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Old 10-31-2009, 07:24 AM
MarkM MarkM is offline
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I hear ya!

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Originally Posted by BodhiBenz1987 View Post
LOL ... well, I tell my friends, my real motivation to stay trim isn't so much health or looks as it is the ability to fit conveniently under a Mercedes sedan. I'll take caution with the bolt. I'm looking forward to getting back under a REAL car after brake-line wrangling on my dad's 99 GMC Safari (still not done.)
Funny
As a kid back in the sixties I was wiry...I could squeeze through a picket fence if I had to! Even til this day, I still have the mindset that I can still do this. But just last night, I tried to squeeze under the car to remove the bottom nut from the front exhaust pipe where it attaches to the manifold, and at some point, I wudn't goin' any further...I had to jack up the front end a little in order to get my carcass under there!

Lets just say that Ive gotten a little thicker in my old age...both in the head and the body!
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