What part of the country do you live in and how would you describe the publics general mood there?

Optomistic, with a touch of discontent.

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1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

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West -- orgasmic.

Upper Midwest. I'd say reserved and future focused.

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The mood, where I live, is best reflected by the lyrics to the song "Dialogue" by the group Chicago:

Terry: Are you optimistic 'bout
the way things are going?

Peter: No, I never ever
think of it at all

Terry: Don't you ever worry
When you see what's going down?

Peter: No, I try to mind my business,
That is, no business at all

Terry: When it's time to function
As a feeling human being, will your
Bachelor of Arts help you get by?

Peter: I hope to study further,
A few more years or so. I also hope
To keep a steady high

Terry: Will you try to change
Things, use the power that you have,
The power of a million new ideas?

Peter: What is this power you
Speak of and this need for things to change?
I always thought
That everything was fine

Terry: Don't you feel repression just
Closing in around?

Peter: No, the campus here is very, very free

Terry: Does it make you angry
The way war is dragging on?

Peter: Well, I hope the president
Knows what he's into, I just don't know

Terry: Don't you ever see starvation
In the city where you live, all the
Needless hunger all the
Needless pain?

Peter: I haven't been there lately,
The country is so fine, but my
Neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause
They haven't got the time

Terry: Thank you for the talk,
You know you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes
Of things to come.

Peter: Well, if you had my
Outlook your feelings would be
Numb, you'd always think
That everything was fine

CHICAGO

And to answer your other question: When you drive an automatic transmission car do you left foot or right foot brake?

Always right foot for me. I worry that otherwise one day I could simultaneously step on the brake and gas pedals and oh boy, what an ugly sight that would be.

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Current Benzes

1989 300TE "Alice"
1990 300CE "Sam Spade"
1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007)
1998 E320 "Orson"
2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox"

Res non semper sunt quae esse videntur

My Gallery

Not in this weather!

SW Fla.
Schizophrenic
One minute we are happy to have the tourists and their dollars, the next we want to shoot them for driving 20 in a 45, or making a left hand turn from the right lane.

One minute we open the door for another of the countless folk with an oxygen tube attached to their head, the next we want to strangle them with it, as they once again forget to leave a tip/drive 20 in a 45, or making a left hand turn from the right lane.

One minute the mall stores are happy to have a influx of customers, the next they want to bludgeon the twit who bought merchandise from one store, but can't remember which one, and insists on returning it at another store (apparently up north, all the stores are one big happy family).

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

middle/south Georgia - redneck with some biker types thrown in

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Jim

Houston, Texas and we're tired.

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TXBill



Former owner of a few diesel MB cars
1998 Lexus ES 300 In Chicago We Trust

a lot of folks are worried around here.

lots of forclosures.

lots of layoffs.

high interest rates (not horridly high but higher), stagnant economy, lots of unsold houses and empty rentals.

and we're in a relatively protected economy with purdue here.

tom w

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I live on what was once picturesquely referred to as the "gold coast",which has long since lost it's original lustre.

Now,for the most part it is populated by folks who spend money they don't have to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like..............

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DC - most folks are too busy to think about what mood they're in.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

South Florida- Boca Raton, FL

Snooty - unfriendly - stuck up - and then there's the "locals".

I would love it if the sprinklers here stopped working for a month.

All these drainage-ditch-phonny-lake front-planned communiites would turn back into the desert they were meant to be.

What other region gets a World Series winning team & trades every single decent player & then 5 years later miraculously wins another World Series & can't get ANY support to build the poor team an actual Baseball Stadium????


Looooosers! Snooty SUV driving Cell phone glued to their heads lemmings!!!



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'87 924S
'81 280SEL

Sold ->

81 300SD -
93 300E w/ 3.2
85 300D-
79 300SD
82 300CD
83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."

Houston, Texas - Optimistic because the economy is kicking butt

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- Brian


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

Maryland - too cold right now to give a damn.

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95 R129
04 Infiniti G35.5 BS
10 X204

New Orleans: Exhausted. Complaining, but at the same time tossing around optimism ("Noo Awlins'll be back!") like deck officers on the Titanic. Busy blaming everybody but themselves for their Katrina losses. When you point out how something could be done better, you get a shrug: "Whatcha gonna do?"

Simply put, things here are circling the bowl.
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-- Paul W. (The Benzadmiral)
('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino