Yoko Kobayashi was my friend's mistress in 2004 when I bought my first w123. I used her name as kind of a joke because her relationship annoyed me. (35 yo woman with a 70 yo man). Somehow it made me feel better imagining she was slumming with the MB mechanics instead of spending my pal's retirement money at the mall.

In 2009 she was diagnosed with stage four cancer and bam she died. So fast I didn't even have time to put down my Hazet wrench. Hard living caught up with her.

Now her name is kind of a memorial to keep her alive. She didn't deserve that kind of punishment. I feel uneasy logging in but it forces me to remember her.

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79 300TD “Old Smokey” AKA “The Mistake” (SOLD)
82 240D stick shift 335k miles (SOLD)
82 300SD 300k miles
85 300D Turbodiesel 170k miles
97 C280 147k miles

Cool!! Yes Marathon was the other game. But Myth was the ultimate. There was else out there like it on Mac or PC. They were developing Halo at the time. I was online and playing when the announcement was made. You could feel the chill spread across the ether...big blue has bought It out. Bungee had gone to the dark side. It wasn't much longer that Xbox was introduced with the award-winning Halo.

Ah yes...those were the days my friend.


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1987 300TD
1984 300D
755,000 KM and going strong
BC Canada

Halo IS marathon...

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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!

marathon/pathways/doom=good old days. haven't played in years, as life moves on, but dang it if I didn't enjoy the heck out of those games when they came out.

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1991 300D

Is that right? I never knew! I played marathon for years, but when Halo came out, I never touched the game. Until today, I've not played another game since Myth.


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1987 300TD
1984 300D
755,000 KM and going strong
BC Canada

Finster...from a Bugs Bunny cartoon when Baby Face Finster, a bank robber, was hiding out as an infant left on Bugs' doorstep...he was a cigar smokin gun totin character that as usual, Bugs gets the best of....

No explanation needed. Although I do like the song also.

Pretty self explanatory. I swapped a 617 into my Toyota pickup.

Yup... When halo 3 or 4 came out, they included a map of the original game rendered in modern graphics... I nearly went and bought an Xbox to play it...

FYI... All three original marathon games are free ports for Mac, windows, and iPad... With modern graphics...
I'm just sayinn

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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!

...mine's just where I live (in adjective form). Still living here. And I still don't have a garage (too urban). Shade tree all the way, except when too cold, and then I just suffer.

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1987 300TD Black/Palomino 120k on donor engine (thank you CS), 305k on everything else

MISSED 1985 300CD Blue/Palomino 250k lovely but had to part with it; now wife has Jetta TDI, you know how it goes

With all the talk of vintage video games, I am surprised nobody is reminiscing about ZORK or Adventure.

You young kids wouldn't know those, truly old-school computer games.

And just so my post isn't completely off-topic... I know nobody cares but regarding my screen-name: I went to college in NYC and wore shorts year round. This is normal behavior in CA, but not so normal during hailstorms in Manhattan. So i became known as the shortsguy throughout my college.

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1968 220D, w115, /8, OM615, Automatic transmission.
My 1987 300TD wagon was sold and my 2003 W210 E320 wagon was totaled (sheds tear).

Last name and initial of my first name. Before I committed to buy my 95, my first diesel, I was looking for a source for repair info. I was really just looking around the site and didn't expect to be on very long. That was in 2003. Back then, there were very few threads specific to w124 606na and the gasser thread total was a lot higher than the diesel total.

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2009 E320 Bluetec 117,000
1995 E300D 306,000 Sold
1996 Ford Taurus LX 130,000 Sold
1985 300TD Still 225,000 Sold
2016 Ford Fusion 24,900

Zacharias, or Zak, is my Rough Collie/Aussie Shepherd mix, just over 9 yrs old. (Not the dog in my avatar, that's his girlfriend Sadie, also a collie/shep mix.)

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2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

... was out shopping for a Unimog, stumbled across this interesting old 190D 2.5Turbo, bought it on impulse, and joined this forum to find out what I had bought.

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Gone to the dark side

- Jeff

Same here!

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All Diesel Fleet
1985 R107 300SLD TURBODIESEL
2005 E320 CDI (daily)

LOTS of parts for sale!


EGR block kit
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/355250-sale-egr-delete-block-off-plate-kit.html

1985 CA emissions 617 owners- You Need This!
Sanden style A/C Compressor Mounting Kit for your 616/ 617 For Sale + Install Inst.

Sanden Instalation Guide (post 11):
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/367883-sanden-retrofit-installation-guide.html