The smoke cleared up after 2 hours (or 200 miles, not sure which came first... ) I filled up about 10 miles into the trip, and got 420 miles on the first tank, 1/4 of which was year-old (or more) diesel and I filled up before I hit the reserve. Those were lead-footed highway miles, so I'll see how the highway treats it at 80-85 instead of 90-95. I found a guy that can rebuild my seat who is next door to a tint specialist (the tint is pretty bad on this beast: you can see in but not out) who is next door to an independant Benz/BMW shop that gave me a good quote on the lower ball joints and thrust bearings. One stop shopping! I cover 6 states with work, and average 1000 miles a week. I want to turn this into my road car so they will have a couple weeks to work on it before I get back off the road. Hopefully to a brand new car!

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71 VW Westy Camper (Lola gets new paint this fall)
72 VW Karmann-Ghia (codename Firestarter) retired
87 Mercedes 300 SDL (so it begins) Blue/Tan 144k
89 Honda Civic Hatch (now my bro's daily driver) 297K
98 Nissan Maxima SE (my home and office) 189K

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