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Old 04-26-2010, 04:29 PM   #118 (permalink)
bennelson
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oconomowoc, WI, USA
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Electric Cycle - '81 Kawasaki KZ440
90 day: 334.6 mpg (US)

S10 - '95 Chevy S10
90 day: 30.48 mpg (US)

Electro-Metro - '96 Ben Nelson's "Electro-Metro"
90 day: 129.81 mpg (US)

The Wife's Car - Plug-in Prius - '04 Toyota Prius
90 day: 78.16 mpg (US)
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I finally got somebody to buy a few Mercedes parts off me - including one door.

Since I am on a corner property, I now need to get rid of the Mercedes, or the place is going to start looking like a junk yard. I wanted to at least move the car up next to my garage, where a tree blocks the view from the main road, but couldn't do that yesterday in the rain.

So, today, with a little time and some nice weather, I shuffled around the Mercedes and the S10 in my driveway. It doesn't look it, but my driveway has a slope to it. Easy to push cars down my driveway. Very hard to push them up.

So, I threw an old rubber tire on the front of the Metro and put the forklift motor to good use - pushing cars! It's been a while since I had any reason to use first gear in that car. Low gearing, and no clutch to slip made it a cinch to shove cars around!

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