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R Leo 01-03-2006 03:15 PM

What ever happened to Eduardo?
 
Anybody remember?

Palangi 01-03-2006 04:34 PM

You mean the brown 116 300sd that TX Bill imported from Ohio?

I believe Bill got rid of it because the iron moths were eating it up.

I think all those old threads got deleted though.

R Leo 01-03-2006 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Palangi
You mean the brown 116 300sd that TX Bill imported from Ohio?

I believe Bill got rid of it because the iron moths were eating it up.

I think all those old threads got deleted though.

That's the one. Eduardo was just BMB (before Mercedes Benz) for moi...I thought I'd heard that the rust got it but couldn't recall. FWIW, the 115 parts car I bought from Bill was pretty bad off as well. Fred Flintstone would feel right at home in it.

Has the smoke got in yer eyes at Ignert Ridge?

84300DT 01-03-2006 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by R Leo
Anybody remember?

yep, i do...:)

Palangi 01-03-2006 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by R Leo
Has the smoke got in yer eyes at Ignert Ridge?

Out at RanchoNoDinero, the closest fires have been on the other side of the county or in the next county. It's drier than a popcorn fart though, and no rain in the 7 day forecast. Usually around this time of the year we get one or two hella storms that wet our whistle, but not this year.

Here in the big city, a house a couple blocks away burned last week. Not drought related though. I imagine it was the usual busted heat exchanger.

bill threlkel 01-04-2006 10:30 AM

Hi palangi you guys need a little of that rain that we have been getting here in califorina. I have been reading the post on line but never post much. Glad to see you and r leo one line.
Hay leo hows that 240d doing?
Still have my 2 300sd which have kept me busy fixing.
Have a happy new year
Bill

R Leo 01-04-2006 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by bill threlkel
Hay leo hows that 240d doing?

Bill

Which 240? The 115 or the Euro? :wacko:

R Leo 01-04-2006 11:43 AM

Fire all around the farm...
 
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Originally Posted by Palangi
Out at RanchoNoDinero, the closest fires have been on the other side of the county or in the next county.

Someone barely a mile north of Berry Hill managed to torch about 200 acres the weekend before Christmas. I was out on the tractor, saw the smoke after I'd left my north pasture and thought I'd set it ablaze with the tractor's muffler but realized pretty quickly that it wasn't that close.

By the time I rounded-up SWMBO, loaded some shovels and other tools in the pickup, the Milano VFD's tanker was passing by....this had to be at least 20 minutes after I first spotted smoke. It was under control at that point; Gause and Hoyt VFDs were already there.

LarryBible 01-04-2006 12:41 PM

I think I remember Eduardo. Wasn't he from the Houston area with lots of 116 a/c questions?

It's dry here as well. If someone flicked a cigarette in my bar ditch, I would be in the midst of flames in no time. The county extension agent says that we are in the worst drought since 1956.

Paul, how far are you from the Mineral Wells airport? That was quite a bonfire.

Happy New Year,

Palangi 01-04-2006 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by bill threlkel
Hi palangi you guys need a little of that rain that we have been getting here in califorina. I have been reading the post on line but never post much. Glad to see you and r leo one line.
Hay leo hows that 240d doing?
Still have my 2 300sd which have kept me busy fixing.
Have a happy new year
Bill

Howdy Bill

Happy New Year to you also.

And Randy, Bill is the previous previous owner of Nellybelle.

Palangi 01-04-2006 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible
Paul, how far are you from the Mineral Wells airport? That was quite a bonfire.

Larry

Miserable Wells is 1 or 2 counties away, depending on how you count it.

I remember looking at an old Ponton diesel basket case out by MW airport a few years ago. I bet that place is probably gone now.

I think it was 2 years ago, or maybe 3, a big fire got within about 5 miles.

JimmyL 01-04-2006 11:24 PM

My town is protected by a volunteer fire department also, but not to worry. They haven't lost a foundation yet......:D :D

Palangi 01-04-2006 11:37 PM

Funny thing is, in Parker County, it's the VFD's who sell the fireworks around holidays. I guess they are trying to generate new business.

R Leo 01-05-2006 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Palangi
And Randy, Bill is the previous previous owner of Nellybelle.

Of course.

Bill,
Nellybell the 240D is doing great. She's curently my daughter's transportation while finishing her last year in engineering school and is bravely dealing with the geriatric issues that we all have to bear: fan speed control crudded up and only worked on low (or not at all), noisy speedo cable and, a set of subframe bushings are in her future. Otherwise, she's dead solid perfect.

She's achieved a certain level of notariety at Trinity U, by being what has to be the OLDEST car in the student parking lot. When Thing Two was still living on campus, Nell would sit literally, for weeks on end, eagerly firing-off after a brief yank of her gorilla knob for the intermittent drives back home. I had some fun the other day when my ex-wife called and needed know how to start and move Nell (Thing Two is taking winter break in Idaho with THing One). My ex has to be the most unmechanically-minded person on the planet and she was needing to start a vehicle with a gorilla knob!

This spring, I'm giving Thing Two my W123 Euro 240 as a graduation gift so that I can once again, have Nell all for myself.

