What's up Kuan!

There have been times I felt like this place was a massive waste of time, and it can be if you post too often (raises hand) but I do feel like it has genuine value. I miss some of the guys I met here who no longer come around, some of them might be deceased.

Carlton Hughes was a real character, I think he was getting on in years 10 years ago. I was sorry to see Botnst depart. I PMed him a few months later through Benzworld suggesting that I thought we could probably get his ban lifted if he was interested. He said something like "thanks all the same, but I've broken my addiction to the place." He said that he hadn't even come around to read what the scuttlebutt, the fallout from it was. I thought his thread title was a stupid joke, but I didn't think it was highly racist, more of a national thing.

Brian Carlton contacted me about five or six years ago when he was going to be working at SFO We went out and had dinner. Great guy. Years ago I had a meet up with the JimB and dee8go in SF. Jim drove us around in his 560S coupe, scared the holy hell out of us zooming down narrow streets. Also, Jim and I did a meet up with BenzLGB in Sacramento of all places. LGB And I had been feuding, we sort of buried the hatchet.

I also met up with Alec300SD who at one time had two very well-maintained and rebuilt 116 300SD specimens. The better one was totaled while parked on the street by some hit-and-run ass hole. He later told me that in the interest of marital bliss his MB hobby was slated for retirement. Pretty sure he has sold the other one by now. Or disposed of it anyway.

I miss some of the guys who used to come around, like H2O/Zeitgeist/Auspumpen, MedMech, KerryEdwards, John Doe and others whose names I can't recall. Sometimes on regurgitated years' old threads, I'll see names that remind me of who used to be here.

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