Sounds like a great time was had by all. I wish I could have made it, and I was really looking forward to it, but it just wasn't to be this time. Hopefully there will be another.

I'm glad everyone had fun,

That was Henry.

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2009 VW TDI Jetta Sportwagon 172k miles (rear-ended harder than Elton John on 8/4/13. Total loss)

1991 Volvo 240 142k miles (T-boned by a stop sign runner. Total loss)

I heard several folks ask if you were coming, so you were missed!

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2009 VW TDI Jetta Sportwagon 172k miles (rear-ended harder than Elton John on 8/4/13. Total loss)

1991 Volvo 240 142k miles (T-boned by a stop sign runner. Total loss)

Who can remember the winners ?Tarbe won best of show ,his is the yellow 300sd ,the car was so clean this car could of been assembeled yesterday ,with the odo at 83 k it was a great example of perfection...After that I lost track.

Hey JimmyL ,had an idea for a picture shot for next year,have everyone stand alongside of their car with the hood down ,may even get a high stance from a tractor for the shot with the help of Randys old German frontloader.

Henry won the funkiest award, in his case funky meant highest miles.

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

Thanks again to Randy and Colleen for the excellent hospitality. I don’t think we could have asked for a better setting.

I went on to College Station to catch a baseball game and meet some friends for a late dinner, so I took I-45 back. Only incident I had on the return home was getting stopped for 72 in a 65 just north of Fairfield. Luckily he let me off with just a warning.

Jarrett my camera is at home with your pictures on it...will email them to you tonight.

Thanks everyone for making a non-diesel feel so welcome.

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Drew
1993 300E 2.8 (Ol' Army)
Garnet Red/Palomino 62K
(and also this and this)

It was great meeting you Drew, had fun talking about R32s and Minis

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-justin

1987 300TD, 1987 300TD
2008 R32, 2000 Passat Wagon

I think JimmyL took W123 honors and Kip Foss got the "everything else" category with his W115 (I think).

Kip also got the Iron Butt award for driving in from Corpus!

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2009 VW TDI Jetta Sportwagon 172k miles (rear-ended harder than Elton John on 8/4/13. Total loss)

1991 Volvo 240 142k miles (T-boned by a stop sign runner. Total loss)

Likewise! Also enjoyed learning about the beer co-op. Sorry I had to bolt before you guys got back from the tour.

Definitely keep in touch, and keep me posted on the delivery progress. I had to wait a few months for the Mini a couple of years ago, so I can sympathize somewhat.

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Drew
1993 300E 2.8 (Ol' Army)
Garnet Red/Palomino 62K
(and also this and this)

In all honesty, the attendees made the GTG what it was! Colleen and I simply offered a venue. We sure had a lot of fun hosting the GTG and, Gawd willing, will do another in the fall.

At Colline des Baies, we have a simple goal: Our hope is at the end of the day, when folks head out through our gates to go home, they are talking about all the fun they had and, that they want to come back soon.

Hopefully, we accomplished that last weekend.

Thank you,
CW & RL

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First semi-annual Berry Hill Farm Benzomaniac GTG facts and figures:

Attendance:

23 Mercedes-Benz™

Notables attending:

Bodyart's Uber blu 126 (cream puff) and Henry Schuman's 124 wagon w/500,000+ miles (Henry won Funkiest Ride award).

Most unexpected attendee:

Palangi (Paul Lange)

Longest Drive award:

Kip Foss - drove from Corpus

Best 126 chassis:

Tarbe's Millie...only 83k miles.

Shell, in your wildest dreams, did you ever think your beautiful car could get upstaged? Both Shell's and Tarbe's cars were immaculate!!!

Best 123 chassis:

I cannot remember and I left my notes at home

Best "other" chassis:

I cannot remember this, was it Kip?, I left my notes at home

Other stuff:

• 1/750 of the entire US population of diesel 124 wagons was present (Henry and Justin's wagons)
• Rashakor's 116 DOES look really good with painted-put Bundts

I apologize to Kevin (Fuzzball) and the last couple of folks that I'd promised a tour of the place. I know you waited and it was getting cold...I'll make up for it next time. Tours always take me longer than I plan for.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

represent

Did we ever get a tally on the cummalative diesel driven miles off all the odometers? 2MM? It has to be a pretty big number.

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~shell
As of 2/2010:
2001 CLK55 0o\=*=/o0
13.6 @ 106mph
10K mi
1984 300SD
260K mi and going and going...
97 S600
46K miles
1991 Sentra SE-R (extremely dorked with)
www.se-r.net

Randy, don't worry about the tour, I got to say goodbye to Colleen before I left and she invited me to come out again, so no harm, no foul.

My girls were coming in from visiting the outlaws in Midland, so I wanted to arrive home when they did...as it turned out, I beat them. When I left, they were about 5 miles from rr620 on 71. I beat them by 10 minutes....what a difference all those traffic lights on 620 make!

I can't wait for the next one.

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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Unfortunately, not everyone heard (or chose not to disclose that we were trying to get mileage.

On the south end, my wagon (280,000), my SDL (245,000) and Henry's wagger (580,000) totaled +1meg.

Take an average of 225,000 and you'd have over 5 million accumulated miles in that group.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.