Pro's and Con's SP to PT

[Ryan Wright]

Fuel costs are definitely an issue. We were looking at a vacation 600
miles away. OK, not a bad drive, but 1200 miles round trip is 240
gallons of diesel in my PT-40. That's a thousand bucks. OK, still not
a huge deal, it's a vacation, right? Nope, family wanted to do it on a
3 day weekend. Now I have to put my foot down. I'm not spending a
thousand bucks on fuel for a 3 day mini-vacation when half of the time
will be spent on the road! I'll take a week off work and we can go on
a week long vacation and now it makes sense.

With the old 12mpg gas powered Travco it was no problem, let's go,
fuel costs don't even enter into the equation.

So, most of our trips are very short distance wise. We take weekend
trips ~150 miles away regularly and I don't even worry about the cost
of fuel for those. In fact I usually fuel up out of state on the way
home and save myself a few bucks, diesel was 30 cents cheaper per
gallon last weekend in Idaho. Can't remember the last time I bought
fuel locally. God bless my PT-40's 300 gallon tank...

-Ryan
'86 PT-40 8V92

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Alan Hetzel wrote:
> While a PT42 sure would be nice for the space, the fuel costs *are* at least
> some
> consideration for us, since we tend to go on high-mileage short-duration
> trips with it
> (Atlanta-Omaha r/t for turkey day, by example)
> and 9ish mpg (220ish gals) is much less painful than 4ish (500ish gals)