in the color of THIER
choice, even if that color IS terrible.
If you are in a family way then please let us know. Either you've been
dishonest about your actual gender or you are a medical miracle.
On 12/2/05, tom savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should I ever find myself in a family way, I pray they'll a) be boys,
and b) want nothing to do with Dad's
My fam all bought cars off each other. My first was an 88? 86? Volkswagen
Quantum Wagon, in line 5, manny, all wheel drive. Like a tank, fun. Then
bought the Festiva from my Dad, grandparents loaned me the money, paid them
back $40 and they told me to forget paying them back the rest, which
LT Don wrote:
If you are in a family way then please let us know. Either you've been
dishonest about your actual gender or you are a medical miracle.
Oh you'll find out right away - Clay will post all my videos to Banned
posthaste.
Tom
Christopher McCann wrote:
But I certainly did not expect to get any car for free.
The deal in my family was I got free use of a family car (but had to pay
for my own gas) as long as I was in college. Once I graduated and moved
out I was expected to buy my own car.
How old is the battery? May be time for a new one.
LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has happened every winter since I bought
my '77 240D. Today it happened
again. I jumped into the car at work to make a grocery run for a planned
supper (Mexican Lasagna, by the way), pre-glowed, pre-glow
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