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Don Drabik, Bruce Adams, Bill Johnson, Mark Richey, Jim
Villers, Bill Nelson, Tom Hamilton, Maryalice Ritzmann, Waltraud
and Guenther Baeuerle
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Tom Hamilton's
race car in front of the Museum.
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Guenther
Baeuerle with Bruce Adams in front of an Anniversary Poster.
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Three
cars in the courtyard.
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Most
f the assembled 190SLs on the courtyard in front of the museum.
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Bill
Lamb, Walt Puryear, Don Freese, Ron Rabon and Tom Hamilton. |
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| Leonard
Saxton in front of his "I Nobody" license plate.
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Mary
Jo Herrmann with her mother ????
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In
the parking lot while the heat was still bearable.
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| How
did we get just the reds and white in a mixed line?
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| Don
Freese's PVC air conditioning system.
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Walking
and talking.
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A
view from the Museum with the restoration shop in the background.
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| Tom
Hamilton introduces Guenther Baeuerle.
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auditorium in the Museum was excellent for presentations. |
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Guenther
Baeuerle was a very exciting speaker.
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Guenther talks about his time working Max Hoffman.
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M126 racing engine "might" have been installed in the
190SL. |
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| Lunch
was served amongst the cars inside the Museum. |
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The tune-up tech session using
David Hay's car was being taped.
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Bruce Adams with Don Drabik
with David's car.
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| David
Hay helping with the tune-up. |
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| Walt
Puryear helps as David and June look on anxiously. |
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The
man wit the tape "captured" the session.
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Things were not going according
to the "script".
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noises were heard from the internals. |
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| Meanwhile,
Jim Villers presented a brake seminar in the Museum Foyer. |
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"Brakes
are simple".
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Back at the hotel, still
"tuning" David's car.
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| Don
Drabik continues to try to locate the noise. |
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| June
Hay does not look relaxed. |
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P.S. David and June left Sunday morning and were able to drive
home to Richmond, VA without incident. The noise is still a mystery.
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)
Friday
was spent at the Kemp Auto Museum with technical presentations in
the morning and afternoon. Mercedes-Benz USA Sponsored the
the day and arranged for Gunter Baeuerle to be our featured
speaker. Gunter spoke about his experiences with Max
Hoffman, the "father" of the 190SL in New York City,
with his years on a 300SL race team in Texas and his experiences
working at Mercedes-Benz in Germany.