I just wasted a BOATLOAD of gas!

[Xist]

Did the venting help, too?

[jakobnev]

.

[Frank Lee]

Of course!

It'll really help when I tear into Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and humanity in general!

Eh, scratch that. They like it that way.

[ChillyBear]

Those things are something to lust after as far as aerodynamics go.

[freebeard]

Read this—it will make you feel better:

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/201...er-for-35.html


....or not. If you read between the lines the new bridge will still have a toll.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Ecky

Plus you got to have a ... fun? road trip.

I don't think he needs any more of that kind of fun!

[Frank Lee]

You got that right!

I skipped meeting up with a friend at the Back To The 50's car show because I couldn't handle the traffic, crowds, and the drive. :/

[samwichse]

I thought from the title this thread was going to be about buying/trailering a boat .

[MetroMPG]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

The only correct decision I made during the entire ordeal was leaving it there.

I concur!

A theoretically interesting vehicle, but...

Vehicular temptations: they are many. Time is scarce. I try to actively resist them.

(Yet still browse the local ads almost daily )

[slowmover]

Poor planning. Period. Due to lack of distant car travel over last 15-years or so. The pleasures of such are now thirty years in the past.

As a smartphone is pretty well a necessity in securing and keeping a job today, so too is having an electronic toll tag. (Things are far worse in the NE and New England). One pre pays. Auto deduct from card as it runs low. Same "problem" exists Texas and elsewhere. There's no good way to "make time" (meet an established average mph, thus, mpg) otherwise. Not anymore.

Was rolling Soith Carolina yesterday and talking with another driver from our firm. Neither of us can figure who the hell all these people are (in cars) on the Interstate middle of the week and middle of the day FAR from metro areas. Or, at 2300 on a Tuesday night 80 miles or more from either Dallas or Houston. Not a holiday, not vacation weekend, etc. Every Interstate and major US or State highway is now like this. Defies belief.

Be glad you didn't get that GMC. Always an overrated van, barely qualifies as a motorhome. Capacities suck, frame is a joke, and FWD not a good match. The rear engine FMC a far better designed and built unit. About a 1000 of them out there.

There's a lengthy re power of the Dodge 440-3 being replaced by an LBZ Duramax on one of those forums. BigRabbitMan, or some such. An owner of a decade or more. Good read.

And next road trip, DoD keeps employees and contractors to 350/miles/day maximum. Day after after day is wearing. I may run 400-700/miles/day plus load or deliver (two hours each out in weather). It takes a lot out of one, even when one knows many details ahead of time on how to do things.

500/miles/day is too much in my one ton. Even across wide open far west Texas.

An Arstream travel trailer is cheaper to buy, own and use. The right one behind a small turbodiesel can hit the low 30s in mpg. Motorhomes are for rookies. Those who really don't understand what they're up to. Really, only good for 6-7 people or more. A trailer is far more efficient in every regard. An aerodynamic all aluminum TT can last forever. MoHos are nothing but maintenance pigs.

If you want a project then look to Airstream (better, Silver Streak and Avion) from mid 1990s and earlier. Airforums is a good start.