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Old 09-04-2012, 10:26 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Okay, you've got a lot of "stuff" floating around. But don't forget insurance, taxes, maintenance, repairs and the energy necessary to remember what vehcle needs what. Gasoline just seems like a high cost, when an all-around appraisal can show a different outcome.

I'd look for a first gen Dodge Cummins (1989-1993) and focus my efforts there. It can do all you're looking to do, and do it better (potentially) than the routes you've mapped thus far. They are complicated, and, IMHO, unnecessary, where one not-perfect vehicle trumps several vehicles shoved into abstract slots.

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