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badali

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Grandpa's little helper
« on: June 19, 2015, 00:41:15 »
My grandson helping me wash the CLK 500.  2 years old and very interested in the cars.
Brad

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Re: Grandpa's little helper
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 02:01:13 »
You get so much more done with a little help!

Young people talk about living on the edge.  My idea of living on the edge is my 5 year old banging nails into boards 3 feet from my father in law's 911 I restored that he hasn't even seen yet.

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Re: Grandpa's little helper
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 11:53:42 »
That is a little scary.  Mine just had a wet cloth... 

Here is a picture of Andrew at the wheel of the 230 SL.  The picture was with the cell phone ...Kind of blurry...
Brad

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Re: Grandpa's little helper
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2015, 12:02:01 »
I was just reminded of a time I spent working in a shop on Long Island
did mechanical as well as body work.  We had a customer who had a really nice collection of Ferrari's and Porsche's but his daily driver was
A new Mercedes S500.  One day he brings the Mercedes to us and the paint is ruined.
There are spots everywhere where all the gloss was gone and scratches everywhere. I asked him if it had been vandalized
And he chuckled and said  " My children wash my cars with me all the time. They wanted to surprise me by washing my Mercedes but it had a lot of sap on it.  They went into the kitchen, got the scrubbing pad from the sink and scrubbed all the sap off the car. "