On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:43:40 +0200, "Edgar"
wrote:

Surely higher fuel costs come automatically if you buy something like a big
SUV?

You can get about 14.5 with a Lincoln Navigator. It has a 330 cu in
DOHC 32 valve 300 hp engine. A four cam truck who would have ever
thought it. The engine possibly looks cool, but it is so buried that
you can't even see it. Takes two hours to change the plugs. A flathead
takes two minutes. Book said to change them at 100 000 miles, but they
were still good.

Casady

"Richard Casady" wrote:

You can get about 14.5 with a Lincoln Navigator.

That's the best you get with that pig.

Bring on $10/gal.

Lew

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:03:37 GMT, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:

You can get about 14.5 with a Lincoln Navigator.

That's the best you get with that pig.

Bring on $10/gal.

By all means, clear the road of the rif-raf who can't afford it. When
paperbacks and magazines, as well as cigs, were a quarter, so was gas.
Quarters were harder to come by then, than ten bucks is now.
Relatively speaking, gas is cheaper now than it was when it cost a
quarter. Ninty years ago an oz of gold would by you a hundred gallons.
Gold is now a grand, and you can get some 400 gal for an oz.

When tens of millions of idiots stay off the waterways, so much the
better.

Two things about the " Pig ".

It will tow the one ton Starcraft, or for that matter the John Deere.

Deer, or, God forbid, bikers or jaywalkers, will end up in the grill
and not your face. We live just outside of town, and see deer every
day. Bambi has already totaled one of my vehicles. Iowa lets the
victim keep the deer, but it ran away.

Another advantage is that you can see over the tiny ****boxes that get
such marvelous mileage. Simple high school physics tells you what
happens when a ****box hits you. They lose, but they saved money.
Their bad luck I suppose. If it is all they can afford, it is.

By coincidence, a Model T Ford got about the same mileage as the Pig.

Casady