Diesel RVs

Yeah, I think that window lasted all of, what? 45-minutes?

The K10's a long bed; one of the characteristics that makes it "The Beast". That and the rattles, the gear whine, the other color doors and right front fender, cracked windshield, rusty rocker panels, etc. It's a handful in tight spots, to be sure, but I can't imagine not having a truck that can't easily hold 8-foot long panels of drywall or plywood, fence posts, scaffolding, etc.

The Beast is not a stripper; it's (or, rather, WAS) two-tone (gold and cream), has A/C, velour bench seat, floor carpeting, factory AM/FM/cassette stereo, intermittent wipers, Rallye wheels and deluxe front appearance package (stacked quad headlights bisected by a full length horizontal bar, a Chevrolet truck design cue that continues to this day). The Scottsdale was the middle trim model; mine has crank windows and manual locking hubs. All-in-all, nicely outfitted without being all duded-up and pretentious like the top trim Silverado.

I've converted it to TBI ("Slobber-jection") using only salvage yard-sourced parts. Completely changed the the whole character of the truck. If it looked as good as it runs, it would be show winner, no doubt. Maybe someday....

LUUV those big Sixes! They were only 13 cubes smaller than my V-8.

I'm going to have to go to Broomfield, or Castle Rock to get my hair cut next week. Most of the metro area is still under stay-at-home orders until May 8, due to the Denver and Boulder mayors, and some faceless, little-known and unaccountable quasi-government organization called "Tri-County Health" that has shut down Adams and Arapahoe, two of the area's most populated counties.

http://www.tchd.org/595/News

Not nearly as inconvenient a situation as you're facing, Nate. You'll have to go to Phoenix, Lake Havasu, or Tijuana....

Mark in Centennial, CO (the heart of Arapahoe County, CO)

On April 29, 2020 at 12:58 PM "Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes]" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Well mark ;

You missed the brief window where the price of a barrel of crude went negative......

Too bad, right ? .

Rest assured, my oil stocks are still doing well, I hope my grand daughter is appreciative as I never take any dividends, instead they go right back into more stock purchase .

I may have to ride up to visit, my hair is getting far too long @ 2" and no barbers open here in Sunny Southern California .

? Is your K10 a long or short bed ? .

I had a 1976 GMC 3/4 ton long bed stripper with the same granny gear tranny and a long stroke 292 CID i6 engine, I loved it but it was too durn L O N G so I sold it .

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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

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On Apr 29, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Ben Pender ben_pender@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hey Nate, Guys!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anyway, that's what I'm doing.

Ben Pender
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On Apr 29, 2020, at 1:58 PM, Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Well mark ;

You missed the brief window where the price of a barrel of crude went negative......

Too bad, right ? .

Rest assured, my oil stocks are still doing well, I hope my grand daughter is appreciative as I never take any dividends, instead they go right back into more stock purchase .

I may have to ride up to visit, my hair is getting far too long @ 2" and no barbers open here in Sunny Southern California .

? Is your K10 a long or short bed ? .

I had a 1976 GMC 3/4 ton long bed stripper with the same granny gear tranny and a long stroke 292 CID i6 engine, I loved it but it was too durn L O N G so I sold it .

-Nate
LIVE in the world as it is, WORK to make the world as it should be

MARK wrote :

So, I went to the local Costco to gas up The Beast (1984 Chevrolet K10 "Scottsdale" trim, 5.0, Muncie SM465 3/4 speed), and I see the pump says "1...25" for unleaded. "OK", I figure; that seems about right. So, I pump up both tanks, and check the receipt. WTF?!! My card was actually CHARGED! With crude trading in negative territory, I thought I would be CREDITED for helping to remove some of this oil surplus! Something's not right....

Mark in Centennial, CO (I'll be able to get a haircut at the end of this week!!)