You wanna talk timeless design? Horsepower? Feast your eyes on "Dallas"? See below.
i) Business trip to Seattle, but what do the funders care if they fly me back to Boston, or, to, say, Dallas...
ii) bought sight unseen, off the Dallas Craigslist for $600
iii) hey, what's the route from Dallas to Rhode Island? Wow, straight through Memphis. Can you spell GRACELAND!!
iv) 3.5 days, 1700 miles, small problem with a leaking front main seal (eventually $7 to fix once back in RI)
v) 1985 Toyota Tercel T4WD wagon with real shift on the fly 4WD, not AWD. A whopping 62 HP. But, before you laugh, perhaps you should Google "Tercel Marseille" for a hint at what a cult car this is. Wait, I'll do it for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oovaps6bcOACan't remember if this is the vid with the Tercel with a snorkel on it or not.....
vi) Friday night, at 7 PM, just before the peak of the blizzard here (and before the Guv issued a ban on driving...), Scout and I jumped in the Tercel to take a quick trip to the boathouse just to check on things. The deepest snow we went through was 10". Just shift it into 4WD and then, if necessary, into the extra-low gear only available when in 4WD. Works every time.
All told, "Priceless."
Here's 2 pics. OK, perhaps "Feast" as used above is a bit rich.... We went to the dog park today but the plows had blocked the entrance so I x-country skied in while Scout just romped in the snow. Other photo shows the Auray Punt dinghy on the Tercel. No, I didn't realize I was color coordinating when I painted the dinghy. No, I don't have a Caddy that color or golf pants to match....
Tercel_N_Punt.jpg
TercelAtDogPark.jpg
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