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Originally Posted by slowmover
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Practicality rules the scenario. What man can call himself a man otherwise?
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I think your posts are always insightful, but that one should be engraved in stone somewhere. Except with 'hot ridding' corrected.
So I'm past the wife and family part. Four-door driver's doors are too short. This
was my solution:
The bike rack integrates two solutions. The bike had $100 in it after both rims had been replaced.
Modification to
double the range.
Although the embodied energy was invested 46 years ago and it's the cleanest, most reliable car I've driven; practically, it's too valuable and fragile to flog. so:
Where the Superbeetle gets 30mpg burning clear premium, the new weekly driver [should get] 40 mpg burning vegetables. Plus I see an opportunity to mod it with a mild hybrid KERS.
NADA mid-book on the '71 Super is $8100 (it was $7700 six months ago
) with original MSRP of $1,985; on the '79 Dasher, $1325 with the original MSRP of $7,228. They've sort of traded places over the years.
