On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:59:13 Ron Johnson wrote: >A vile slander. My Geo Metro drives comfortably at 70 so long as I am alone. Is that with a tailwind going downhill? :) I had a friend in high school with an old Datsun that could only get above 50 going downhill. >And I can put a kayak on top, too. Last summer when the wife and I were decideing to get into kayaking our major concern was whether or not we could haul two sea kayaks on one of our cars, an Integra GS-R coupe or a Prelude. Not exactly large cars. When we saw a Metro going down the highway with a _huge_ tripping canoe on top all of our fears were erased. I swear that canoe was larger than the Metro. If they would have slid off the road and flipped into water it would have just floated away, wheels in the air. :) The two kayaks on the Integra GS-R has worked well. Gas mileage drops to about 24-25 on the highway but it still has plenty of power to pass. The advantage of having a car that is quick to begin with. :) Mel --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
At 01:36 PM 3/5/1999 -0000, Mel Grindol wrote: >On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:59:13 Ron Johnson wrote: >>A vile slander. My Geo Metro drives comfortably at 70 so long as I am alone. > >Is that with a tailwind going downhill? :) I had a friend in high school with an old Datsun that could only get above 50 going downhill. My wife thinks of the Metro as you do, but it's really a nice little car. It's noisy, yes, and its shape makes it jump around when trucks pass at 80 mph, but it's a fine little commuter car, and it carries one kayak just fine using foam blocks. Our other car is a Honda Accord, and with the racks on it, it has carried three kayaks at a time at 70 mph. The ideal shuttle vehicle, in my view, looks a lot like whatever I've got that I can tie a kayak onto. Ron *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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