We can get right hand drive turbo diesel and diesel vans, pickups and Land Cruisers up here in the Okanagan, all low mileage and nice condition. Kind of pricey for their age, but not abused - 15 years and older, and you can import. I want a double cab Toyota Hilux...not sure about going to the right hand drive though, mostly a concern about passing motorhomes and trucks and not being able to peek out around them easily enough.
Edward Beggs http://www.biofuels.ca On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:22 PM, robert luis rabello wrote: > > > Neoteric Biofuels Inc wrote: > >> <snip> > >> Some days the owners do, of course, need these things, but almost all >> the ones I saw were empty and the funny thing is, a 4 cylinder >> turbodiesel got me and 120+ litres of fuel (when I left here), tools, >> clothing, computer and digital video studio there and back, at temps >> as >> low as -15C, and at over 50 mpg (average speed around 100 km/h) > > The perceived "need" and the reality are frequently two different > things. I lived in Terrace, which is in west central B.C. --an area > that > receives tremendous quantities of snow--for a little over two years. > I drove > around in a rear wheel drive 1985 Pontiac Parisienne through snow and > ice > every winter and only got stuck twice. (Both times on a slippery > incline > very close to the school where I taught. My students loved to make > fun of my > innate "Californian" inability to drive in the snow. . .) In those > conditions, I kept a candle in the glove box, blankets and a shovel in > the > trunk, but never needed four wheel drive. Even on a trip up to > Cranberry > Junction during deep winter, all season radials were more than > sufficient to > get me around. > > My lovely wife had a 2.8 liter 5 speed Camaro at that time. We > kept a > pair of cylinder heads in the back of that thing and NEVER got stuck! > > Now that I live in the mild climate east of Vancouver, I drive a > 2.3 > liter 5 speed Ford Ranger. It's two wheel drive and remarkably good > in the > slippery snow we get down here. Of course, it helps to drive > cautiously in > inclement weather! (The big four wheel drive trucks and SUVs seem to > be the > first ones in the ditch whenever it snows. . .) > > The Ranger delivers no better 10 kilometers per liter no matter how > carefully I drive it. Personally, I find this fuel economy pretty > pathetic, > given that my propane powered Pontiac with a 5.7 liter V 8 used to get > better > than 6 km / liter with an automatic transmission, and it carried around > nearly 1 tonne of additional mass! But the truck is very practical > and I'm > having a hard time letting it go. . . (Why buy a car when you can > have a > truck???) > > Replacing the Ranger with a full sized diesel is an option I've > considered. But I don't need 4 wheel drive, and the diesel trucks in > my > price range are in MUCH rattier condition than my Ranger. To find > something > comparable, I'd have to spend over $20 000. I can buy a LOT of > gasoline for > that! (Although I don't need anything full sized, I drove a 6.3 turbo > diesel > a couple of months ago and LOVED the throttle response--it was like my > '73 > Chevelle all over again. . .) > > Small trucks with diesels used to be easier to find than they are > now. > Personally, I'd like one of those 4 door turbo diesel Rangers built in > Indonesia! Apparently, however, it's impossible to import them into > Canada, > and Ford seems unwilling to build them here. Instead, we get the > Explorer > SporTrac, with it's completely USELESS box and ONLY a gasoline engine. > > Too bad! > > robert luis rabello > "The Edge of Justice" > Adventure for Your Mind > http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/9782 > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