Nell is a fantastic car, thanks for taking such great care of her.

bill threlkel 01-05-2006 10:26 AM

Thanks for the info on the 240d I really loved that car glad to see her doing so well. Had to sell her because to many cars and the wife could not drive her because of a back problem, hurt her leg. Did not want her to just sit, cars that just sit just rot away. Any way the wife just finished a rehab in spinal decompression and after 23 years of pain the pain is gone. This is quite amazing. So i mite be in the market for a standard transmission car.
If an body want the info on the back rehab let me know.
Bill

SD Blue 01-05-2006 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Palangi
........I remember looking at an old Ponton diesel basket case out by MW airport a few years ago. I bet that place is probably gone now.
.

Are you talking about the old military air base west of Miserable Wells? If so, it's still there. I went by there a few weeks ago. Seems like all those hangars would be good warehouse space. Hmmm......, maybe great workshops for MB's.:D

Diesel4me 01-05-2006 06:10 PM

If yall are talking about Eduardo the brown W116 300 SD I bought from Aaron Greenberg in Cleveland, I sold that car a few years back before the seats went through the floor. The new owner never changed the registration into his own name and the last i heard from the car, it was sitting in a HPD impound lot and I was getting the cards to come and pay for the towing and storage and to come get the car. I didn't of course.

R Leo 01-05-2006 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel4me
If yall are talking about Eduardo the brown W116 300 SD I bought from Aaron Greenberg in Cleveland, I sold that car a few years back before the seats went through the floor. The new owner never changed the registration into his own name and the last i heard from the car, it was sitting in a HPD impound lot and I was getting the cards to come and pay for the towing and storage and to come get the car. I didn't of course.

Howyadoin Bill?

That's the one. Didn't that car have legendary perfomance? Ever figure out what made it that way?

Aaron 01-05-2006 08:12 PM

Eduardo was my car!!
 
Hey all,

I was browsing the threads and was shocked to see this one! Eduardo was the brown W116 300SD that TXBill bought from me about four years ago. He flew to Ohio and picked her up and drove back to Houston. I've always wondered what became of Eduardo myself!

Eduardo was named after a mechanic I worked with at the MB dealer. He was from somewhere in South America (can't remember exactly where anymore). Anyhow, he loved that car, always wanted to buy it from me but I wouldn't crack, I wanted to drive that thing into the ground. One day, old Eduardo (the mechanic) didn't show up at work and we later on got word that he had dropped dead of a heart attack at his home. In his honor, I named my car after him. That's how the name stuck with the car--and carried on by the new owner (Bill).

Wish I had a digital pic of the car. Still miss it :(

Aaron 01-05-2006 08:14 PM

Heh, didn't see the previous post. Good to hear from ya Bill!!! Been a while!

Palangi 01-05-2006 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SD Blue
Are you talking about the old military air base west of Miserable Wells? If so, it's still there. I went by there a few weeks ago. Seems like all those hangars would be good warehouse space. Hmmm......, maybe great workshops for MB's.:D

The old Ft. Wolters is on the east side of MW. It is an industrial park / state park / state prison now, but no airfield. MW airport is kind of on the south side of town. The old ponton I looked at was south of the airport which is where the fire was.

SD Blue 01-05-2006 11:09 PM

Hmmm......, The old air field I was thinking about is closer to Palo Pinto. I've seen it several times, driving by, but there are no markings or signs. If you go to Google maps and satellite or hybrid view it is plainly visible (large white square).

Diesel4me 01-06-2006 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by R Leo
Howyadoin Bill?

That's the one. Didn't that car have legendary perfomance? Ever figure out what made it that way?

Howdy. That was a pretty fast diesel, yes. I don't know what made it that way except for maybe all of the steel that was missing.:eek: I know I left a pretty good size chunk of rusty metal in Greg's driveway one day.

LarryBible 01-06-2006 08:52 AM

Wow, this thread is turning into old home week!

I haven't seen posts by Bill or Aaron in a long time. Of course, I went a long time without posting myself.

Aaron, once I read your post I remembered when you told about your friend dropping dead and the car, but I did not associate it with the guy in Houston when I started reading the thread. Your list of cars is much shorter. Did you liquidate or just decide to shorten your list. I'm still ready to ride in your convertible to the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert.

Bill, good to hear from you. I don't associate you with your new moniker so I might have been reading zillions of your posts and just not realized it. Why don't you get another pallet load of bottled water so we can have a get together?:)

Paul, in my mind I associate Weatherford with Mineral Wells.

Everyone, in the early nineties I had a customer whose business was located in the old Fort Wolters which is now an industrial business park. It was kind of freaky. I expected to hear a Huey spooling up at most any time.

I think the fire that was on TV was probably at the MW airport. There used to be a company based there that did a lot of Autopilot and other avionics installation/maintenance. The airport on TV was most definitely an active airport which was easy to tell from the runway markings.

Have a great day everyone,

R Leo 01-06-2006 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Diesel4me
I know I left a pretty good size chunk of rusty metal in Greg's driveway one day.

...and you can bet that he's still got that valuable piece of fungible material stashed somewhere out at the Entropy Workshop.:D :D :D

R Leo 01-06-2006 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible
Wow, this thread is turning into old home week!

Everyone, in the early nineties I had a customer whose business was located in the old Fort Wolters which is now an industrial business park. It was kind of freaky. I expected to hear a Huey spooling up at most any time.

FWIW, I believe that Greg took primary rotary wing instruction at Wolters before his slick days.


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