dan
...You think i could rest when I go to SoCal
23/09/07
When I think of a long weekend I think of sitting on the couch, or going out to eat with friends and family. But oh no. The only luxury I get is that I don't have to pick weeds. But anything else is a possibility. So here is a Mercedes at the junk yard. This one has a manual transmission. As you can imagine this is pretty rare... Mercedes force fed the automatic to everyone by the 80's. So this engine has a manual attached to it and my friends wanted it for their Mercedes. So we went to the junkyard to pull this engine. It is nice pulling an engine from a throwaway car because you don't have to be careful. We slashed the wires and the hoses, we even slashed the tires just for good measure. So here is the engine, hanging there. This was actually cool. From now on I will be able to say that I have pulled an engine.
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In Rememberance of Dan
01/05/06
I saw this Mercedes parked at the Marina one day when I was just ambling around and it reminded me of one of my good friends from home. Don't worry, he isn't dead or anything like that. Its just that Dan has a Mercedes Benz 300 SE from the early 90s. I thought this was funny because here is a Mercedes from the same era and the owner has made a small mod. Normally on a Benz like this there is a small plastic tab that pops out from the grill when you pop the hood from the inside. However this guys has broken off and so he has replaced it with a piece of a coathangar. This reminds me of Dan because his fell off and it took us a while to finally get the hood open. It was always so fun working on that car. Everything is so daft, yet it all makes perfect sense in a weird german overengineered sort of way. It's like when you take it all apart it all makes sense and everything has a purpose, but in real life half of the things they do are not required. However, it is all this that makes those old Benz's run forever. Something that can't be said for modern German cars.