What's Your Ride?

[Guest]

Lol, she stays dirty. The extra hp helps but she's huge when trying to squeeze down some trails. I keep telling myself "it'll buff out." Between you and me? A lot won't. Matter of fact I need to do some body work on the passenger side, stumps don't give, lol.

Well at 70 I get 15.5 or so mpg and at 60 I get 18-19 so yeah it helps. Though the 400 hp Camaro (2001 with a stick) got 27.6 mpg with no tune on the interstate. A good tune could have netted me real close to 30. Gotta love modern engine/trans combos. My buddy had an 03 Corvette with a stick and saw 32 mpg one time.

[AaronD]

They've come a long way in better mpg with horsepower, I'll say that. When I was in highschool, if you had a true 400 hp machine you were lucky to see better than 13 mpg. Maybe the hearse that rides my corpse to the cemetary will be 1,000 hp and get 50 mpg LOL

[Guest]

I'll just take the 1,000 hp Hurse, hell with mpg, lol. I want the most b.a. funeral procession ever.

[Guest]

Could probably do 1000HP/30mpg hearse with a 94-96 Fleetwood with LS1 swap... could be rigged to tow 7000lb too for a camper

[Guest]

Can I be burried IN the camper?

[AaronD]

LOL, when you're dead does it really matter?

[Guest]

http://glenboulier.weebly.com/

Our ride amongst the photos on my photo site...enjoy!

lookoutman...

Edited November 7, 2012 by lookoutman7

[Guest MikeG]

Mine is a 2.8 diesel Toyota Hilux, 1994, which lives wherever I leave it in Africa.

Here in a market, pumping tyres:

Here ready to cook:

And here with the rooftent open:

Mike

[Guest]

Dig the rooftent, they were popular in the 70s here, I saw one once at a yard sale, but was low on funds.

there's a modern version here, bit spendy but nice...

http://www.campinglife.com/top-stories/boar%E2%80%99s-den-rv-test/

Just to get me off the ground though, I'm kinda hankering for one of these...

http://www.costco.com/Lifetime%C2%AE-Camping-Tent-Trailer.product.11752397.html

Because I don't need something huge and thirsty to pull it... says 2000lb GVWR, but I think it only weighs 800 so if you only put another 200lb in there, most compacts can pull it even... midsize cars might have a 2000lb tow rating, which would mean you could pack it up pretty good, and get more stuff with you than the smaller colemans or starcrafts etc that might weigh 1500-1700 dry.

Continually disappointed by "New lightweights!" articles in the RV press that turn out to be 4,500lb monsters.. on the rationale that you can tow them with your midsize SUV... just about...

[Guest]

13 year old minivan, hehehehe, it gets me to my site and that's what counts. Right?

Right?!

[AndrewOW]

My car isn't exactly off-road friendly, but then again, I wouldn't really want to go off road in it!

[AaronD]

Guy down the road had this for 125K and only 2K miles on! Dang! It was sold before I had the chance to pull the funds together

[Guest]

Well if you can scrape up 125K get a cheap Gallardo and let Heffner performance at it.

[Guest]

Aaron, yes, it matters even as I decay.

Andrew, Supra's are pretty sweet. 2JZGTE I'm guessing. Only way to have them, right? I always wanted to grab a piece of one back when I had my LT1 and LS1 Camaros but never could find one out in the wild. Slightly less elusive than bigfoot.

I like the roof tent idea but I'm thinking a camper would be more practical for my pick up. Lots of room. Though I could have more room if it ran the length of the truck like Mike's. Hmmm...

[AndrewOW]

Yes, it's a 19 year old twin turbo aerotop. It's BPU too, so around 400bhp, and a gorgeous ride too. I've had it well over 6 years now, and still going strong.