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Bill Turlock
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"Charles Wm. Dimmick" wrote:
>
> Tom Sherman wrote:
> > Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
> >>
> >> Richard Evans wrote:
> >>> [email protected] wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What's under your truck's cap, exactly? Is it _really_ more than can
> >>>> fit in the back of my Honda wagon with the seats down, or another
> >>>> better-gas-mileage vehicle? If so, are you carrying it because you'll
> >>>> lose significant money by not taking it everywhere? Or is it there
> >>>> because it's a place to store it?
> >>> I haul garbage. You want that in the back of your Honda?
> >>>
> >> About the only thing that pickups are better at than station wagons,
> >> that and odd sized loads....
> >
> > Or heavy loads. I doubt a station wagon would have been happy hauling
> > the thirty 50-lb. bags I did in a 1 ton pickup the other day.
> >
> Depends on your definition of a station wagon. When I moved from
> Texas to Tennessee, back in 1970, I hauled 1700 lbs. of books in
> my 1966 Chevy Suburban. Checked weight both before and after loading
> at the local truck weigh station.
>
What was that, maybe a half dozen of them chiseled-in-stone
books?
>
> Tom Sherman wrote:
> > Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
> >>
> >> Richard Evans wrote:
> >>> [email protected] wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What's under your truck's cap, exactly? Is it _really_ more than can
> >>>> fit in the back of my Honda wagon with the seats down, or another
> >>>> better-gas-mileage vehicle? If so, are you carrying it because you'll
> >>>> lose significant money by not taking it everywhere? Or is it there
> >>>> because it's a place to store it?
> >>> I haul garbage. You want that in the back of your Honda?
> >>>
> >> About the only thing that pickups are better at than station wagons,
> >> that and odd sized loads....
> >
> > Or heavy loads. I doubt a station wagon would have been happy hauling
> > the thirty 50-lb. bags I did in a 1 ton pickup the other day.
> >
> Depends on your definition of a station wagon. When I moved from
> Texas to Tennessee, back in 1970, I hauled 1700 lbs. of books in
> my 1966 Chevy Suburban. Checked weight both before and after loading
> at the local truck weigh station.
>
What was that, maybe a half dozen of them chiseled-in-stone
books?