Up here the two seasons are Winter and Construction.

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79 300SD - $50 out of pocket purchase
03 Dodge Ram 3500 CTD
2003 VW Jetta TDI

Shussshhhh, and don't tell the folks that are already over there that the rest of the US exists......shoot, if they find out about WV we will get Starbucks and folks who don't like li'l bambi killers......

Keep all the politically correct, yuppie, tree huggin', latte slurpers right where they are.....they are happy with each other, and are not bothering the rest of the USA......

SB

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Diesels:
'85 300D, "Max, Blue Benz", 155K, 27.0 MPG
'84 190D 2.2, "Eva, Brown Benz", 142K, 40.2 MPG
'77 240D (parts car)
'67 Eicher ES 202 Tractor "Otto" (2cyl, Air Cooled, 30HP)
Gassers:
'94 Ford F-150, "Henry", 170K (300 Six) 17.5 MPG
'85 190E 2.3, 148K....Parts Car
'58 Dodge W300M Powerwagon (Flat Fenders) Less than 10 MPG

WV is looking like paradise right now.The sun must be so Brighttttttttt streaming down through the Shenandoahs. I used to get wanderlust in the summer on those really bright days and on weekends I would get in my car and shoot down to WV from NJ...

I never realized how much turbo HP I was getting from the sun. All those huge projects, changing out engines, painting my car, rebuilding engines, were done in the summers and falls and springs. Now I basically do 2 things--go to Work, come home and Sleep.........maybe I am stretching it..I hung about 7 flourescent shop lights in my garage and I am still plodding along...

Yah, the weather is so bad up here its a wonder anybody lives here at all,

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Carrameow,

You just went a little too far west. On the dry side of WA state we have beautiful weather. Where I live we only get about 7" of rain a year. The bikinis are small and the girls are hot. Land is cheap and we aren't stacked on top of each other like the other side. Unfortunately finding Mercedes in bone yards isn't that easy. Its probably because we keep them on the road longer.

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green 85 300SD 200K miles "Das Schlepper Frog" With a OM603 TBO360 turbo ( To be intercooled someday )( Kalifornistani emissons )
white 79 300SD 200K'ish miles "Farfegnugen" (RIP - cracked crank)
desert storm primer 63 T-bird "The Undead" (long term hibernation)

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My recollection of what the sun looks like, if I am correct from memory, is that its a Bright Brillant Blinding Glare in the sky ,and that it hurts to look in it directly.
Around it the sky is brilliant stunning light blue and it coats the land underneath it with a vibrant energy charged spectrum, reflecting , bouncing and leaping and dazzling off every surface and bringing it to boiling hot intensity. Tools burn your hand and car interiors are like ovens.
Your skin bakes and your heart races. Remember the song "Summertime and the living is so Easyyyyyyyy" and thats what the sun brings to mind...Under its influence, we feel ten years younger and all our misery is lifted from our shoulders and all things are possible..We become energetic and inspired and blessed...
OF COURSE, that is from Memory.
Now I know why they call the Dark Ages the Dark Ages! I think i am going to catch the Bubonic Plague.
Can you believe it? June 18 and the clouds were so thick I thought it was February!!!

I go nuts anytime the sun is in for a couple of days, I can't imagin never ending rain. I think I'd drink a lot to compensate.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Okay, move to Sunny Memphis Tennessee....You not only get the beautiful sunshine, but you also get the humidity that comes along with it. Our smell even rivals the worst of NJ...You would feel right at home. You can wrench for hours without a cloud to bother you.....

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1979 240d 216k (W123) Daily Driver
Volvo 245DL 210k

1979 300D FOR SALE
2002 Tahoe 91k FOR SALE

1980 300sd 177k (W116) Sold
1980 300sd Parts (W116) Junked
1979 240D 121k (W123) Sold
1982 300TDT 298K (W123) (Sold)

If he's missing the aroma of NJ he only has to drive about 20 miles south to Tacoma Washington; there's a reason people call it "the aroma or Tacoma."

on the East Coast and its 15 degrees out thre.
But that never really happened lately. The winters were so short, like from Dec1 to March 15..I hope everyone realizes that I'm not complaing, Life is 99% attitude, and this makes for GREAT HUMOUR, as I said this city has some great points, like the women, they are so pretty out here and they look so lively and even more beautiful with their pale, pallid, sickly skin that never sees the sun ( ever notice how women look so much more beautiful with a wisp of sun tan...?)

I would be all messed up without the seasonal changes of New England. I'm even warped enough to love winter. The snowier the better. My uncle has been in Bellingham, WA for over 25 years and loves it.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

I'm just really tired of all the comments about the Pacific NW in this thread and others. We're all just a bunch of rain loving, latte sipping, tree hugging, blah, blah blah.

If you don't like what the Pacific NW has to offer, then don't live here... its that simple. I guess I'll do the same... if I don't like the thread, I won't read it.

As a former Oregon governor said, "Come visit us again and again....But for heaven's sake, don't come here to live."

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1985 MBZ 300DT
1969 MBZ 220d
1984 MBZ 300TDT
1981 VW Vanagon

I think Hartford and the other city up there (Not New Haven) are really nice cities and I think the people who live and work their are pretty lucky...

Yah, but when the sun DOES come out, we really appreciate it. I've spent allot of time in the tropics, on the water, Paradise, right?? Naaa.. pretty soon its "ho, hum , another, beautiful day". I'll take the PNW, where theres a little "weather action", but not too much

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

I am a happily married man and I probably get the Hots for Cars and Tools more than women, but what woman looks good without some sun on her complexion?