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Originally Posted by 57NAPCO
I drove it up to Maine first, I am fortunate enough to be able to get out of the hill country in the summer and live on our boat with my wife in the S.Portland harbor.
The drive was 850 miles at 65-75 MPH getting around 15mpg. Ran like a champ and used maybe a half a quart of oil.
I got up at 4:00 am to catch a 6:00am flight to Raleigh. Landed at 10:00 and seller met me at airport. Gave him the cash and I started the search for tires. Took a couple hours to find suitable ones and by 3:00 in the afternoon I was on the road back to the boat/home. Drove it straight thru and home by 10:00 am the following day. In total from getting up to leave and laying back down it was a 30 hour adventure  |
That sounds like an adventure! I just made about a 500 mile round trip to the hill country in mine. Half of that was pulling a 21ft. boat. I was a little worried about keeping up with the flow of traffic pulling the boat, but the old girl didn't complain too much. I was able to maintain about 65-70 m.p.h. with the boat. The speed limit on parts of I-10 is 75 m.p.h.