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Posted 6/2/2007 1:02 AM
spots350sl
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RE: Travelling for your G

UberXY - 6/1/2007 12:26 PM

I bought my G sight unseen from a guy about 200 miles away (I was in the hospital at the time). So I traveled by foot to the end of my driveway when the flatbed arrived with my G. I think I may go on record as having made the shortest trip to get one.


I think i win, we bought our G500 from our next door neighbor, our driveways actually touch (we are in the city)... ill measure in the AM
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Posted 6/2/2007 5:48 PM
Photoman



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Re: Travelling for your G

I also bought my 280GE unseen - hang on! I've bought all three Gs without laying an eye on them! The 280 was a flight then a 1000km drive and a 3 1/2 hour ferry crossing. I hadn't even seen a single picture of it....
Both of the 300s I bought over the net from Japan, only seeing blury photographs taken in an auction room. Ahh the risks we take fixing an addiction.

My next G I'm flying up to Japan

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Posted 6/2/2007 6:14 PM
mortinson
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RE: Travelling for your G

Well, not exactly travelling too much to get my Gs but doesn't mean that they haven't travelled....

I bought my first G, a 1984 300 GD SWB manual in January 1996 in Madrid while I was living in Benavente, a town 260 Kilometres north-west of the capital of Spain. I drove it back home worried about all that it needed to be done, but happy nonetheless to finally own a G. In September 1998, we moved to the UK and the G was brought in the trailer of the lorry where all our belongings travelled. I sold that G in October 2003 to a Romanian living in Ireland who planned to take the KHD car to his hometown in Transilvania.

In the meantime, I bought my current G -a 1991 G300D SWB manual- in January 2003 in England, from an American guy who has bought the car in Germany six months before that with the intention of taking the car with him in a move to Eastern Europe. That move never materialised and the guy was sent by his company to Australia instead, automatically making his LHD G surplus to requirements. We then moved back to Spain in September 2005 and the G was again loaded in a lorry together with all our stuff to start a new life in sunny Spain, far away from the wet winters of Northern Europe.

I intend to keep this one for many years to come...
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Posted 6/2/2007 9:10 PM
clavos
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RE: Travelling for your G

I was not against traveling for a G. I pulled a trailer to Clevand to get my 16V. My G lterally fell into my lap. It was towed in to the Dealer I work for while I was at lunch one day. My boss called me on the nextel and said I have to see what just rolled in. I owned it less than 24 hrs. later.
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Posted 6/3/2007 11:28 AM
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Re: Travelling for your G

Some great stories here. Seems also to be a lot of brave souls buying Gs not only sight unseen for their purchase but even without having ever seen a G in the first place!

Yup what we do for our addiction....
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Posted 6/3/2007 4:12 PM
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All are completeley mad, as am I.
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Posted 6/6/2007 1:40 AM
T.Schuhe
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RE: Travelling for your G

Harald,

I suspect that I have those very tires in my basement that took you to the top of that hill. A great story.

Best wishes,

Tom

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