Yeah Big Bear is awesome, Idlewild gets a little boring because it's suuuuch a small town. Plus they pay out the a** for Diesel and Gasoline up there

You have to admit though, nothing beats the drive from El Paso to San Antonio... 500 miles of nothing

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76 MG Midget
78 Datsun 280Z
86 Peugeot 505
01 Subaru Outback

“Owning a car is like owning a dog. Every now and then, it craps on the carpet — but it’s still your dog.” - Jeremy Clarkson

I am pretty sure thats why we are where we are today. And its only going to get worse. Load up on ammunition and build a bomb shelter!

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1995 E300 Weiss
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#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
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Yes, I did Big Sur- then came back down to LA next morning I made it east-got lost taking a deceptive offramp in east LA, then headed thru the hot-Dusty inland empire-To Banning ,hooked the right up the mountain--Into a Cloudburst as I was entering the forrest ,drenching everything,
Thats why I want to live in idlewilde---lil bitty, not the fuel prices--I only want a few large sushi bars to move in so's I can snag their oil! Just let's hope Obamha doesn't use the ususal wildfire's on So Cal as an excuse to let a bunch of booger eatin loggers come down from Oregon again and start "lollypoppin" the beautiful trees again--Like the Retarded Monkey did around 04=05. That is one of my favorite patches of forest--and the trails around there, if you are robust enough to make it to the top of one of those peaks-You can see the channel islands 140 miles away--in the winter time when the air is most likely to be the clearest,i'm told by the locals.

See the channel islands from Idyllwild? Wow that must have been a once in a lifetime experience. Usually with the wind and the smog and any other atmospheric phenomena would prohibit such a view.

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1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

I really like Cherry/Apple valley. When it was snowing up in those mountains my friend and I drove on up there. It was beautiful with all the snow and it was really fun. Sucks when you're coming back down from Idlewild and you see lake Hemet and you think it would be fun checking it out. They don't allow you to go in it or anything, it's seriously a no fun zone lol

California is pretty cool sometimes. It has its positives living here Just can't stop thinking about my home away from home, Texas.. I even got a Texas flag sticker for my 220 when it comes out of repair this week hopefully Got to represent

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76 MG Midget
78 Datsun 280Z
86 Peugeot 505
01 Subaru Outback

“Owning a car is like owning a dog. Every now and then, it craps on the carpet — but it’s still your dog.” - Jeremy Clarkson

I Have been thru Apple Vally but I remember it as a small Mojave town like mine--Yucca Valley, right above you up 62 thru Morongo Pass. I guess its like Tehachepi, part of town are mountainous. Maybe we should swap pads for a few weeks--like if an ice storm hits here before the middle of March, LOL.

Ok it looks like there are actually TWO Idlewilds. I have never made it to the top of one of the surrounding peaks-the one on the east looks like two old mountain men in winter when they are snow covered.
Now I find out on Google there is a idlewild on the west side of Tahoe, Something else I gotta see in the countrys most beautiful (argueably) state.

Dude, Yucca Valley and Morongo valley are awesome, again, when my friend and I would do our monthly excursions to Arizona we would take the 62. So much fun Yucca and Morongo may not have that much but it's awesome. How about that big momma hill (morongo pass). My 240D was a sworn enemy of that hill

Are you in Texas right now? I was hoping to shoot over there in april and try to catch the bad weather season like rain and ice storms possibly hail . Love that stuff because we get so little of it here in the desert whenever it would start sprinkling I would hop in my car and go drive around in the rain

Also with the ice storms, wouldn't want to drive around in it, but would love to wake up and the car is covered in a sheet of ice, awesome.

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76 MG Midget
78 Datsun 280Z
86 Peugeot 505
01 Subaru Outback

“Owning a car is like owning a dog. Every now and then, it craps on the carpet — but it’s still your dog.” - Jeremy Clarkson

Great story!

Well , Because of me expressing my real sentiments about the booger eatin chicken eFFer and Cheny-who ran our country into a bucket of Sheite-for securety protocol I wont reveal exactly where I am, maybe somewhere in Texafornia, Mabe somewhere in Caluuroddo, because if i'm not careful-big Dick will have some goons find me and give me a good waterboarding-or at least insist I go hunting with him. Anyway the point is I'm a southwest kinda guy and I'm in it for the long haul. So what if my first and favorite benz's motor turned out to be a crackhead-i'll get another head for it, And your little 240 can make it up the big hill to Yucca Vally, and then drive thru and on the east side almost to Joshua tree when you come to lacontenta rd,hang a right and keep straight after it runs out of pavement. Follow it south tward the ridge about a mile-keep your eye to the left and you will see an entrance sign to Joshua Tree national park-you dont have to pay to enter here, follow the trail and sign to Eurika peak-about 4 miles up to the top,I drove the 85 300d up there and pitched a tent for the nite- You have a 360 view to all the mohave towns Yucca ,Joshua tree, 29 palms, and down below to the Cochella Vally-- and once again, it the air were clear enough you can see signal mountain in Mexico!

how about a fly there, buy the car, drive back, my grandpa fly to tennessee, bought a 86 300SDL, drove it back, but this was before i was born so thats all i know

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Current
2006 E320 CDI, 57K bought at 67K "Liesl"
1986 190E 2.3-16, 198K bought at 56K "Brigitta"
1987 300TD (Chuggin Along), 292K "Friedrich"
1995 E320 Wagon, 200K "Louisa"

Past
1987 300SDL, (sold) 125K, bought for 1$ "Kurt"

Yea-just dreamin bout California again, I won this car on ebay and flew out to burbank-Bob Hope. They wheeled the little rinky dink stairs out to the little jet and I stepped out into the smogg. I sholdered my backpack and made my way out to the depot across the street and found out I could not hookup with metrolink on a saturday So with the kind assistance of a kid in a dodge ram I made my way to the greyhound station in North Holleywood--out to Ventura and the old owner picked me up in his Wrecker and we cruised to Santa Paula. The 85 had a crunched DS quarter and we hooked the tow truck hook to the mangled metal near the taillight hole and started yanking--little progress til the benzes rear bumper got caught under the trucks rear bumper then the crunch pulled out considerably. I paid Tonys pretty wife Miriam off and started it up and took a short shake down run up thru Ojai and back down to Ventura. Taillight dilemas stopped me for the nite. next morning get er fixed and pulled out to the PCH and hiiked a left and headed north to Santa Barbara--Then San Louis Obispo-Morrow Bay...... From Morrow north is the coast EVERYONE should see sometime in their life. I had heard about the waterfall at Big Sur that falls straight into the ocean for 20 yrs and i went for it, i t was not near a big as i imagined--BUT 10 or so miles before getting to the pfiffer state park the Redwoods start and the waterfall falls into a Beautiful sheltered lagoon with fanfastic vistas nort and south,. I think the hot rod show moved from Paso Robles to Santa Maria will be a good excuse to take the 37 GMC streetrod pickup powered by the 85 turbo diesel on a road trip Back to Cali-even if the ratrod crowd cannot relate to such a strange engine choice!

The begining of this link is mostly right - just not the price. We have been driving our 1982 300SD, 260K or so, and 1984 300CD 230Kish since new (also a 1974 TR6 that we bought in Nov 1974). I don't remember what we paid for the new 300SD, but I still have the window sticker from the 300CD and it was $36,663. On the other hand, the TR6 was only $7,200 and today it's worth quite a bit more than that.

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1984 300CD 235K miles, Elvira, one owner
1987 300TD 180K miles
1974 TR6 78K miles Sarah Jane, one owner
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