I have a 1979 300sd I got some EURO headlights for it because I heard the lighting was so much better. To day at the bone yard just as they closed we came across a EURO w116 with headlight wipers on it. I have seen a lot of W116 EURO but never with headlight wipers If I can I will be there at 8AM to pull every thing I think I will need I did not even know they had wipers on cars that old. By Monday I should have EURO lights with washer wipers a third brake light the extra brake lights in the rear sockets and of course for safety reasons I have found a tail light kill switch is a nice thing to have and will have one on my 300sd I already got a ticket for 104 mph last year after 13 years without a ticket I get a whopper in a diesel no less. Joy does not describe my excitement.
Dave S

Of all the places I would have thought did not get enough rain to need wipers on the headlights San Jose is right at the top of the list...
So I guess this is a Status Thing ? Does it matter if they work.. or is it the cool look they give the car ?

Edit, OH GREAT, now I can't get the tune to " Do you know the way to San Jose" out of my mind......a great song which I am old enough to remember when new....

It is defiantly the cool look it will make the car look ten years newer. My son is 20 he has lived in San Jose his whole life I hope he gets a chance to see a real rain storm before he dies. I remember I think it was 1978 the last time it really rained here so I know eventually we will have a real rainy winter again some day so they have to work. You learn to be prepared here with the earth quakes. Where else do you carry good shoes socks bottled water and a few MRE in your trunk for emergencies? I guess that is the reason I have never seen them before here by the way.
Do you know the way to San Jose? I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way. Do you know the way to San Jose? I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose. L.A. is a great big freeway. Put a hundred down and buy a car. In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass And all the stars that never were Are parking cars and pumping gas Do you know the way to San Jose? They've got a lot of space.There'll be a place where I can stay I was born and raised in San Jose I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose. Fame and fortune is a magnet. It can pull you far away from home With a dream in your heart you're never alone. Dreams turn into dust and blow away And there you are without a friend You pack your car and ride away I've got lots of friends in San Jose Do you know the way to San Jose? Can't wait to get back to San Jose Thought I would help you remember the whole song since it is stuck in your head LOL

Bring your son to Central Texas.. Downpours (gullywashers) are the only thing we get... just west of Austin is an area which has one of the highest rate of flash flood deaths in the nation... the combination of the downpours with stupid drivers who will drive around barracades into rising creeks really pushes the totals up...

Da du da Da daaa duda dada....

Go south. San Diego has certainly had their share of rain.

In my life, I've been to SD six times. The last two trips I had to take rain gear....so much for sunny SoCal.

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I lived in Seattle for one winter and went to school in Chicago now there was rain and snow not to mention amazing lighting storms. I have even been in lighting storms with out a cloud in the sky when I and my dad spent a summer traveling across the country on a Honda 750 visiting 38 states. I don’t remember what state it was in but it was the first time I ever saw fireflies and we speared bullfrogs the size of which I never imagined for a nice frog leg dinner. There was an amazing heat lighting storm oh such fond memories of childhood.
Dave S

By the way San Jose has changed since she wrote the song there are 4 new freeways all the orchards are gone every inch is built up. I moved to the very south end of south San Jose 8 years ago my front yard is a hill with something like 10 miles of huge wide open farms on the other side of the hill. Now there is a freeway here there building 25,000 houses on the farm land. There almost done building a huge power plant just over our hill it is a monster. They intend to build 1,000,000 square feet of office space on that farm land. They are going to put light rail going there from other parts of san Jose. And it is going to be 75 feet above the road less than 500 feet from my house running 24 hours a day. Yet my next door neighbor just sold his house for 675,000 dollars and the new owners gutted it for remolding. When we moved here it was to get away from the rat race now there are strip malls down the street. I see the wrighting on the wall so I ask a realtor to find me a place about 15 miles south in the mountains around croy canyon road it is a dirt road that goes about ten miles up into the Santa Cruz mountains. Well water only most houses have generators no electric service in the summer wells are dry water has to be trucked in. He found one 1,800 square foot on a quarter acre for 1.2 million. I may well quite removing the AC systems from my cars and join you in Texas. Now the song is can you get out of San Jose boy have things changed I moved here when I was 5. I have lived elsewhere for a year here and there but this is or was home, not for to much longer it was such a pretty place it is a shame but that’s progress I guess.
Dave S

When all the farm land is covered in houses .. where are we going to grow our food ?

That land was hosed before the houses arrived...evaporation from years irrigating those high-value crops with federally-subsidized water from the interior (courtesy of the Bureau of Wrecklamation) has leached so much salt to the surface of that soil you can only grow weeds (and they don't do too well) on it now.

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Compost.

Nope. Won't offset the effects of the salt...

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yeah, salt pretty much screws up everything, try putting salt in a corner of your garden and see how fast something grows

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1969 220D 4 speed (parts car)
1976 280C
1976 280S
1981 240D 4 speed (parts car)
1982 300D
1983 300TD (Ivory)
1983 300TD (gold)
1985 300TD (gray)
1987 190D 2.5
1970 280SEL (sold)
1977 240D 4 speed (sold)
1974 280 (rusted to death)
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1927 Chevy 4 door sedan
1938 Chevy 2 door sedan
1950 Willys Jeepster
1955 Studebaker President 4 door
1977 Ford F250
1979 Glastron 17'
1948 John Deere A
1960 John Deere 2010
1979 Satoh S650G
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2000 Bichon (Doby)

They build the houses on clay soil that you could, make into bricks then dry them in the sun and build additions to your house, pave your driveway make flat ones and you can tile your roof with them plus hundreds of other uses.
But in its virgin unprocessed state a plant cant penetrate it with its roots. I am known as a bit of an eccentric because for years now I have an electric golf cart that has been modified into a pick up truck with a towed trailer. Every Wednesday I go through the neighbor hood and pick up the yard waste that is put out for pick up by the city I always have at leas1 six foot compose pile going ok rarely is it just one pile. My yard has had this compost roto tilled to a depth of 3 feet in the soil. Where I grow my tomatoes I dig a six foot deep almost 4 foot wide hole fill with dirt I make my self that black rich full of worms healthy dirt. I can say most of you have never tasted a real tomato in your lives or a strawberry you would probably be depressed if I gave you one of our tomatoes or strawberries knowing you would never taste any thing that good in your life. I could not even choke down one of those things the store calls a tomato not even a so called vine ripened $3.49 a pound ball of yuk and strawberries you put whip cream and sugar on them because they are crap and you need to cover the taste Ours a truly a taste of heaven. I pity you all for the so called fruits and vegetables they sell at the store. I guess it is like a guy I new from Kansas it is so flat and boring I would have blown my brains out he replied so would I if I had known o any thing better. It is fun seeing who can grow the biggest pumpkin with the neighbor. There easy to grow and grow huge but taking down the side yard fence to get them out front is a hassle almost as big as moving them. And you buy seafood from the store you poor things. I would send each of you free samples except I would hate to see a sudden rash of suicides by forum members.
Dave S