No wonder she has your balls in a box

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1982 300TD
1973 220D ambulance
1974 240D pick-up

Well, my wife has known for a long time, before we were even dating, that we were going to own many cars in our lifetime. I would often almost drive off the road while wrenching my head to spot an old SL or M roadster. Our first dates consisted of us going to car dealers and "considering" buying a car that was so obvious that we couldn't afford. When I look now at Craigslist or Ebay, and show her a car, she responds, "Why do you torture yourself by looking at cars you'll never be able to afford?" I say someday I will. She says, "In your dreams sucker."

Although my brother did buy a car without any consultation. Let me say first, that I come from a family with a long line of very strong, opinionated women. I fully understand that my wife can and will kick my a$$ if I step out of line. So will my mother and grandmother. And for some reason, all the men in my family are attracted to women of that same cloth. Must be Freudian. Anyway. My brother and sister in law were deciding whether or not to buy a car. Two days later my brother came home with a new Infiniti QX4. It wasn't really on the list of cars, nor anywhere close. They weren't even looking at new cars.

Needless to say, my sister in law was pissed. My mother was livid. My wife laughed at his stupidity. My mother was so pissed, that she was angry at me. When I explained to her (my first mistake, I was young...) that I was not my brother and this just goes to proving that I am the smarter and better child out of the two. She turned to me, with fire in her eyes and responded that I was just like him and the same dumbass blood that runs through his veins, coarses through mine.

So, I have never, nor will I ever buy a car without written permission from my wife, but I have gotten in trouble for it.

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MKIII88Turbo

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
--Aristotle--

1986 Mercedes 190D
2004 VW Golf TDI

Wow MKiii- your wife sounds Irish.

I only get grief when it's a gasser. So I vow to ...



okay-

I vow to love my wife and if I buy a gasser I vow to buy a doghouse to sleep in.


right now I'm badly bent- so even a 124 TD is off limits. There was one here for less than 4K and I did not even go look at it.

All of my purchases get run through the wife first, but it's always a formality. She doesn't care what I buy.

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

My wife (current) just asks if I can make money with the purchase. Smart woman.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
No longer selling Cluster Needles Paint
No longer selling New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

We had our first date when I was a year outta college. I got the firebird a year later. I met Liz maybe 18 months later. Liz and the firebird always knew I had the 230/8 first and while it's obvious what the answer to the question "me or the wife" would be, she's put up with Liz and all the others year after year. -CTH

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- cth350@gmail.com
http://www.111lakeside.com/

I can do what I want within budget but I can't touch her Caravan. And who'd want to? It has cost a little more than oil changes over 87K miles (got it at 100K miles, now at 187K miles). Granted the bar isn't very high, it feels a lot more like new than my 222K mile 87 300D. And bless her soul, I've lost every argument to replace the 300D with a >30mpg urban crawler.

Time on the forum is a point of contention. The only reason I have a laptop is so I can take the forum with me wherever in the house I go. It's like a Verizon commercial

Sixto
87 300D

I only catch flak from my girlfriend when the 300D is disabled to the point of no driving(which is more often than not lately )

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$60 OM617 Blank Exhaust Flanges
$110 OM606 Blank Exhaust Flanges
No merc at the moment

I told my wife that I wanted to buy us an older Diesel and she was really into the idea -- now she loves our car!

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1984 300D Turbo, 326000 Km, Thistle Green Metallic

Oddly , my old lady asked _ME_ to find her a Mercedes Diesel ! I explained to her they're :

A. noisy

B. slow

C. smelly

D. etc.

Her reply ' my girlfreind has one , it's great! '

So I found a cherry 1981 240D for pennies and she bought it .

I was soon hooked and now I have a nice 300CD we tour in .

BTW : this woman bought new tires for my 1968 VW Panel Truck when first we were dating and once bought me a Metropolitan Nash I was enamored of as my old Metropolitan Nash Convertibles is a POS ~ she rode in it to CANADA and back again !

She's cute too .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I can tell you how much it takes to get rid of a wife that does not like old diesel MB's if anyone is interested. It was worth every penny.

I now have a woman in my life that is as much a car enthusiest as I am and would not have any problem with anything I drag to the house.

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Jim

My cars are my mistresses. It's cheaper.

When I met my wife 34 years ago, she was driving a Corvair Corsa stick shift, and loved my 190SL. This, I thought, was a very good sign.

"Her" fleet currently includes the 95 E320 wagon, which replaced her beloved 87 300TD, the 280SL, and a very nice 68 MGB.

Still have my 64 Lincoln convertible that I first met her in, and I'm not allowed to sell it. Also have a couple of other family heirlooms she dictates cannot be sold. (54 Chevy 1/2 ton, 61 Ford Ranch Wagon).

Usually, she finds out I have a new car when it shows up in the driveway.

My daughters have been issued old MBs as they turn of age. Oldest got an 83 300SD, then upgraded to my 71 250C, middle has a 79 280TE wagon, and my youngest, who will get her learners next month, wants the red 73 450SL in the back field....

Teach 'em young.....

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

OOOOOOOK...
I never really got grief per se... over the cars. ... nearly 50 0f them...
however, there was always an argument over money, and "if I just SOLD some of my HORDED JUNKYARD or some such, I'm sure we could afford it" ... has been uttered here and there...
ok, she's out of the picture now. I bought her a condo, and let her keep the new van, bought her a phone and pay most of her bills... I'm happier now.
the new girl just LOVES cars, and as long as they don't obstruct her view of the garden or the lawn, she is fine with whatever I have... I have not tested her resolve on me purchasing a new addition to the fleet yet however... she's got one flaw, she dreams of driving a NEW car every year! I have GOT to explain the economics of this to her soon.

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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 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

My wife loves her 240D, fact is, it was her that insisted we buy it. Shes not wild about having all the parts cars around tho, I tell her "If your gona drive an old car, have lots of em"

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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"