Want to buy Bluebird

[Dorn Hetzel]

It stayed straight without too much trouble, but then again last year I took
a truck driving class at the local technical school. Everything they had us
practicing in had 750K miles or more on it and steered like a barge being
pushed by a sailboat And a 53ft single trailer or two 20ft trailers

My wife has driven our crew cab F350 pulling a 28ft/102inch 5th wheel or a
30ft horse trailer without too much trouble. Mostly I think I'll let her
drive interstate highway stretches in low to medium traffic until she gets
used to it. I don't know if we'll spend the money on power mirrors but I do
get her point about bigger ones with the fish-eye sections to help eliminate
blind-spots...

I have a whole mini-fleet of diesel vehicles at this point (the Bird, an
F350, two diesel VW Jetta's, a tractor and an excavator) so I think I'm
going to start buying synthetic diesel by the drum

My 12 yr old son who is home schooled rode along the 60 miles to the shop
this morning and slept all but the first and last 2 miles He just
climbed in, lay down on the couch, and fell right asleep

Regards,

Dorn Hetzel
77FC35
Hogansville, GA



On Nov 26, 2007 5:07 PM, bubblerboy64 wrote:

>
> Dorn, Sounds like you are doing pretty well. I liked the MF RV. I
> think I know what MF stands for :-). How did you find driving it as
> per keeping it going straight down the road? It took me about a 1000
> miles to get reasonably comfortable with that. It seemed to me that
> sitting forward of the steer wheels really affected the correction of
> the steering. Changing fluids and filters is always a good idea. I
> about pooped my pants when they told me the thing took 21 quarts of
> oil. I have not serviced the transmission but that will be done
> soon. These ole girls take big drinks of oil, gas and antifreeze not
> to mention diesel fuel. I try to keep the fuel tank topped off so it
> doesn't seem so bad. I will have to look into a gas only card. You
> are correct if you can save 3% that is getting to be significant. The
> fellow that had mine previously said the third owner spent $1000
> installing remote mirrors. They are nice. Yep keep the wife happy.
> Has she driven it? My wife will not touch the driving of the Big
> Napper and to tell you the truth I don't think I would be a very good
> passenger. Dale, the fellow that owned my BB before me owned her for
> nine years. He said that the first time the wife drove the BB the
> younger son wanted to ride along but apparently lacked some
> confidence in the mothers driving skills. His solution was to dawn
> his bicycle helmet and climb into the one closet. This really
> tickled my funny bone. I will think of that story most every time I
> take her out.
>
> John Heckman
> central Pa
> 1973 FC "The Big Napper"
>
>
> >
> > Oh, on the gas discount, I use a card that gives 3% off all gas-
> station
> > purchases up to $500 a month, and that's all I use that card for
> and I pay
> > it off each month. Most places don't give 9c a gallon off for
> cash, at
> > least not around here
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2007 4:10 PM, Ryan Wright wrote:
> >
> > > Dorn,
> > >
> > >
> > > > My favorite form of financing is the periodic credit card deals
> of 0%
> > > for a
> > > > year or so on balance transfers. If the fee has a cap, which
> they always
> > > > did until lately and some do still, I just take the money and
> put it in
> > > my
> > > > savings account at 4.75% $90 to borrow $19,000 for 12 months
> and earn
> > > > almost $1000 in interest... Who would turn that down?
> > >
> > > That all works great until the credit card company "forgets" to
> apply
> > > your payment. I used to play similar games - until Citibank
> > > conveniently botched a payment I made. They raised my interest
> rate
> > > from 0% to 36%, tacked on a couple hundred bucks in fees and over
> > > $1,500 in interest charges by the time we got it resolved - and
> the
> > > whole situation was their fault, not mine.
> > >
> > > It took dozens of phone calls, complaints to the BBB and state
> > > attorney generals - countless hours of my time - to resolve. I
> did get
> > > all of the bogus charges and fees credited back and my interest
> rate
> > > reset properly, but the hassle was not worth the money.
> > >
> > > As it turns out, this is a relatively common practice amongst
> credit
> > > card issuers. Now I avoid these people like the plague. I also
> get a
> > > nice little discount when I pay cash for my coach fuel instead of
> > > whipping out the plastic.
> > >
> > > -Ryan
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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