Yeah ... not pretty.

https://www.tiktok.com/@sbcsdime210/video/6938090790384143622?sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6930981664315917830&is_from_webapp=v3&is_copy_url=0

I have never seen an engine that is virtually destroyed like this.

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/rver-flat-tows-jeep-wrangler-213400829.html

This is a picture taken from the bottom looking up. You can see the valves in the cylinder. Ouch!

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Wow!

Bet they don't do that again!

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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.

last few miles pulled easy

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

Ha!

My dad flat-towed his 356 from Ohio to GA a long time ago. The family was moving.
when we got to GA, we found that the 356 was in 4th gear the whole time.


The engine was intact, but if it didn't need a rebuild before, it sure needed one then. (car had some rust, and was that one project that many dads have, but never quite get to...)

This was in the 90's, before the 'air cooled Porsche' bubble started growing...



-Not going to inherit a 356

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2009 Kia Sedona
2009 Honda Odyssey EX-L
12006 Jetta Pumpe Duse
(insert Mercedes here)

Husband, Father, sometimes friend =)

My dad once towed our Mercury station wagon behind the school bus he'd made into an RV. He disconnected the drive shaft at the differential. We were moving and the wagon was crammed with our clothes. Plus he didn't want to sell it. It had an automatic, I gather that towing even in neutral is not a good idea.

Not checking the gear shift before taking off would perhaps be at the opposite end of that sort of caution.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

It is easy to do.

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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 have made some incredibly boneheaded mistakes myself, I hate to admit.

There are a few I don’t even want to talk about, they were so stupid.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Wow, that's amazing .

The ticktok link didn't work for me, does one have to be a member ? .

One of my Foster boys is there .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Here is a Youtube link.

https://youtu.be/b3OGOfanOhc

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

WOW ~ it's not often I see a broken crankshaft .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

This reminds me of something we saw on SB 101 below King City, California. Someone had a freshly restored canary yellow 1954 Ford sedan on a dolly with the rear wheels down.

Gasoline vapor was chuffing out of the exhaust pipe, and this car was being towed about 50-55 MPH.

I can only imagine what the cylinder walls looked like when the owner finally realized what he did.

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Nate Stanley
(Currently Benzless)
1985 F-250 6.9l 170K
2009 SCION XB 36.5K
2003 LS430 78K
2012 Kubota B 2320

When we go to Florida, I see people towing cars all the time. “Put that on a four wheel trailer, you idiot”, I scream to myself. (I don’t say it out loud because it annoys my wife and folks down South have guns.)

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All lives won’t matter until Black Lives Matter too. Along with Asian lives as well.

“No, I don’t take responsibility at all.” - Don Trump

“The buck stops here.” - Harry Truman

Black Votes Matter.

Just this morning my sister told me they have auto trains that go from Wa. D.C. to Fla., I never knew .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Do you ride in your car or a railroad car?

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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.