On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:39:08 -0500, Paul Thomas wrote:
>Thanks again to all of the Mallinsons for their hard work and for the
>participants that came from all over North America - hope to see you and a
>whole lot of others next year
You'll definitely see me next year....and the year after that.....and so on,
and so
on.
Speaking of getting expensive, gas is definitely going to cost more as time
goes by.
In 2008, the Seattle convention is going to make the San Francisco one pale by
comparison. You all HAVE GOT to make it to Seattle, if you never come to the
west
coast again after that.
If you save $5 a week between now and then, and put it into as high an interest
paying savings account as you can find, you will have over $500 in principle,
plus
whatever the interest is...3% would give you about $520 or a bit more. You all
can
afford $5 a week. That will go a long way towards getting yourselves here in
two
years. If you also drive the speed limit on the freeway, rather than tempting
all
the gendarmes along the way, you'll get another 10% in gas mileage.
For example....
For me, just slowing from 65 to 62 (using the cruise to keep things accurate,
and in
the slow lane) on my commute, 45 mi. freeway and 7 mi. city, got the GS another
2.5
mpg (+10%) average (city/highway).....from 25 to 27.5!! (It EPAs stock at
only 23
Highway.) Slowing engine RPMs are the secret. Overall decrease including tire
change was from 2900 to 2350. I'm looking for a new ring and pinion now!!
By contrast, Lowrider got 26 mpg every day on this commute cruising at
70....SHOs
are geared much better than the GS. It got right around 30 on a trip across the
country every summer.
Plan now and be ready!!!
Just doing some rough figuring here...if the distance is 2800 miles from coast
to
coast, at 28 mpg, well within the capabilities of a healthy stock SHO at cruise
(racers...YMMV), you'll pay $400 for 100 gallons of gas at $4 per gallon. So
over
half the trip would be paid for with your savings. If you saved $7.50 per week,
you'd have $780 principle plus interest. You'd have your gas costs covered.
George
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