[MBZ] "Way, way wrong"

[Bob Rentfro]

In '81 I was between MBs and I had a '68 Bug winter-driving-in-Indiana-rust 
bucket. I lived about 250 miles from my grandparents in IL. My grandpappy 
was languishing in a hsp bed finally getting kicked in the booty by the 3-4 
packs of Pall Malls he hammered down for 60 or 70 years. My grandmother 
called me one night at 10 pm or so and said I better come home 'cause it 
looks like it's his time. I took off in the pouring rain and drove about 150 
miles when the gen light came on. I stopped without shutting the car down, 
lifted the lid and saw the belt was gone. I took off the rear deck lid, 
threw it in a snow drift, and continued driving really fast. The whole rest 
of the trip I could smell the engine and other things which were quite hot. 
I was not going to stop. As I put the clutch in to turn into hsp parking 
lot, the engine came to the most abrupt stop anything mechanical ever has 
done. I coasted into a parking space, got out in the rain and looked at my 
"engine" which looked like a steam plant gone bad.
The " Deutsche Automobilgötter" were with me that night.

Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 152K
Litchfield Park, AZ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert M Doran" <ahayco at juno.com>
To: <Mercedes at striplin.net>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] "Way, way wrong"


> Brings to mind an old '57 English Ford I had when I was in high school.
> Tie-rod end broke as I was stopping for a light. Poor little thing
> couldn't decide which way to turn. Lucky for me I guess a big tree got in
> the way before somebody else got hurt.
>
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