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Subject:Re: Friday: What's the perfect second car for Vanagon owners?
From:Marc Perdue
Date:Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:14:18 -0400

I'm with Max on this one, the 1967 Shelby 289 AC Cobra with the
aluminum body. Add to that my 1995 Toyota T100 SR5 pickup and a 1986
Honda Civic 4WD wagon that got 40 MPG on the highway, oh, and a 1988
BMW 535is, red, with cream interior.

Marc Perdue

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:
> Since my other car is a diesel Westy, my vote for the perfect third car is a
> one ton pickup.  When I need to drag a busted bus home, a U-Haul car hauler
> is $50/day. When I pick it up with the one ton dually, they don't even ask
> what I'm going put on it. (Mileage? I might have put 25 miles on it in the
> past year.... Who cares that it gets 10-12 mpg.)
>
> Jim
> '82 diesel Westfalia (wife's bus)
> '84 ABA powered Adventurewagen (Jim's daily driver)
> '88 460 powered Ford F-350 dually
> other stuff