It's Monday, it's rainy outside in the Metro DC Area and time for alittle dream. What is your dream retirement? Mine- that I can retire someday to Savannah, GA and buy a little house with a va-ran-dah where I can sit and sip mint julips as the sun goes down

Barbados, with an ocean view.

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Chris
2007 E550 4Matic - 61,000 Km - Iridium Silver, black leather, Sport package, Premium 2 package
2007 GL450 4Matic - 62,000 Km - Obsidian Black Metallic, black leather, all options
1998 E430 - sold
1989 300E - 333,000 Km - sold
1977 280E - sold
1971 250 - retired

"And a frign hat. They gave me a hat at the annual benefits meeting. I said. how does this benefit me. I dont have anything from the company.. So they gave me a hat." - TheDon

Running a junk shop on a little island somewhere. I'd find and reclaim old metal knick-knacks at my leisure, refinish/paint them, and sell them to junk-starved tourists whom I will never see again.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

A good friend who lives in Savannah with a front porch, mint juleps, and a cigar to smoke while watching the sun go down.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

to keep working but only on the ones i want to do.

and have enough $ to take off for a week four or five times a year or a month here and there to travel.

and have at least one interesting car to putter with.

tom w

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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.

Hmm I am seeing a large Swan, and many many miles of open ocean. Maybe sailing a 57, to nowhere in particular. Its a big world, lots of ocean...

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I agree. If I won the lottery I would continue working as Tom describes, travel a bit, and putter with a car, maybe two.
regards,
Mark

Retire to some remote island in the South Pacific. Maintain a small condo back in the State side so once in a while I will just drop back in.

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95 R129
04 Infiniti G35.5 BS
10 X204

Norway.

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The thought of retiring makes me want to vomit...I saw too many of my grandpa's and dad's friends retire and promptly drop dead within 12-18 months...I'd rather die in the saddle, as it were.

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2002 Ford ZX2
2 x 2013 Honda Civics

I have given no thought to retirement - I know that this is wrong on a couple levels, but Its tough for me to imagine...I mean...assuming that I have enough money to survive (kinda working on that...a little...) I have too many interests to just deicde "Oh, I'll mess with cars" or "Oh, I'll ride my goldwing across up to Alaska". "I'll lead my church to greater membership and influence" - I can't imagine it being that simple.

I'm kinda jealous of you if you know what you want to do when you retire.

I'm jealous of you if you know what you want to do (with your life) right now =)

-John

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

Husband, Father, sometimes friend =)

To have enough money to keep building things and enough time not to have to rush through it.

Jorg

I'll be glad when I can retire. I have no real desire to quit working. I'd just love to have the luxury of only doing work I want to do.

And spending time with the people I love, seeing places I haven't seen before, trying things I've never done before, . . . All before I'm too old to really enjoy it.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

will be in ................Costa Rica. Have a friend who did and he is living large.

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15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
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What he said.

I'd like to be able to split my time between restoring old cars and trucks (when I feel like it), doing a little automotive engineering work (when I feel like it), training horses and riders (have to learn a lot more to even start doing that one), and of course travelling and doing absolutely nothing. It'll probably never happen, but a guy can dream, can't he?

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.