Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread OK Don
Perhaps a new SLC -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGgmMLSxC4w&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44q4-6z6JQ&feature=related -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." - Ernest Hemingw

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Wonko the Sane
Which puts you about a year older than my wife, often referred to as my "robbing the cradle." On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK Don wrote: > >> While the C111 still looks modern (to me, anyway), notice the computer >> images in this video -- >> http://ww

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Mitch Haley
OK Don wrote: While the C111 still looks modern (to me, anyway), notice the computer images in this video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZjr5fB-LjE&feature=related I fell in love with the white three rotor car that Popular Science put on the magazine cover in 1969 or so. I would have been

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread OK Don
While the C111 still looks modern (to me, anyway), notice the computer images in this video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZjr5fB-LjE&feature=related On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:42 PM, OK Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any or all of them! > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Mitch Haley <[EMA

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Wonko the Sane
Only if there is room in the corner of the Morton Building. Or perhaps the first museum piece in building #2. Hopefully you noted that I'd drive a Smart and an E300D. The rest of the collection is to polish and perhaps occasionally drive on Sundays. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Mitch Haley <[

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread OK Don
Any or all of them! On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were you talking about the C111/C111-II road car prototype or the > C111-III/C111-IV speed record cars? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9WdI_x3hc > http://www.worldcarfans.com/5040823.001/mercedes-benz

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Wonko the Sane wrote: I'd pay off my house and then buy a restored '68 GTO, to sit beside the restored Olds 442, which will sit beside Debbie's restored '68 Mustang ragtop in my new Morton Building. Then I will find room in the Morton Building to park my restored MGB and TR-6 and Cobra. And the S

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Wonko the Sane
I'd pay off my house and then buy a restored '68 GTO, to sit beside the restored Olds 442, which will sit beside Debbie's restored '68 Mustang ragtop in my new Morton Building. Then I will find room in the Morton Building to park my restored MGB and TR-6 and Cobra. And the Smart, which is what I wi

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Were you talking about the C111/C111-II road car prototype or the C111-III/C111-IV speed record cars? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9WdI_x3hc http://www.worldcarfans.com/5040823.001/mercedes-benz-c-111-power-elegance-and-speed http://www.topspeed.com/cars/mercedes/1978-mercedes-c111-iii-ar3094/

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread OK Don
Turbo 117 engine - set the speed record. Or the turbo617 engine - set the Diesel speed record. Or - any of the Wankles (sp?) -- I'm not picky! >> C111 ! > > Three or four rotors? > Or just swap in a third generation RX-7 engine, two rotors, 255hp, lasts > more than 50,000 miles. > -- OK Don,

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-22 Thread Mitch Haley
OK Don wrote: C111 ! Three or four rotors? Or just swap in a third generation RX-7 engine, two rotors, 255hp, lasts more than 50,000 miles. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For us

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-21 Thread Loren Faeth
to add to your list: 190E 2.3-16 5 speed The professional racer's daily driver in its day. 112 300SE is a nice car, and often overlooked as is the 111 220SEb 110 200D 2.4 turbo, sunroof, 5 speed. (ok, the factory never made one, but you can take a sunroof 200D, convert it to a OM616 turbo, e

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-21 Thread OK Don
C111 ! > Your list makes me think, why stop with production models? > -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." - Ernest Hemingway '90 300D (Rattled), '92 300D (Saber), ''97 Ply Grand Voyager

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-21 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Donald Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes when my wife and I go on a long car trip, we play a little game > where we > decide what we would do if we were to win the lottery. I was daydreaming > yesterday > about the same thing when I saw a 124 500E. Y

Re: [MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-21 Thread Rich Thomas
CL65 S65 SL65 60s 230/280SL (a friend of mine has a 66 230SL, very schweet) --R Donald Snook wrote: Sometimes when my wife and I go on a long car trip, we play a little game where we decide what we would do if we were to win the lottery. I was daydreaming yesterday about the same thing when

[MBZ] Lottery winnings and dream Mercedes

2008-10-21 Thread Donald Snook
Sometimes when my wife and I go on a long car trip, we play a little game where we decide what we would do if we were to win the lottery. I was daydreaming yesterday about the same thing when I saw a 124 500E. So, I was just wondering if you won the lottery and wanted to buy a whole stable ful