I wasn’t old enough to really even remember them, but nonetheless I never quite forgave my parents for replacing these with a pair of Pintos.

Maybe, but seeing a car without being ablento judge its distance and speed dye to lack of reference is borderline useless....

Like I said elsewhere, I have problems with my spatial sense. I’m horrible a guessing/judging distances, and geometery in jr high was a nightmare.

I have bad spatial sense visually. My brain & eyeballs just don’t quite function as intended, so yes, I set my (side) mirrors so I have a small sliver of my own car showing just for reference. I’ve tried not setting them that way, but it just confuses my brain. That said, I have an older car with unusual different…

I don’t blame people for bad mirror alignment; I blame them for not turning their head and looking.

My first car had blind spots that could (and did) hide a semi...... But I learned this magical method to handle them that apparently eludes other drivers.

No no no no no no no...... Dammit.

That’s what I thought, but I’ve got other more critical maintenance/work I need to spend money on first.

You’re the one who turned rude and insulting first. If you don’t know and don’t care in the first place, then why did you comment in the first place unless you were trying to shit all over the comments and insult everyone who had a positive opinion? Then you followed up by pulling out the borderline slur of ‘Kraut’…

So you admit to neither knowing or caring anything about the situation at hand, but of course anything you say about it is true and correct. Gotcha.

Er, you do know the area around Fredricksburg, TX, is one of the most strongly ethnic German areas in the US, right? It even has its own German dialect.

This picture is a bit old, but here’s my baby, my Dad’s 1988 260E.

Current 124 sedan owner here. I wouldn’t call parts cheap, but they’re not too bad. I’m going to try to do more work myself, but I have been taking it to a local dealer for service in recent years (due to the specialty shops I tried managing to mess up 2 systems for every one the fix.) Pricewise, it’s expensive, but…

I’d be all over that like a cheap suit in 5 seconds flat, but I’m biased-very biased. And especially now, since my own beloved W124 has been out of commission since January. The mileage is decent for the age, it’s a two-owner car with what sounds like good records, and the overall condition looks and sounds like…

Fun historical fact: the modern-day Lufthansa grew out of the orinial national zepplin service.

One more thing: the Apollo/Saturn V program used *both* Metric and Imperial/US standard units.

Fair enough. I’m not up to date on the most recent studies. My knowledge is probably slightly dated, and I was thinking in general terms.

Hate to break it to you, but even All-American Boeing aircraft are designed, built, and operate using the metric system, and have for a while now.

Same root source:

William Boeing was the child of an Austrian mother and a German family (The original spelling was ‘Böing’.)