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Jim B. · #14 09-29-2006, 06:18 PM

I'm NOT a wrench, but there is a car club in town, and I went to their meetings a few times, and got the cold shoulder when I told them what car I had.

These guys are into the street rod thing, the '32 Ford coupes, Corvettes, Pink 57 Tbirds, with braided hoses, that kind of stuff. I do like the muscle cars but that's about it. They are usally about 100 of them, all of them white guys in their 50s, 60s and 70s.

There are some old Diesels, 123 and 126 around, but look cosmetically sorry.
There is a guy trying to start a communal biodiesel fleet, on a sharing basis, and he has an old Ford F150 pickup and an old W123 Diesel so far.

I like the 123 diesels especially the 240 with a stick, and back in the early 80's tried to buy one, in those days lots of mint low milers were thick on the ground, but the banks wouldnt loan on anything that slid out the bottom of the blue book. I gave up and bought a Delta 88 Royale Olds, which never saw 1990 alive, was already literally in the junkyard. But I bet the 240 D would still be running though