New England B.S. Thread

A resident Masshole!



Although I will say I hate that term.

 

makes sense and we are going to try to move as much as possible of our events outside and keep people in the big wide open. I think people feel much more comfortable outside and not contained in a small space.

 

Just checking a lot of "Mainers" seem to have plates from away.

 

720 miles to empty! I like this 36 gallon tank!

 

A nice tent would work! Something fancy with walls that can roll-up or slide open.

Are you buying that?

 

That’s nuts! I don’t understand how they stuff a bigger tank in the 150 than they can in the 250! I’m capped at 34 gallons.

New truck’s through its first tank of fuel. First highway run to Bourne must have been in regen, averaged just over 14 mpg on the way down, I’ve been averaging over 20 ever since. The power this thing has is absolutely addicting, I can’t wait to get the trailer behind it and see what it can really do.

 

LOL at the kayak place today

 

I had 70 cents/gallon off at Stop and Shop so I filled it from just under a half tank today and it took 20 gallons. So far I'm about 1 MPG less than what my 2.7 would do. I have averaged 21.5 MPG in the ~700 miles I've had the truck so far.

 

We took my wife's Camry to Maine over the weekend and for a 2 hour trip doing 75mph we averaged 42mpg.
We went to Maine and back then to the Cape and back on a 1/2 tank.
The fuel mileage on that thing is awesome!

 

Nice Series II, but whats up with that spare tire?

 

LOL no idea. It's over at contoocook kayak and canoe

 

I thought that's where those things were mounted?

On the way to the cottage there's a house in Duxbury with a gorgeous D110. Lifted, beadlocked, winched, etc. I think they've got a stock one too as I saw one there. I never realized how much those things were worth until I did some reading on them.

 

They are supposed to be mounted there but that one is useless, it's gotta be the right size at least.

My brother has a '63 Series II hardtop wagon he has spent more than $70k on. They are just crazy money. His spent 2 years getting built, galvanized chassis and firewall, new motor, you can see the sliders and bumpers, all custom built. It's a rat rod style with the body all original from 1963 but all deluxe undercover.

 

Ohhh, I didn't even notice the tire size!

Reminds me of the Jeep I had in Aruba. 285s on all four tires and a 235 spare.

 

That's pretty amazing. When I think of a $70k vehicle, that's usually not what comes to mind. That said, just reasonable trim level trucks are also a hell of a lot more expensive that I could have imagined...

 

The used car market is on fire. Absolutely lost its mind. KBB emails me periodically to update me on the value changes of my truck. It stated my truck increased 12% and would expect to sell for 24-29k from a Dealer.......... I bought it for 28k 7 flipping years ago. Tahoe or Yukon might be out for the wife as there is dwindling inventory and prices are rising past where we wanted to be....... Not sure what the plan will be. Was hoping to purchase end of this month so we'd have it for the trip to lake george but the lease officially ends in september. Looks like we will have it until then if this is how the market remains. Might just pickup a used RAV for a year or two then try again.

 

Is Toyota still doing 0%? I don't know what the deals are today, but I got a RAV for my MIL at Copeland for under invoice and 0% for 60. They gave her $800 for the trade at the time because the market was dead then. I'm surprised it's going back up. Maybe I'll entertain 20k offers on the Vette!

 

Keep your eye on Cars.com, never know what will pop up. I never dreamed we'd pick up my wife's car for what we did or trade my truck for the diesel for what I paid. Deals are definitely out there to me had!

 

Morning (afternoon) all.
What a Monday this has been. We're absolutely slammed for some reason today.