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Old 11-19-2018, 04:31 AM
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? Remember those little garage / gas stations with a house that used to dot the entire globe ? .

I tried mightily to buy one in the 1970's when they were worthless, no one took me seriously and there are still a very few left, none still sell gasoline of course and neither would I .

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Unfortunately every property developer in the country would be after that land now (only to find the environmental clean up bill to be more than they expected!) - but yeah I'd like a place like that too.


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? I wonder, if I sent you my rust free 300CD, how long would it take to be cherry once again ? .
Rust free W123? Never seen one - don't believe they exist!


Even so my rate of progress is so painfully slow I reckon it would be the best part of a decade before I'd be able to get round to doing it so don't look up shipping quotes just yet.
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