Question?

How do several MercedesShop members who have no contact information or visual identification find each other in another city?

Answer.

Hope like heck they drove up in an MB!

Such was the case for davidmash, but not for iwrock. Oh well, plan B is look for the guys with the blank stares and "I'm lost" kinda expression.

I showed up first at Genghis and got a table. Some time later, I noticed a lone gent pacing in front of the storefront for 10 minutes or so, I concluded that he must be one of us! So I met davidmash.

Later, iwrock and friend entered the building. It was getting late by then, and few customers were around, so we assumed they were looking for us.

No AdvisorGuy though (hope you feel better)...but davidmash had a bowl for you!

Here we are in the restaurant.



Clockwise from left: davidmash, iwrock and friend, and yours truly.




Sorry for pic quality...it was around 11PM by this time, so it's hard to take in the looks of the exceptional rides that graced the parking lot.






Despite this being an MB gathering, iwrock friend's 06 BMW Dinan was the center of attention...again, the pics do no justice!





Carbon fiber hood, anthracite rims, massively wide tires, performance exhaust, and a whole host of other goodies!





I guess they financed their trip by fencing stolen auto parts...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Up next...davidmash's sweet 190E!





His car sports the anthracite EVO rims, body kit, tinted windows, and euro headlights to complete the look:






He itemized a "laundry list" of items replaced over the years (needed or not), that would almost put the car in an NOS category...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

...and finally, my daily driver.




The old W124 is plagued with an occasional engine miss issue, but the rear-firing subwoofer kept me moving along. I demo'ed the sound system later on using my daughter's iPod selections...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Here's the group having an impromptu "swap meet"...I think about 12 items will be moved about via PMs later today!



iwrock's friend wasn't too interested in MB parts...especially since he has a nice stock of Bimmer goodies in the back seat!!!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Last pic before us married folks get asked to return home...




It was great meeting up with some new friends and putting faces with names!

Thanks to all who attended. Again, sorry that AdvisorGuy couldn't be with us.

Oh well, if anyone else comes down to Dallas and finds it boring, us locals can help with an itinerary, and perhaps another quickly-formed GTG.

After all, you can only go to Fry's so many times in one week!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Lovebugs are hell on a Beemer.

Nice looking cars. Nice looking people. Have a beer on me!

B

Looks like you had fun.


It will be fun coming back to CA in that BMW, there will be places you can probe the limits of its top speed


I highly recommend cleaning the wheels exhaust tips, and the bugs off the windshield mirror backs and bumper each time you put gas in.

I just completed an over 2k road trip and this worked very well as did the GARMIN nuvi GPS I bought, programmed and put in, before leaving Las Vegas yesterday

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

That's great! I love little imprompteau get-togethers like that. If anyone is ever on my end of the country let me know.

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-Evan


Benz Fleet:
1968 UNIMOG 404.114
1998 E300
2008 E63


Non-Benz Fleet:
1992 Aerostar
1993 MR2
2000 F250

Sorry guys.. As the day wore on, my head was feeling like I was having a cranial hemorrhage... Probably from in & out of the heat & a/c all day. My car would have looked like **** next to those machines anyway.. lol. I'll make the next one.

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Sharing my partner's 2012 Forte 5dr SX til I find my next 123 or 126..
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Do I miss being a service advisor ???

Nice. and super nice 190 man! Funny, I always pictured G with an afro!

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

It's a "laugh"-fro...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

And I was gonna drive the ML320 CDI we took in on a trade too... lol

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Sharing my partner's 2012 Forte 5dr SX til I find my next 123 or 126..
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Do I miss being a service advisor ???

Nice GTG, good cars and the restuarant looked good.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

The upper speed range has already been explored according to anonymous sources. The source said that 143 is quite exciting and the car is stable as a rock. How ever road conditions and courage prevented him from going faster.

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

LOL. Indeed.



Its was awesome meeting davidmash as well as G-Benz. They are both super funny in real life. I dont think we stopped laughing the whole time we were having dinner.


G and davidmash, figure out what you guys need, and I will dig it out of long term storage.


Oh yes, and us young guys felt real young when we didnt know some of the stuff you were talking about.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.