Two more hands were on the passenger side but I couldn't get a pic.

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68 280SL - 70 280SL - 70 300SEL 3.5 - 72 350SL - 72 280SEL 4.5 - 72 220 - 72 220D - 73 450SL - 84 230GE - 87 200TD - 90 190E 2.0 - 03 G500

Nissan GTR - Nissan Skyline GTS25T - Toyota GTFour - Rover Mini - Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 - Cadillac Eldorado - BMW E30 - BMW 135i

Gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes life sucks.

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08 R320 CDI current

Past
95 E420
87 300D Turbo 5spd
90 300TE
83 300SD
85 300TD
92 400E
85 190D

I know it sure would suck for someone else if that thing got loose and flew off because I nailed a mattress one nigiht not too long ago...put a pretty good dent in the oil pan on my 300D.

Around here, you see all kinds of furniture and fallout on the road and ROW.

I saw a guy tooling down the road near here last week with a 30-40hp tractor on an 18' pipe top trailer...and not a friggin' chain in sight. Make me kind glad I hit a mattress.

Poorly secured loads are one of my pet peeves.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

Its amazing to see some of the stuff that falls of on the road side.
I have scored a couple of full tool boxes & various bits of building materials.
I saw a wheel come of a truck in front of me & bounce clean over the top of my car !

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Grumpy Old Diesel Owners Club group

I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

I saw a tire rolling down the highway that was actually passing cars. I didn't see it come off any car but I figure that once it lost its load it must have picked up speed.

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1985 300D Turbo
"Evolution is God's way of giving upgrades" Francis Collins

So thats how they get all over the freeways !! Here I thought they were coming out of the back of pickups.

Wonder what happened to the guy whose job it was to sit on top ?


Never understood that reasoning:
30mph = 30mph wind
40mph = 40mph wind

4x8 mattress = How much surface area in the wind ??

1 hand can hold how much force ?? Better to use 2 hands !!

Same formula can be used on Kiddie pools !!!

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Experience : what you receive 3 seconds after you really needed it !!



86 300SDL 387,000? Motor committed suicide
81 300SD 214,000 "new" 132,000 motor
83 300SD 212,000 parts car
83 300SD 147,000

91 F700 5.9 cummins 5spd eaton 298,000
66 AMC rambler American 2dr auto 108,000
95 Chevy 3/4 ton auto 160,000
03 Toyota 4runner 180,000 wifes

safety first ?

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."