Yes, and OLD being the key word.  I just moved from Sacramento to
Mariposa (both CA) in November.  Early Saturday morning I showed up to
pick up the truck, and the lady asked if I can drive stick shift.
Luckily I can, otherwise I would have been SOL.  This old 27-28' beast
was tired too.  I was down to 15mph at times trying to get up the hill,
belching and farting the whole way.  It was lovely...

Cheers,
JD

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob <rob_b9@LYCOS.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:43:33 -0800
Subject: Re: o/t truck rentals...moving

> At  2/16/2004 07:29 PM, you wrote:
> >Bob Stevens wrote:
> >>David Brodbeck wrote:
> >>"They have improved their equipment a lot in the last few years,
> though."
> >>
> >>I was cruising home this weekend from St. George, UT doing maybe 80
> and a
> >>UHaul passes me like I was doing 50. They have improved their EQP.
> This was
> >>a fairly good sized "box" and about 16' or so. It was bright, shiny
> and new.
> >
> >Yeah, the one I rented to tow my '82 with a couple years ago looked
> >brand new and had a V-10 engine and an automatic transmission with
> >overdrive.  Very different from the 55-mph governed, manual-shift
> trucks
> >you used to get.
>
> There are still old manual shift trucks in the system, I used one to
> move
> from MN last Aug. It was a big one & diesel .
>
>
>
> Rob
>
> rob_b9@lycos.com
> Now in western Washington, USA