Fri 27 Jun 2008
A quick round-up of recent photographs:
- The Cure show in Charlotte from nowhere near the stage. I could see a lot better than these suggest.
- The Furniture Follies Parking Lot Sale from 6/21/08. It started raining just as we got there so I had to snap fast.
- An unbelievably sweet 1973 Mercedes for sale at a local thrift shop. Yes, a thrift shop. No one seemed to know how much the cars were going for so I have no idea how much they want. Unless I’m mistaken that’s a hard-top convertible. It has just shy of 300,000 miles.
Man, Mercedes can run for even longer than that - my friend Jane bought her Mercedes at 450,000 miles a few years back; I think the engine is rated for a million (!) miles.
Totally! I had a mechanic tell me recently that new - as in, the last ten years - Mercedes are not as reliable as they once were and that, in his opinion, they were no more reliable than any given American car. The conventional wisdom when I was a car-obsessed teenager, however, was that 60,000 to 100,000 miles was about when a Mercedes would be broken in and ready to rock.