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Good Afternoon! The prodigal son is back! Quite serious respiratory problems kept me away from life in the past two weeks, but there are signs of improvement now. It´ll be a long way to full recovery, though. Good to see, that a number of our former regulars are "regulars" again. I hope to hear from Jeff soon, his absence makes me worrying about his well being again. There has been a lot of car talk here lately - at least I got the impression from just skimming over the last weeks´ contributions. I used to be car-crazy myself in younger days, but I am over that for a long time now. My firts car was a 1971 French Renault 6, a car which is probably unknown in the US. It was a terrible car, bad design and even worse built quality. I bought it cheap, but every cent I invested was a waste of money. It was not at all a reliable car, each day, some part would fall off. "Weld it while u drive it". After about a year, it failed the road test and met the wrecker. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Renault_6.jpg" alt=" " /> It was succeded by a 1971 VW Bug, which I dearly loved. It never failed on me and took me through my student years. The next one was a big step upward - a Mercedes 250 with a straight 6 engine. It was a gas hog and I was glad to have it off my back when I got my first company car - a Baby Benz Diesel. Later years saw a number of different Mercedes Benz or BMW company cars, mainly S-class Mercedes or 7 series BMW. In 2005, I decided to celebrate my midlife crisis by buying a two year old Porsche 911 Turbo S. It was fun to drive, but way too fast to feel comfortable. I never drove it faster than 175 mph and that only for a few minutes - I am no race car driver. I sold it after a year, making good money on the sale. Right now, my dream car is a Volkwagen up! - the smallest VW available. It´s quite nice and gives us a good service - what more to ask for? I have not been doing much in terms of model railroading lately. I therefore won´t be meeiting my goal of having all track laid by Christmas. I still have that loop of track put up, so I can run a train now and then. The loco I bought is now "chipped", with was done in less than 5 minutes. Just lifting the body off the loco, taking the DC plug out and insert the decoder - that was all I had to do. Programming the CV´s took much longer, but now the loco runs like a charm. I really like watching it accelerating slowly, simulating a heavy load. Time for my inhalations now - CU later! Have a happy one!
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