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This weekend @ Cars and Coffee & Super Car Sunday
Sorry for the short notice, but Blue really needs to use his TD, so the celebration is planned for this Saturday and Sunday.
Coffee and Cars with Pelican:
Saturday, May 20th 7am-9am
550 Deep Valley Drive
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274-3612
Sunday, May 21st- 7am-10amSuper Car Sunday
Westfield Promenade
6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
20 years ago, here in Los Angeles, Blue Nelson started shuttling vintage VW parts to swap meets in his 1982 Mercedes 300TD. In an age where we covet and highly prize the low-mile, classic car, his wagon has a different story. This week the trusted Diesel will roll over 500,000 miles of which he drove 400,000+ miles of it. True, many a modern car surpasses this benchmark and even the occasional classic car as well, but what make this effort so unique is the variety in which the wagon has been used….. as a daily commuter, limo, parts and engine hauler, shaggin wagon, camping car, Bonneville push car, Death Valley exploring car, camera platform and insert film car, vintage motorcycle hauler, apartment mover, picture car, just-drive-to-Key-West-to-sit-in-Ernest-Hemmingway's-seat-at-return-to-California-car, and his favorite a Mercedes tow car. By tow car, he has logged 100,000 miles flat-bar towing only Mercedes Benzes, mostly W123s; and in fact, probably some of the cars belonging to very people reading this. The hope is that the odometer will roll over 500K (its at 499,801 now) miles either at the Pelican Parts cars/coffee in Palos Verdes Peninsula or the following day at Super Car Sunday on Topanga Cyn. Just look for the Dark Blue turbo diesel wagon with his hand made custom wood roof rack and signature hub caps with white walls, and peer inside to check out the odometer, and imagine cruising your own classic car this far. How far is 500K miles? Wake up every day... drive to Las Vegas…. without a single day off…. for 4 and a half years. Oh and expect a half a million smiles from the owner too.
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