Mark [N4OGL]
07-08-2003, 08:31 PM
Hi Gang,
I have finally seen the future - and it is a Silver Birch KB MM-S!
Seriously, a week ago (6/30) I finally saw my nearly completed Silver Birch MM at Kenny Brown's. By the time you read this, it should have been finished and sent over to Crossroads Lincoln-Mercury to sit in the showroom for a while. Sarge is taking me down there on the 16th to pick it up, after which I'll take a short road trip to Dayton, OH (business/possible interview) and South Bend, IN (Tire Rack, for some steel wheels to mount the OE tires on), and then home to Chicagoland. I can't wait!!
<i> Note to marauderhombre: I hope you plan to put wheel locks on it <b>immediately!!!</b></i>
But that's not the reason for this post.
Some of you know that I left my last job in May when I kicked over the wrong rock and discovered some illegal activities and left the company (no - I won't talk about it - wait for the newspaper). I have been frenetically job hunting. So when the holiday weekend rolled around, my wife and I decided to take a little time off and visit friends in Dayton before the Fourth, and then go to her parents' B&B in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania for a little R&R.
So - Monday we left Jim Thorpe, PA, on the way back to Chicagoland. We're driving along PA State Route 93, headed for I-80, somewhere between Hudsondale and Beaver Meadows (see: maps.yahoo.com). I'm driving and look down the road and see a black car on the side of the road, parked nose-to-the-street in an unpaved driveway. I'm thinking "looks like a Marauder" and immediately come to the conclusion that there never would be a Marauder out here. Too remote, to economically depressed, etc.
By the time we cover the next quarter mile, sure enough, it <b>is</b> a Marauder! Black and box-stock, and in GREAT condition.
AND IT HAS A "FOR SALE" SIGN ON IT.
So - if you are looking for that spare Marauder to stash in the garage, there may be a deal to be had.
Unfortunately, I couldn't stop and jot down the number, but if someone wants it I will try to persuade my outlaws to go and write it down. If any of you might have a clue whose car this is (or was), post a followup. For those of you who want to make a road trip, it's up off the Northeast Extension, or southeast of Hazelton & I-81 in PA. Probably real near Hudsondale, or just southeast on PA-93.
File this under...'How about That?!'
I have finally seen the future - and it is a Silver Birch KB MM-S!
Seriously, a week ago (6/30) I finally saw my nearly completed Silver Birch MM at Kenny Brown's. By the time you read this, it should have been finished and sent over to Crossroads Lincoln-Mercury to sit in the showroom for a while. Sarge is taking me down there on the 16th to pick it up, after which I'll take a short road trip to Dayton, OH (business/possible interview) and South Bend, IN (Tire Rack, for some steel wheels to mount the OE tires on), and then home to Chicagoland. I can't wait!!
<i> Note to marauderhombre: I hope you plan to put wheel locks on it <b>immediately!!!</b></i>
But that's not the reason for this post.
Some of you know that I left my last job in May when I kicked over the wrong rock and discovered some illegal activities and left the company (no - I won't talk about it - wait for the newspaper). I have been frenetically job hunting. So when the holiday weekend rolled around, my wife and I decided to take a little time off and visit friends in Dayton before the Fourth, and then go to her parents' B&B in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania for a little R&R.
So - Monday we left Jim Thorpe, PA, on the way back to Chicagoland. We're driving along PA State Route 93, headed for I-80, somewhere between Hudsondale and Beaver Meadows (see: maps.yahoo.com). I'm driving and look down the road and see a black car on the side of the road, parked nose-to-the-street in an unpaved driveway. I'm thinking "looks like a Marauder" and immediately come to the conclusion that there never would be a Marauder out here. Too remote, to economically depressed, etc.
By the time we cover the next quarter mile, sure enough, it <b>is</b> a Marauder! Black and box-stock, and in GREAT condition.
AND IT HAS A "FOR SALE" SIGN ON IT.
So - if you are looking for that spare Marauder to stash in the garage, there may be a deal to be had.
Unfortunately, I couldn't stop and jot down the number, but if someone wants it I will try to persuade my outlaws to go and write it down. If any of you might have a clue whose car this is (or was), post a followup. For those of you who want to make a road trip, it's up off the Northeast Extension, or southeast of Hazelton & I-81 in PA. Probably real near Hudsondale, or just southeast on PA-93.
File this under...'How about That?!'