Want to buy Bluebird

[bubblerboy64]

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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