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I dunno, I found it rather entertaining in content, if a bit deserving of a Mirsky in style.

Spdloader proclaimed:

That is a few years old. Style gets better with practice. ;^)

Earle

One might also ask why didn't you trim the other 260+ quoted lines in your post?

Or why you top-post?

Nathan,

I got $4,500 cash from a neighbor this morning. It was what we paid for it.

I made you something. Click on the "Letter to Registered Voters, Town of Silverton" link. Think about what it would be like, to be one of the people named in the letter, and know that everyone else in town was reading it too.

I paid about $11,000 for my Wrangler new in 1994. It had the hard top, seat upgrade, rear seat, console, carpet and cassette player. I got an extra soft top at the time too. Then I found out about the difference, between YJ half doors and YJ full doors. It took me a couple years, to straighten that mess out.

It looks as if a new one, with a soft top only, lists for about $18,500. Mine is only now getting broken in with 80,000 miles on it.

Earle

I don't know. For the most part, SMOG controls are cheap plastic that should cost virtually nothing to make, and parts like suspensions, transmissions, and engines get flimsier looking every year. The new Wrangler base model has a Neon engine in it, while mine has a cast iron, push rod engine, that people tell me should get another hundred thousand with minimal repairs and maintenance. The Neon engine has a good reputation too, but I don't like the looks of it.

Earle

Why anybody would rent a UHaul for a big move mystifies me.

rented a ryder truck a year later and it was no better.

You can possibly get a bum truck from anybody, but you are virtually guaranteed a junker from UHaul.

Last truck I rented was from Penske. Professional operation, good truck, good rate.

and ryder.

Ryder no longer exists as a retail truck rental operation (I think that their OTR truck leasing arm "Ryder Logicstics" still exists but I didn't bother to look it up).

Ryder sold their truck rental arm to Budget in 1996 along with a lease on the trademarks, Budget operated the "Yellow Truck" business as "Ryder TRS". In March of 2002 Ryder filed suit against Budget over the use of the trademarks. In July of 2002 Budget filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and in January of 2003 began pulling the Ryder name off its trucks and phasing out the yellow boxes.*

In 1995 I wondered what would happen to Ryder and their heavily advertized yellow trucks, now I know.

According to the Ryder web site, they only do business and local rentals any more.

Earle

"RJ" wrote

LOL! One of my fond memories happened driving through a blizzard in Wisconsin. Me and my FWD plus a few 18-wheelers were the only ones still on the road. Suddenly out of the driving snow emerged a U-Haul truck with a car in tow, the driver white knuckled at the wheel and his passenger obviously terrified. Across the side of the truck was painted "An adventure in moving". I'll bet it was an adventure the poor couple never forget! I still hope they got wherever they were going safely.

LPG conversion probably. That's how I run the Wagoneer. Dave Milne

LPG is cheaper in Europe? Here it is quite a bit cheaper than petrol, $1.80 versus $2.80 a gallon, but no one knows how long this situation will last. The petrol price includes road use taxes too. It could have been a diesel, but I was so surprised to see it, that I didn't look.

Earle