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DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on March 31, 2005, 01:52:03 am ---Surburbans are nice too
Can you get a cab in there?
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Sure can. ;D
ChadTower:
What are you paying for that, if I may ask?
Stingray:
--- Quote from: IntruderAlert on March 31, 2005, 01:52:03 am ---Surburbans are nice too
Can you get a cab in there?
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Those things are huge, you could just about get the S-10 in one.
-S
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 31, 2005, 09:15:41 am ---What are you paying for that, if I may ask?
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I'm not sure if Drew wants me to reveal the price to the public or not. I'll leave that decision up to him.
I have it home now, I like it, lots of rust, but it is really nice inside and the drivetrain is real strong and it did 16.5 MPG on the trip. It need a few assorted repairs, which I will be starting tommorrow. But it already runs and drives just fine, repairs are in the area of a radiator which still works but is obviously rusting on the inside, some suspension (perhaps alignment, or even tire balance) issues, a non-working temp guage, two radio speakers that don't work, I need to take the running boards and fender flares off the other side (I ripped them off one side with my bare hands at the gas station, everywhere they were attached to on that side was rusted out, that side was just flapping there in the wind.
I'll be trying to source some replacement front fenders (this is where the rust is heaviest, and a DARN EASY part to replace), other major rust areas I will cut out the rust and simply have a buddy weld me in some rough repairs.
As to the extent of the rust, the front fenders have it worst, and most of the sheetmetal below the doors is gone, and there are a few other spots as well. It IS extensive enough where it wouldn't be a winning proposal to truly try to 100 percent repair it. But most of it is located in areas where cutting out the rust and welding in some sheet metal (without doing actual bodywork to it), really wouldn't look that bad.
DrewKaree:
Paige, I dunno if it matters, but we bought a generic center console from Wal-Mart. Depends on the size you want, but the biggest one was only ~$40, and they have a half size one too. Something to hold drinks, and ours had a little bin to hold tapes/CD's/various crap, and a trash holder for the backseat folks. The drink holder was its most useful function. The hang-on-the-window ones are crap personified.
Manuals are in the driver side pocket up front
Well, evidently the price was worth taking the bus to visit me ;)
I'm honestly STARTLED it gets 16.5 mpg! Obviously it was mostly highway mileage, but still...oh, if you happen to find a pair of PRESCRIPTION sunglasses in it somewhere....I haven't seen 'em for a month now, and I'm just holding out hope I have them lying around somewhere in a box....I'm fairly certain they're not in there, but just in case.