Getting lots of looks this spring
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Getting lots of looks this spring
I feel like I am being noticed more than ever this spring. My car looks the same as always, but I wonder if maybe my classic looking W124 stands out a bit more now that other cars are getting more and more modern. The first two photos are from this morning and early this afternoon parked at work, respectively. The close-up is from the weekend wash in my driveway.
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Your car is definitely cool!!! I guess my car is cool too, but to me my car seems more gorgeous than cool. It isn’t a girlie car at all. In fact I think my car has always had a masculine persona, but it is just very pretty too. For some reason recently it has been even prettier and gleams like a beautiful gem in the early morning spring sun.
I really do think it has something to do with the classic look of our W124 cars, as they were designed so many years ago, and the fact that my aging car has been so well maintained. It may also just be spring fever here in Pennsylvania. It just feels so good to have the weather change. Everyone is getting back outside and everyone is looking around at everything from the flowers blooming to my shiny car. I am happy because I get to cruise around in my clean car with my windows down again.
I really do think it has something to do with the classic look of our W124 cars, as they were designed so many years ago, and the fact that my aging car has been so well maintained. It may also just be spring fever here in Pennsylvania. It just feels so good to have the weather change. Everyone is getting back outside and everyone is looking around at everything from the flowers blooming to my shiny car. I am happy because I get to cruise around in my clean car with my windows down again.
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yeah, with wheels like that and a stance like that, who WOULDN'T Jaw drop a lil? 
that being said, what is your spring/strut combo and how much harsher is the ride? the wifey want's a comfortable drop, does one exist?
that being said, what is your spring/strut combo and how much harsher is the ride? the wifey want's a comfortable drop, does one exist?
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I feel like I am being noticed more than ever this spring. My car looks the same as always, but I wonder if maybe my classic looking W124 stands out a bit more now that other cars are getting more and more modern. The first two photos are from this morning and early this afternoon parked at work, respectively. The close-up is from the weekend wash in my driveway.
I love it, I love it not, I love it.......
The pendulum swings...
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Your car and the scenery are both beautiful. 
Glad to see you getting back together with your ex! Spring has definitely come to PA. My grass is still somewhat brown. I understand how you feel in the spring when everything starts coming to life again. In 10 days I'll be on a one-way flight to St. Croix where it's always summer so I won't have to deal with the winter dreariness in the Midwest anymore. There is at least one W124 on the island. Maybe I'll buy it! Since there's no MB dealer there and an older couple owns it, they'd probably sell it for a song. 
Glad to see you getting back together with your ex! Spring has definitely come to PA. My grass is still somewhat brown. I understand how you feel in the spring when everything starts coming to life again. In 10 days I'll be on a one-way flight to St. Croix where it's always summer so I won't have to deal with the winter dreariness in the Midwest anymore. There is at least one W124 on the island. Maybe I'll buy it! Since there's no MB dealer there and an older couple owns it, they'd probably sell it for a song.
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I think you are showing off the camera now. 
Those are some really great shots and really do speak to the outstanding aesthetics of these cars...amazing that they still turn this many guys on well over a decade after the last ones rolled out of production.
Those are some really great shots and really do speak to the outstanding aesthetics of these cars...amazing that they still turn this many guys on well over a decade after the last ones rolled out of production.
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Thanks you guys for not flaming me.
We do seem to be patching things up, which is a good thing.
Even though it is beautiful in PA this time of year, I would love to get away too. I am dreaming of Italy, or maybe at least England, but the devalued dollar isn’t making it any easier for me to pull the trigger and actually schedule the trip. I hope you have a great vacation!
The setting for my home is very nice, but the house is really just a rather normal plastic house. It certainly isn’t a castle with a new M3 parked outside, like FiFth_StreetZ. Plus, as I think you pointed out in the past, I am a very old dude compared to many of you. When you guys are as old as me, I’m sure you will have nicer cars and nicer homes.
I am definitely not a great photographer with a real artistic eye, but these new little digital cameras really do take pretty good point and shoot shots. I’m sure an artist with a better camera, like Zorro, could do a much better job capturing the beauty of my car and the beauty of spring in PA.
I am proud of the way I have taken care of the car. Anyone can go out an buy or lease a good looking new car, but there is a different pride of ownership that comes from maintaining a car over a long period of time. It really does become a kind of relationship.
The setting for my home is very nice, but the house is really just a rather normal plastic house. It certainly isn’t a castle with a new M3 parked outside, like FiFth_StreetZ. Plus, as I think you pointed out in the past, I am a very old dude compared to many of you. When you guys are as old as me, I’m sure you will have nicer cars and nicer homes.
I am proud of the way I have taken care of the car. Anyone can go out an buy or lease a good looking new car, but there is a different pride of ownership that comes from maintaining a car over a long period of time. It really does become a kind of relationship.
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Even though it is beautiful in PA this time of year, I would love to get away too. I am dreaming of Italy, or maybe at least England, but the devalued dollar isn’t making it any easier for me to pull the trigger and actually schedule the trip. I hope you have a great vacation!
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If you get caught drinking and driving they take your drink, not your keys. Unfortunately, bud is also cheap easy to come by, and I don't mean the beer.
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St. Croix- US Virgin Islands. Actually gas is only about 20 cents a gallon cheaper but it helps. No local income taxes, no sales tax, low property and vehicle tax, and very good cheap Rum (Cruzan, locally produced) and cheap cigarettes. If you get caught drinking and driving they take your drink, not your keys.
Unfortunately, bud is also cheap easy to come by, and I don't mean the beer.
If you get caught drinking and driving they take your drink, not your keys. Unfortunately, bud is also cheap easy to come by, and I don't mean the beer.
Drinking...smoking...
...cheap gas prices...God!Soooo it looks as if I'll be seeing you there man!
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