On Tue Jun-25-2013 14:43, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RN> I think I may have mentioned that the MB I own had 130K on it a month   
    RN> or so ago.  I looked at the odometer again to be sure and it was   
    RN> 190k. so I must have been guessing.   
      
    RW> So, what you're saying is that it is barely broken in...   
      
   Runs like a clock.  I did have to put two cans of freon in it last week.  I   
   guess that Red Angel doesn't last forever.  (-:   
      
    RW> When I was looking for a suburban, most of what I was looking at    
    RW> had that kind of mileage and more. In the meantime, my neighbor    
    RW> Les, who lived across the steet suffered a fatal heart attack and    
    RW> his widow put all of his collectible vehicles up for sale. I asked    
    RW> for first bid on it when she and his brother began to clean out    
    RW> the house. When it came to it, they were asking $2500 and I    
    RW> offered $2200. Sharon, his widow was even more generous with the    
    RW> vehicle prices and only took $2k for it, handing me $200 in cash    
    RW> with the title.   
      
   That was VERY nice of her.   
      
    RW> Les took very good care of his vehicles (he had 6) and the suburban   
    RW> was freshly painted less than two years before his demise, so I   
    RW> can't tell if the 98,000 odometer reading is just 98k or 198k...sad   
    RW> to say that I told Les that he should have done better body work,   
    RW> as it waves at you when it drives by. Other than that, it runs and   
    RW> drives like new.   
      
   Does it have leaf or coil springs in the rear?   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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