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Bob Waling and John Morelli who visited us two years ago,
stopped to visit at the end of a month long trip from Michigan
on their way to Arizona for the winter.
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Had a nice visit with a family traveling from Plano, TX to
Albuquerque on vacation.
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A group of Prowler owners were traveling from Northern California,
through Arizona and upto Northern New Mexico.
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We had a very nice visit with Robert and Anne Boren. They
have retired in New Zealand and were back in the states to visit
some old friends and acquaintances. Robert, whom we met in Colorado
at a couple of M-B events in 1999, and Anne were on their way
to Arizona to visit some friends and stopped in to visit us and
to see, first hand, our collection of vehicles.
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We met Bo Boring while he was in town to do some pinstriping
and painting on a friend's trailer. After watching him work for
a little while, we asked if he would drop over to our house to
see if he might do something on our Prowler. To make a long story
short, he in fact did some pinstriping on our Prowler and also
spent the next three nights at our house. Bo travels (with his
trusted friend Harley J. Davidson) all over the US, pinstriping
motorcycle fenders, tanks and helmets, mostly at motorcycle shows
but will do other things such as cars, trailers, etc.
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Bob Waling must have enjoyed his visit the previous year
because he came back, but this time he was driving his new Almond
PT Cruiser. Bob was caravaning with John Morelli who also was
going to be living in Arizona, just a few blocks from Bob, for
the winter. Since John is a Harley enthusiast we made a visit
to Barnett's H-D showroom in Las Cruces. Also, Bob and John got
to take a ride around the block in the Prowler. They were off
to AZ the next morning after spending the night.
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Upon coming home from being out of town for the day we found
a distress call on our answering machine. Bill Brandt (president
of the MBCA Scramento Section) was traveling from Sacramento,
CA to Dallas, TX when he had some car trouble near Las Cruces,
NM. He needed help in finding a repair shop that would take care
of the 380SL he was driving. After playing some phone tag, Bill
finally got a hold of us through the kind folks at MBCA NBO.
After spending the night at our place, the next day we were able
to get the 380SL to a M-B mechanic and Bill was on his way right
after lunch.
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David Cummings, Operations Manager and Acting Executive Director
for Mercedes-Benz Club of America stopped in for a visit and
spent the weekend. David also owns a Mercedes-Benz and has had
several over the years, but he is also a car enthusiast so he
had to test drive our newest vehicles. We also attended the monthly
EAA breakfast at the Las Cruces Airport. David enjoyed seeing
the many planes that were there but especially the P51 belonging
to Colonel Frank Borman, in addition he also got to meet Col.
Borman.
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Bob Waling was traveling from Michigan to Arizona and stopped
in to visit and spent the night. Bob is considering purchasing
a PT Cruiser so we gave him a ride in the PT. He also drove one
of our SLs and rode in the 300E. Bob really liked the MBs but
he still wants a PT Cruiser. At the time he visited there was
a spaghetti dinner for the volunteers for the annual AirFare
at the Las Cruces Airport. We helped to set up the tables and
then we all enjoyed the dinner. Bob also surprised us with a
couple of PT Cruiser models.
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Jyrki Pulkkinen from Ann Arbor, MI recently purchased a 1972
350SL in San Diego, CA. While traveling back home with fellow
car enthusiast and second driver Roy Margenau, they spent the
night at our home. We had a very nice visit, showed them our
garages and they even drove all our cars. Roy, who is a Jaguar
owner, conceded that the SL500 was a terrific car and he could
even consider making the switch to an SL.
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