Posted on 07/31/2020 11:02:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Motor Trends Car of the Year. Purchased one when I came home from Vietnam. $3600 loaded. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Howard Hughes competitor, forget the name, actually pointed out the folly of steam cars. He got a copy of the Doble. He brought it into his factory. He hit it, hard, with a wrench. He then said, 'Great. You just cooked dad, mom, and the three kids like lobsters."
I'm also having a hard time seeing electric trucks as useful towing my 8000 lb camper. Already this year I've taken it to campgrounds 150 to 300 miles away. Some relatively level trips, some up in the mountains. Even with careful planning mother nature has her own ideas. I've seen our fuel mileage (diesel) average as high as mid to upper 20s for mpg while towing and going 65 - 70 with a tail wind. I've also slogged along at 55 fighting a quartering wind getting 7 mpg. So any range while towing you're really going to want a 2x or even 3x margin of safety. Or you're going to be trying to stuff your truck and camper/trailer into a charging station. Or having to drop the trailer in a nearby parking lot to get the truck into the charging station. For now, I think you'd have to really want to have an electric truck to justify having an electric truck.
+1
You aren’t into autocrossing?
what Kind of saw you get? I got a kobalt, and sold my three crappy gas chainsaws that had that same starting problem. It’s pretty awesome and I really like the chain tightener compared to the stihl.
I think it’s an incredible idea. Of course, the real world will approve or disapprove. Imagine what the aftermarket would do with a vehicle like this?
My scenario? Why not? You need to get out of your hidebound view of a vehicle as something you drive and think of it as a conveyance you can configure to your liking.
Just take a step a LITTLE away if this helps. Make a current day RV self driving. Once the tech is reliable remove the steering wheel and front seats.
If you do not think that is probable you are like the people in the 1960s who said people never will need nor want computers in their home (much less on their person).
>>$3600 loaded.<<
That is like $100,000 today! (/MST3K)
I don’t have to splain MST3K I hope :)
>>Great. You just cooked dad, mom, and the three kids like lobsters.”<<
I hate Cream of Familia.
I’ve been looking at Chevrolet Greenbrier vans. They seem like a similar concept from a while back.
That was GM’s answer to a question nobody asked.................
This is the one I had for a while.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=21312692@N00&q=cougar%20
Had to be sacrificed to solve a problem and peace at home.
I will get another one day. My wife can get as mad as she likes.
Yes, but they are retro-cool. And I like Corvairs.
Like this one:
https://www.motortrend.com/news/1964-chevrolet-corvair-greenbrier-classic-drive/
“what Kind of saw you get? I got a kobalt, and sold my three crappy gas chainsaws that had that same starting problem. It’s pretty awesome and I really like the chain tightener compared to the stihl.”
Yes, I bought the 80V Kobalt. I have about 14-15 hours on it so far. The old Stihl when I was moving around logs I would leave it running because I never knew if it would restart.
Yes, the chain tightener is great.
My boss’s brother rebuilds Corvairs and VW Things.
There is a couple of them right here were I work..............
My boss’s brother rebuilds Corvairs and VW Things.
There is a couple of them right here were I work..............
Where did I mention how the electricity is generated?
MY point was a lifetime of using gas and battery powered tools, the battery powered electric are far superior
Mine was a 390-4bbl, Inverness green. Four on the floor, with crappy Firestone 500 tires that wore out in 8000 miles. Traded it for a van.
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