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The Hot Rod Power Tour – Days 6 & 7

JMarwitz June 18, 2015 June 18, 2015

DAY 6 We awoke in Alabama and made a quick breakfast. Once everything was packed up and oil levels were topped off, we set out …

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The Hot Rod Power Tour – Days 4 & 5

JMarwitz June 16, 2015 June 18, 2015

DAY 4 First thing we did was stop for gas before heading for Memphis. By this time, I’d noticed my car was consuming oil at …

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The Hot Rod Power Tour – Days 2 & 3

JMarwitz June 15, 2015 June 15, 2015

Better late than never! We’ve just returned from the 2015 Hot Rod Power Tour last night, and I didn’t have as much time as I’d …

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The Hot Rod Power Tour – Day 1

JMarwitz June 6, 2015 June 6, 2015

It begins! The 2015 Hot Rod Power Tour kicked off in Madison today, with plenty of cars to see, vendors to get free stuff from, …

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The Running of the Benz – Part 4

JMarwitz June 2, 2015 June 2, 2015

Welcome to part 4 of my ongoing series explaining what work I’ve done on my 1970 Mercedes Benz 250. The Hot Rod Power Tour is …

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The Running of the Benz – Part 3

JMarwitz May 30, 2015 May 30, 2015

In this post I’ll be going over mounting new tires and installing new shocks! My old tires were pretty dry rotted and were getting to …

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The Running of the Benz – Part 2

JMarwitz May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015

Now that I’d fixed the valve cover gasket leak, I decided to make the cabin a nicer place to stay for the better part of …

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The Running of the Benz – Part 1

JMarwitz May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015

So now that you’ve seen the Benz running, you may be wondering how I got that far. Well, it’s been a bit of a mad …

It’s Alive!

JMarwitz May 24, 2015 July 18, 2015

I got the Mercedes up and running early yesterday. In the video you’ll see that the battery is bad, so I’ve got to jump the car every time I start it, and at this point I didn’t have any exhaust hooked up, so it’s pretty loud. I’m happy it runs at all, let alone better than it did before! We did get some exhaust welded up over at a friends place, expect to see a bit more on that soon. Check out the video and let me know what you think!