Thanx Ben ;
That's quite a fleet, 40 cars .
yahoo began punishing me this morning for not paying, I'm forced into a labor intensive and incredibly slow to navigate basic e-mail program, I fear never getting caught up .
I too love driving my 240D, it's slow but very rewarding to drive .
I took my coupe out yesterday and was amazed at how fast it goes .
-Nate
LIVE in the world as it is, WORK to make the world as it should be
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 02:05:31 PM PDT, Ben Pender ben_pender@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Guys,
Forgot to mention that the 35-ish mpg that the Deathstar gets is much better than the 20 that I got in the Z! It's nice to have a nearly 600 me tank range! Seems like I was constantly gassing the Z. Probably because I was constantly gassing the Z!
Ben Pender
Fat-fingered from my iPhone
> On Apr 29, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Ben Pender ben_pender@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hey Nate, Guys!
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> I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. I've ended up working all through this chaos, which is good from an income standpoint, but kinda frustrating when I hear about all the "quarantine projects" everyone is making progress on.
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> On the car front for me, I don't know if many if you know, but I own close to 40 cars. 7 of them are W123's. 5 240D/4 sp, one 300D, and one 82 250, a gray-market car with delicately slim Euro bumpers, SOHC 2.5 I6 with Weber DGV carb courtesy of the previous owner. Of all of my Mercedes, until just recently, none were streetable.
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> Of the other 33 cars, only 4 were streetable. 2 Nissan Versas (one for my wife, and one for my daughter), my Renault Laguna thst my son drives, and my 94 Dodge Dakota (pulls my trailer). My daily driver was a '19 Nissan 370Z (employee lease).. Well, with this pandemic, I've been busier and mire stressed than ever, and do about a week before the lease was up on the 370Z, my Renault and my truck decided to have brake problems.
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> I was able to get the Renault patched together and back on the road and then had to quickly struggle with getting the control arms replaced on my 83 240D that was my daily driver several years ago.
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> So, now that 240D, my friends call it the Deathstar, is back in daily driver condition, I am remembering, despite being on the opposite end of the performance spectrum from the 370Z, that I really and truly enjoy driving it as much as any car I've had.
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> I think I'll get some time off soon, and so I hope to get the water pump and timing/balance shaft belts done on my Porsche 924S done and then I hope to replace the engine in my 80 240D and get it back on the road. And then rebuild the shifter and replace windshield seal on my brown '77 240D. Maybe by Memorial Day, I'll have 3 W123 240Ds on the road.
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> Anyway, that's what I'm doing.
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> Ben Pender
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