Burrrrrr.........

Cars were in an unheated garage and started up just fine! The dogs didn't want to stay outside too long.

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

My nuts just shivered when I read that.

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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.

You have my sympathy for living with those temps, graplr....

Did you ever buy a home up there?

It gets cold in Minnesota?

Over the past week, a lot of the license plates tooling around town here are from Iowa, Michigan, Colorado . .

"Snowbirds" are legendary in Phoenix Tucson and Green Valley. Not Flagstaff and Pinetop though, so much, this time of year.

With the weather up here nowadays - in the Sierra mountains foothill country, to say the truth, I would not mind hopping down here in my Grand Marquis and joining them at the "early Bird" dinner specials. Me and my car would fit right in. lol

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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)

Yea we had Sub zero here on No. Il, they said -18 in Savananh (far N West IL).
Not -28, but -5 or -8.

My workshop garage is heated and well insulated, although I keep it at 55 when I'm not out there.
Main garage, between the house and workshop) well insulated but unheated stayed above freezing BARELY.
I need to work on the garage door to seal it better.
I hate the brackets the idiots used are riveted to the track, I have to drill out the rivets and put a small stovebolts in there. Then I can adjust it.
I spent yeasterday afternoon putting a new opener in, always fails on the coldest day, but I don't think it was weather related.
Fortunately I can heat it some from the workshop and did much of the work in the workshop.

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1990 500SL

I was always taught to respect my elders.
I don't have to respect too many people anymore.

If I ever wake up and see that temp I'll be on the next flight to somewhere warm!

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

This is why work on the enclave/man cave is going so slowly. It's usually about 12 in there. The building was never insulated. The 220 000 BTU heater is pretty much useless in there. That's why I am cordoning off one area and completing the insulation there first.

At one point, I may have a chance for a position in Alabama, and I just might take it a year or so before I retire from job #2. However, if I can get the set-up I want in Michigan, the weather woill not be a factor in too many of my activities.

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Invest in America: Buy a Congressman!

1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Moving these?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RLqLx1iYI

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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)

Actually I don't mind the temps so bad. I feel bad for my wife who grew up in the desert. I think I would feel weird not having cold weather and snow in the winter. It was nice and toasty in my E320 this morning though!

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

I live just outside of the suburbs. It was -26F in my area but in the Twin Cities themselves it was around -18-20F.

I was planning on getting my "garage" insulated this summer. Hopefully I will get it insulated this summer. My garage is an old barn, so insulating it will be intensive. I am planning on hiring someone to use the hard plastic blown insulation.

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

I was worried about the old TD -- cycled the glow plugs 3X and she started right up. I didn't plug 'er in overnight, nor do I have a heated garage.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

I hope this little chill moves out soon, I'm spending next week in chicago and the following week in cedar rapids.

Your driving the TD in the winter? I have not been on here for awhile. I knew you were mentioning selling your other cars and driving it.

It was a bit warmer in the city but I'm assuming you still drove out to work, so you hit the cooler temps. I guess it was already warming up by 6:30am when I left.

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2009 ML320 Bluetec
1985 300CD
1981 300TD

Past Mercedes
1979 300TD
1982 300TD
2000 E320 4Matic Wagon
1998 E430
1984 300SD
1980 300SD

Yeah, hate to do it.

I'm looking for something else - maybe a Land Cruiser, but haven't found the right one yet. I'm going to hang onto the wagon... it got be through grad school with no issues, so I feel obligated to keep it.

I'm done with school up north and now working for the same organization, but at their Twin Cities location, so it's an easy drive.

You guys really got the cold stuff! I think it was was ten degrees warmer in the city, something like -13F when I went to start her up.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder