An ill woodwind that nobody blows good. ;-)
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes
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It lost the rear swing axels?
Close! It [Buffet clarinet] gained a polycylindrical bore in 1955.
-- Jim
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This proves that poos is a moron and does not know what he is talking about.
Those were the best vehicle years. The under hood 450 cat is the best thing
ever. I am working on a plan to retrofit that into older and newer cars.
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On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Dan Penoff via
I'm talking about domestic cars, not MBs. But since you brought it up
As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of them
here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine compartment from
those cats.
Dan
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On Aug 21, 2015, at 10:24
I feel like the American car builders could have suffered through the malaise
era if build quality had been decent but considering the truly awful build
quality of the time its no surprise people looked to the east.Also considering
what crappy cars asia was producing if the Americans had kept
I wrenched heavily at this time and saw the worst of the pollution controlled,
poorly built American iron. It was gawdawful stuff and you could tell the
engineers were flying by the seats of their pants.
1974-5 were probably the worst years, in my opinion. Just horrible in so many
ways.
Dan
It was the beginning of the end for merkun iron too. 1968 cars had
rudimentary smog crap hung on em. By 1974, merkun iron was fully
smothered and were total crap.
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The most amazing car I ever owned was a 1950 DeSoto with the semi-automatic
transmission. It had a clutch but was impossible to stall when stopping
using brake only (break, if you prefer). I bought TWO cars in sequential
years in Boston and Minneapolis, for a grand total of $100 and sold them
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/20/433010969/sales-of-convertibles-are-decelerating-blame-the-fuel-economy
Dan
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On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
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Interesting, I have not heard that in the auto biz
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The cats were under the hood in only the '75 and '76 models -
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
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As for the 450SLs, those things were total nightmares. I've seen tons of
them here in Floridia, and every one of them has a cooked engine
Correct. And why, I don't know, but there are tons of 75s around here. They
used to be cheap as wine, but now people seem to think they're valuable.
Interesting story on All Things Considered yesterday about how convertibles are
going away, and how most manufacturers are getting out of making
Interesting, I have not heard that in the auto biz
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On Aug 21, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Correct. And why, I don't know, but there are tons of 75s around here. They
used to be cheap as wine, but now people seem to think
It lost the rear swing axels?
Close! It [Buffet clarinet] gained a polycylindrical bore in 1955.
-- Jim
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1968 saw the introduction of the new sedans -- ball joints and
double joint rear axles instead of the 1952 king pin front end and
swing axles in the back (and they DO jack, just like a Corvair, but
they don't flip the car over.
Included were anti-dive front end geometry and greatly reduce
On 20/08/2015 9:54 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
What does too old in a clarinet mean?
Whatever she wants it to mean? Played out (they don't last
forever, hot breath and saliva attack the wood). Old ergonomics.
Not impressive enough to her friends. The list goes on...
In this case,
Ah, it all changed in 1968, especially for the W108/9. The coarse MB tex,
the new ugly soft knobs, the heater levers that fell apart, the harsh strip
of MB Tex across the dash, things were painted sliver instead of chrome,
the start of some emissions controls, the torque converter. The list goes
It lost the rear swing axels?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
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On 20/08/2015 9:54 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
What does too old in a clarinet mean?
Whatever she wants it to mean? Played out (they don't last
forever, hot
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