On Fri Mar-22-2013 11:26, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> FYI, my friend Harry would turn MB jobs away because he wasn't   
    RW> inclined to work on them. He was even reluctant to take a MB for   
    RW> free that somebody paid the towing fees on to get it out of their   
    RW> yard. Harry fixed it, but didn't want anything more to do with it   
    RW> and put a for sale sign on it.    
      
   Well, if y'all ever come across any MBs in the mid-Nineties range that the   
   owner wants to give away, I'll take them.  I can always use extra parts. After   
   all, the repair manual on them for that year range is $140, so you can imagine   
   what the replacement parts cost.   
      
    RW> Last I saw of it was when the new owner drove it off after it had   
    RW> sat at the shop for months with that for sale sign on it. He   
    RW> brought it back the next day, wanting Harry to do some work on it.   
    RW> Harry declined to even listen to what the guy wanted done.   
      
   I found a reliable shop here that can do the things I'm not able to do on the   
   Mercedes.  I'd like it to be my Lincoln mechanics, but they told me the only   
   foreign car they would work on is a Toyota.  I didn't ask why.   
      
    RW> Dunno why but any other German made cars (except V8 Porche') were   
    RW> acceptabe to work on. The real money is in fixing Asian cars   
    RW> because they're plentiful and so easy to diagnose and fix compared   
    RW> to European cars.   
      
   My Lincoln mechanics told me last week they can't get a response out of my   
   Mark VIII's computer.  That tells me I can no longer trust the guy my SIL has   
   known for a long time and has done so much for him.  Once I find I can't trust   
   someone, I forget I know that person.   
      
    RN>> I liked the front seat of my '57 Bel Air.  Way more room.   
      
    RW>> I was a high school student in that year. Not having the income to   
    RW>> buy a new Chevy, I opted for a $50 V8 Ford. I suppose that had I   
    RW>> followed my father's advice, I would have bought a fat body (41-48)   
    RW>> Chevy (big back seats), but then, those weren't up to my   
    RW>> expectations of a real car at the time...   
      
   I had a difficult time getting it because I had no credit background, but the   
   salesman moved heaven and earth to push the sale through.  It was a 2-door   
   coupe and truquoise in color -- a beautiful car.  The dealership didn't have   
   that color in stock, so they tried to talk me into a green 4-door sedan with   
   the powerpack 283 engine, which was the same engine I had exceot it had a   
   4-bbl carb instead of a 2-bbl.  I flatly refused.  When I finished with mine,   
   it had 3 dueces atop an Edelbrock manifold (altered by me) and an Engel 3/4   
   race cam and a Mallory dual-point distributor.  The original short block was   
   replaced with a Corvette block with 10:1 compression.  After I had the heads   
   milled, I could almost outrun everything top end except police radios.  (-:[   
      
    RW> That was my grandfather's first new car too. A 1941 Chevy Deluxe   
    RW> tudor, maroon. I always wanted that car, but he eventually traded   
    RW> it in for a 52 Pontiac, maroon in color.   
      
   The new Jeeps are somewhat of a disappointment, if you believe what's   
   plastered on the Internet.  I'd like to have a Pontiac "Goat".   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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