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The Prius question will be whether #1, if I really need it and #2, if I can get a decent price out of it and #3, if investing a little into it would pay off.
Similar Priuses, Prii, Prius (plural) are also going for quite a bit. But most of those have a front bumper and a hood that doesn't look like it's been in Ukraine for the past month (I got two hoods, one hail damaged and the other pretty bent up from deer crash). The Prius burns oil and I still need to get the front right wheel bearing replaced, which I have but just haven't gotten around to it. Other than that it is a pretty decent car. I think if I get a bumper I can bondo the hood to make it look fine.
I have about $1,000 into it so far, $300 Prius plus used fender, hood and aftermarket headlights and three HV modules less the cost to sell the three bad ones, plus a $20 6 cell NiMH battery charger and a simple discharge circuit I put together. OH, and I bought some sparkplugs and changed the oil a couple times.
I was hoping to install a ham radio into the Prius as I don't have much of a chance on the property I live at because #1, I live near an airport and #2, the landlord is a pain to deal with. The Avalon would be harder to install a ham radio antenna because of the sun roof unless I went the route of magnetic base antennas or something similar. The bigger roof and ease of putting the antenna right in the middle through a hole makes the Prius a better ground plane in theory for higher wavelenghts. But the Avalon already has a trailer hitch which would be good for a 40 ft mast.
Enough tangents so far?
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