I just saw this 4x4 vehicle for sale at a used-car dealership in Houston. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-o1-b_dFEWjY/Um6NTffQRwI/AAAAAAAAEbI/Kgyvzg_gqiU/w958-h574-no/IMAG0763.jpg
It has a bumper on the back with tire and gas can. It has a dual-gas tank. It looks like it was well-maintained and well-built. Unfortunately, the dealer is asking $ 15,000. It has a V-8 and a 4-speed automatic transmission, solid axles, good ground-clearance. The canvas roof looks in good shape. I wouldn't own a vehicle with a carburetor, and I doubt you could pay me to drive a Ford, but it is ready to go off-road to some place where a cave is difficult to access. I am guessing a vehicle like this would be available at an affordable price outside of Houston, but they will sell it to a young wanna-be yuppie outdoorsman who has more money than sense. My personal opinion is that a caver should not drive an expensive vehicle up into the Sierra Madres, but at the same time you will need something like this to get to some of the places were old logging roads have been abandoned and have over-grown. I am not a big off-road enthusiast, so I don't know if those are the ideal tires you would want on a trip up there. You will wish you had those knobby mud-tires in those low muddy-spots that you occasionally have to pass. My next car is likely to be very tiny and a miser on gas, and maybe a Nissan Leaf. While I have your attention, Home Depot has a 2-pack LED headlamp set for only $ 4.88, which includes batteries. The lamps look good enough for a trip to Whirlpool. But they have a flashing red mode and a green mode. The brand is Defiant. I could not find the headlamps on the internet. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
