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Old 03-25-2013, 09:22 AM   #12 (permalink)
mackerel
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Pablo - '86 Toyota Pickup 1 Ton, 22RE, W56 trans, 4.300 diff.
Pickups
90 day: 25.68 mpg (US)

Red Brighton - '98 Subaru Legacy Wagon Brighton
90 day: 32.3 mpg (US)

Rust Victim - '00 Toyota Tacoma SR5, 2WD, 5 speed manual, 2.4l, Extracab.
Last 3: 29.68 mpg (US)
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I hear what people are saying about closing the front gap, but listen: Pablo is a work truck. Sometimes he's going to do un-aerodynamic things. The idea is that the bed can be fitted with lots of different options, including the wood sides you see in the picture, or an aerodynamic shell, or the farm stock sides. My goal is good mileage and to haul home as much useful stuff as I can for the garden and house.

For instance, here's Pablo with eleven 32-gallon trash cans full of dead crab bodies.



Here's the rust victim, Pablo's predecessor, hauling rockweed (a kind of seaweed) for the garden.



So nothing too fancy. Remember that as it is, I have to remove the side skirts to change a tire.
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