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Automaker Daimler says it doesn’t know how Kim Jong Un got his luxury limos.
Fox News ^ | 4/27/2019 | Louis Casiano

Posted on 04/27/2019 6:20:45 AM PDT by Carriage Hill

German automaker Daimler said it has no idea how North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acquired its high-end limousines since it has no business relationship with the reclusive nation and U.N. sanctions prevent the sale of luxury goods to the North. Kim used Daimler-branded stretch limousines at his two summits with President Trump and at his recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The presence of Kim with Daimler limos confounded company officials, who cited the sanctions imposed on North Korea in order to pressure the country to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: daimler; fatboy; limo; maybach; veknownussingk
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To: grania

You’re right. Fat Boy is seemingly more “cozy” to Putin than to Trump. Putin grabs his ankles; Trump shows a hand or fist.


41 posted on 04/27/2019 12:09:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

190SK = 190SL


42 posted on 04/27/2019 12:10:16 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SuperLuminal

Not me, either. Someone spent a boatload of money so Fat Boy could ride in comfort and prestige, instead of his usual covered wagon.

Bark sandwich?


43 posted on 04/27/2019 1:53:10 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Wow, you sold the Gullwing? Or the collector wouldn’t take the package without it?

Jay Leno has a car collection. I have a small gun collection. Takes up far less space but unlike Jay I’m sure I’m on some gubmint s***list.

A friend wants my old 450SE. He can have it if he moves it & promises not to part it out.


44 posted on 04/27/2019 2:24:05 PM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: carriage_hill

Acturly, the Norks have agents and business fronts all over the place.

Japan is infested with them, for one example. They’re all over the mideast, especially wherever there’s been attempts to run nuke/bio/rocket weapon programs. Norks often provide the science/technical crews for that.


45 posted on 04/27/2019 2:28:28 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: carriage_hill

Meadow muffins.

He bought it off the lot and had it customized in Vladivostok.

Where is Mueller when you need him?

5.56mm


46 posted on 04/27/2019 2:31:40 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: carriage_hill

They were bought under the name
Billy Bob Smith


47 posted on 04/27/2019 2:45:25 PM PDT by advertising guy (The manliest man Obama knows is married to him.)
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To: Grimmy

Technology probably gotten from the Pakis?


48 posted on 04/27/2019 3:00:40 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

And where would the Pakis get it?

Muslims don’t do for themselves on anything more complicated than chipping rocks or basic blacksmithing.


49 posted on 04/27/2019 3:02:04 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: elcid1970

Back in the mid-70s, the 300SL Gullwing and 300 SLR (Roadster Convertible) were not very collectible, but fun to drive and definitely head-turners.

Mine were original paint and mechanicals, except for the mechanical fuel injection, which was a pain in the ass to find someone to rebuild.

I had to fly-in an older German mechanic from Jacksonville, put him up in a hotel, have his complete tool chests and FI parts trucked-in, to get the FIs rebuilt on the Gullwing and SLR.

Just too much finicky stuff on those cars, and parts were hard to locate. Even ‘repops’ weren’t being produced in any quantity, until the late 80s/early-90s. I had to have original body pieces, and good metal reworking shops were hard to find.

Collectors were, back then, into Porsches and Ferraris, not MBs. Tough market.


50 posted on 04/27/2019 3:11:30 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Grimmy

Pakistan began development of nuclear weapons in January 1972 under Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who delegated the program to the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Munir Ahmad Khan with a commitment to having the bomb ready by the end of 1976.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction


51 posted on 04/27/2019 3:14:29 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Began the program, yes.

With Muslim brain trust doing all the work? Not. Even.

Foreigners are always used. Same with all the big building projects. A muslim will be assigned as the official face of the project but he aint the one doing the actual design or engineering.


52 posted on 04/27/2019 3:18:17 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: carriage_hill

I just knew you couldn’t remember all of those stinkin’ letters.


53 posted on 04/27/2019 3:28:01 PM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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