Are you obsessed with MB diesels? - Page 6 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

bill murrow · #76 10-21-2004, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim B+

...if no one realizes how remarkable these cars are, they'll "go away" like the millions of Ford Fiestas they sold but which you never see.

I've noted before, I have an interest in Packards...and countless ones were scooped up by enthusiasts (many just wanting a "station car") who fell in love with the quality of the cars and kept them up...and this was in the '50s, when '30s Packards were about the age many of our diesels are now!

I know where there is maybe 6 or 8 Packards that, in the 70's, weren't bad. Back then I knocked on the door, an old guy answered telling me to get the h outta there and don't come back. The cars now have trees growing up through them

The old guy is probably around 95 years old now and still as grumpy as ever I hear.

What gets into folks? I don't understand why folks do that??

Cheers,

Bill

tomm9298 · #77 10-21-2004, 05:47 PM

When I can't be in my diesel, I work on it. When I can't work on it, I read this forum. It's here where I find more things to fix. Then I can work on it. Then I can drive it. It seems I am going in circles.....

jeremy · #78 10-21-2004, 10:10 PM

The fact that I go onto this site at least once A day, although I don't post much I am more of A reader in the back. I guess you can say that Iam also A diesel head! I drive my work truck during the week so I never get to roll, in the benz but on the weekend I park the truck and drive the benz I love to just start it up early in the morning and listen to it come to life for the 22nd year of it's life. The thing I like about these cars are there such workhorses but with luxery in mind, so I try to drive it as much as possible, throw it in drive and go! What funny is most people scoff at these old diesels, loud and slow but I love it.

Carrameow · #79 10-22-2004, 12:03 AM

--Find myself staring at every 85 or 87 300D that goes down the road
-- Got up at 4 am to work on car on a RAINY day, came home and worked on it again!
---probably cheaper to buy a new car (????) or at least the same...probaly spend some $200 on parts a month between my 85 300D, 87 300D and 91 Volvo 940
---am I strange?

ISmellDiesel · #80 10-22-2004, 01:40 AM

...I just can't wait in the morning to turn the keys and to get rewarded with that lovely hammering and nailing associated with getting him ready to work. Given the 25+ years my car has in service, I have yet to find a replacement of the comfort, realiability and economy 'little Brownie' has taken me across, up and down the country many times over and over

pawoSD · #81 10-22-2004, 02:25 AM

I count myself as a Dieselaholic, I just love the sound and feel of them, as well as working on them, and the reactions you can get out of people

Its always fun to see people change lanes behind you at night when you let out the power, they try to get out of the smoke stream.

I am not saying I don't like gas cars....give me an SL anyday and I will be happy, so long as I am not buying the gas....

TonyFromWestOz · #82 10-22-2004, 11:00 AM

I cannot understand why so many people on this forum take great pleasure in "smoking" other drivers. I drive an MB 300D and take great pleasure in not contributing greatly to the pollution on our highways and in the atmosphere by using Waste Vegetable Oil as my preferred fuel.
I try to drive considerately, within the road rules (unlike most other drivers with whom I share the roads) and only where walking is not an option,
Current fuel prices are a sample of the start of what will happen in the near future, if we continue to waste the "liquid gold"

Have your vehicle adjusted to minimise the emissions, drive economically and considerately, try to minimise your impact on our environment and walk whenever prwactical.

Global warming is REAL, it is having an effect NOW in many places on our planet.
"Smoking" other drivers is not "cool", it is a disgusting, polluting act which only serves to turn people against this marvellous engine which we all revere.

#83 10-22-2004, 11:29 AM

perhaps the last intelligent, civilized vehicles to be produced by industrial society, it behooves us to behave in an intelligent, civilized, mannerly way.

mbzkid · #84 10-22-2004, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by VeeDubTDI

I remember sitting at the front of the school bus in elementary school just so that I could listen to the sound of the diesel engine. I think I became obsessed at a very early age.

And listen for the turbo.

#85 10-22-2004, 03:22 PM

Baltimore and Washington via the B&O railroad's "rail diesel cars"...a kind of self propelled coach that could operate on suburban service either as a single car or a train...the smell of diesel exhaust while walking down the platform...along with the odor of creosote...are very early memories.

The Warden · #86 10-22-2004, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Carrameow

Yes I am and its not minor, its almost OCD (obsessive compulsive diesel)

At least you're only at the "almost" mark...I'm so deep in that there's no turning back, and have been this bad for the last 10 years, almost (since my early teens)...the last g@$$er I've owned, I sold in '99, and haven't looked back

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Originally Posted by jeremy

The fact that I go onto this site at least once A day, although I don't post much

You sound like me

Between being busy with school and other things, my post rate's dropped off over the last year or so...doubly so since Open Season closed

R Leo · #87 10-22-2004, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyFromWestOz

I cannot understand why so many people on this forum take great pleasure in "smoking" other drivers.

It's an Yank thing. Nothin' but tossers up here.

R Leo · #88 10-22-2004, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim B+

Baltimore and Washington via the B&O railroad's "rail diesel cars"...a kind of self propelled coach that could operate on suburban service either as a single car or a train.

Like this pair of Budd RDC-2s:

Oh gawd, you know you're hopelessly hooked on diesels when you already know how these things work...each power truck is diven via a big fluid drive torque converter and cardan shafts from a '6-71 pancake GM Detroit Diesel'.

#89 10-25-2004, 09:35 AM

I realized while watching the film "28 Days Later" that a London "black cab" used in the movie was diesel-powered. I understand these vehicles (AND the lovely old double-decker bus) are going out of style / service, but I'd like to know more...who makes the London cab diesel engines...in fact, who built the whole cars and over what period.

I always thought '80s Peugeot 505 diesels were really beautiful cars (supurb ergonomics...a dashboard change holder that belongs in the MOMA). Think their worst point was limited dealer / service network...PLUS the tendency to rust. Any thoughts on their engines?

300sdlguy · #90 12-31-2004, 01:26 AM

Obviously I am OBSESSED with diesels period. :-)