1980 450SEL for sale

[peterq]

Looks nice, chintzy curtains and all...

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[s class]

What colour is that?  I would say its darker than 735 Astral, but I wonder if its anthracite?  I fancy that colour for when I respray my 280SE. 

[Big_Richard]

interesting, so japan got the automatic climate control as well, not just the USA.

learn something new every day!

that car is phenomenal it belongs in a museum, not on the road.

[Papalangi]

That's exactly what my interior would look like if it had not spent 30 years outside in Dallas Texas.

Now it looks like JC Whitney seat covers on sad old horse hair and a warped dash cap.

Michael

[Big_Richard]

That's exactly what my interior would look like if it had not spent 30 years outside in Dallas Texas.

Now it looks like JC Whitney seat covers on sad old horse hair and a warped dash cap.

Michael

Tell me Papalangi, Is "King of the Hill" a fairly accurate representation of life in Texas ? Its one of my favourite shows and I'd love to visit the states one day, It cracks me up every time i watch it

sounds like you get the kind of weather we get in the centre of western Australia, just baking hot sun every day, never any rain and the earth looks like the surface of mars - or is it not that bad ?

[Papalangi]

That's exactly what my interior would look like if it had not spent 30 years outside in Dallas Texas.

Now it looks like JC Whitney seat covers on sad old horse hair and a warped dash cap.

Michael

Tell me Papalangi, Is "King of the Hill" a fairly accurate representation of life in Texas ? Its one of my favourite shows and I'd love to visit the states one day, It cracks me up every time i watch it

sounds like you get the kind of weather we get in the centre of western Australia, just baking hot sun every day, never any rain and the earth looks like the surface of mars - or is it not that bad ?

I've only been in Texas for 10 or 12 hours but a large part of it is probably much like "King of the Hill", as is much of rural America.

Some areas can be stinking hot but it has snowed in Texas.  There are vast stretches of nothing and there's an old wives tale of people tying the steering wheel down and setting the cruise control to 80 or 90.  It's raining in Dallas right now and 71F.

I'm about 20 miles south of Seattle Washington.  Here, it is either raining, about to rain or has just rained.  Except when it's raining.  the joke goes, What do you do in the summer?  If it comes in the afternoon, we play softball and if it comes in the evening, we have a picnic.

Now if I could just get a couple seasons of Diplomatic Immunity I'd be a happy camper.

Michael

[wbrian63]

I've lived in Houston (south-east Texas) all my 46 years. My father was born here in 1937. My grandfather came here as a small boy in the 20's.

King of the Hill is a parody of what life in Texas is like. Every parody has some truth in it, but much is exaggerated.

What is undenaible is the climate. Here in Houston, we have 10 months of summer and 2 months of lousy water skiing. I've seen winters where we only get 1 or 2 days of sub 32f temps, and then only during the overnight hours. This summer has been exceptionally hot, at least in terms of when the door to the blast furnace was opened. Usually don't get really "hot" weather until July, and then it's with you well into September. This year, hot weather was with us in early June, with days-upon-days of high 90's actual temps, with heat-index values well into the 100's. (Heat-index is for hot weather what the wind-chill factor is for cold weather - takes into account humidity to give you "how hot it feels").

Parts of central and west Texas routinely see 100+ temps for days and days during the summer. Their weather is dry, and central Texas has been experiencing a drought during the last few years. Houston does get regular doses of rain, average rainfall is about 50 inches. Contrast that with El Paso (as far West in Texas as you can go without going into New Mexico), or Lubbock (north central), which see less than 20 inches per year.

In general, don't buy cars that have lived on the Gulf Coast (Galveston, Corpus Christi, Freeport, etc.), because of the salt spray. Cars that have lived elsewhere in the state will be largely rust-free if reasonably cared for, but the interiors will be rubbish if the car lived outside very much at all.