Grab all loose metric nuts and bolts for my spares box.

I have a jar of nuts and bolts I took from my parts car. Its very usefull for a butter fingers like me who loses things.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

it's far simpler to just take entire cars and park them in your yard for later obsessive gathering...

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

True, but some of us have "The wife factor".......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

... ya mean THAT's her problem?

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Back in 1987 my (no longer current) DH found a Fiat Spider convertable that he just fell in love with and had to have. We bought it for $700. It was in bad shape.
When we got it home (apartment complex) I started going over it and found the front brakes had no calipers and only one rotor.
The Austin area had a few decent pull it yourselves so we went out looking. Only one place even had a car like ours but it had calipers! The car was surrounded by Fire Ant hills. I had no idea I was allergic to fire ants!
I was told they bite, but didn't really understand how bad it could be.
I was bitten enough that I ended up needing emergency help while still in the yard.
The owner gave us the calipers and they rode in the ambulance with me.

As an aside, I worked on that car for about 6 months, redoing most of the electrical, full brakes, and replacing the convertable top. It was a really fun car to drive.

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Ginny in Denver-ish
78 300SD, 265K (mine)

WE have a Winnah!!!!

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

whats a DH?

fire ants blow.. I always have to look out down here when changing my oil or when going to the yard

Darling Husband

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BENZ THERE DONE THAThttp://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...c/progress.gif
15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
(o\|/o)

It's on the list.


Huh, I thought for sure the "D" was for damn.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

In my case it means d1ck H@3d!

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Ginny in Denver-ish
78 300SD, 265K (mine)

Drove a little over 200 miles to NJ to pick up a complete 240D motor and trans and carry it back in one piece in a beater 4 banger 89 Mustang hatchback.

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83 300D 328k mi (623) Light Ivory - daily driver
82 300D 166k mi (881) Thisle Green - fixer upper
82 300D 282k mi (473) Champagne - parts

^^^^^^Don't say that.

Just say, whenever he had to go to the toilet, he had to take his hat off.

You are supposed to be polite here on DD.


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As to the question here,

I was in the Mercedes junkyard in the pouring rain, trying to separate a European delivery badge off a W108 grille.

This was about a month ago.

Today up here, there is a REALLY bad snowstorm, just now, and the news reports are of cars crashing, wrecking, going off the roads everywhere.
Clueless drivers all over the place. VERY good day to stay inside.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

When I found the euro interior that I now have I was like


" A euro.. in a local junk yard... I have only read about these on the forum... I'm pulling everything euro from this sucker!"

Not referencing any particular car or part but back in the day (late 70's-early 80's), you could actually go into a junk yard and rummage around for your stuff. We'd always be searching for juicy V8's to swap into unsuspecting cars. Well, this yard we frequented had a habit of stacking cars on top of one another and of course, the car we wanted to pick over was always on the bottom and the surly yard men didn't want to always be fork lifting cars for us kids. Anyway, we got to where we would simply get under and push the top car off onto the ground (it's not that hard for two people to topple a mostly stripped car off another. Heck, sometimes one of us would be working under a stack of cars and the other would come climbing all over them looking and knock a couple to the ground by accident. That was some dumb stuff we did right there...). We'd then run like Hell to another side of the yard in case someone saw us then sneak back over a while later and see what we found.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250