suzyj wrote:
> Stuart Lamble wrote:
>
>> Rent a Bomb charges $57/day for a "new" car; older cars are around
>> $35/day for a manual without aircon.
>
> There's a lot to be said for the little local outfits. We hire mainly
> from a place just down the road from us, called Aero Auto Rentals. A
> ~5 year old Excel costs $45 or so for a single day.
We spent 9 months in the USA in 1969-70. Bought a bomb for daily transport
(1961 Buick V8, $150) and sold it the day before we left. This left us with
the problem of getting to the airport with luggage,etc. I left it up to
Helen to rent a car we could leave at the airport and told her something
small and cheap would be good as we were only going to drive it 50 miles.
She rang from the Hire-car company to say they didn't have any 'compacts'
but would give us a 'near-compact' for the same price. I said yeah, go
ahead. She picked me up at work in the 'near-compact', a 6 litre V8 Buick
Riviera.
Mind you, petrol was $0.18 per US gallon.
Theo