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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Windfreeeek » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:55 am

I use 12 years of Rust warranty, 4 wheel drive and a LWB VW! Love it!
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Windfreeeek » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:57 am

and my friend uses a Mercedes, just without the Warranty!
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby b0jangl3 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:00 pm

can go anywhere with this. True island style and great on gas

and btw .. I dont fly Cab's ... :-)
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Neptune » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:50 am

Can't beat a Hummer H3 and a sunshade that can withstand 30+ knots!!
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Petro9 » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:29 am

20 m or bust wrote:Ur getting 17 mpg w/o racks. A lot should do that. My Rav 4 gets 28 mpg on the highway.
8litres for a 100km ~30mpg...not 17MPG
As 8 litres is close to 2 gallons and 100km ~62 miles. Still I think that your RAV's 28mpg is pretty good as you could fit more stuff than the SAAB.

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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby pndLA » Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:52 am

yeahhh... the bedford bus!
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Vin Stefanelli » Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:39 am

i think you'll all like the kite-rat-rod-shifter i stuck on my AWD safari/astro
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Vin Stefanelli » Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:44 am

thats an all wheeled drive safari that has traversed the deepest snow that NJ would offer last winter
AAAAAAAAAAnd the softest sand that i could find in Oakacroke
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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby calibra » Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:42 pm

I love This one i don´t know why, maybe because the pink colour our the babe....

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i also like the yellow...

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and Black...

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Re: The ultimate car for going to the beach

Postby Ted B » Tue Nov 02, 2010 8:24 pm

here is my latest Beach Car. it is a 2000 ford E350 That I converted to 4x4. She is lifted 12" has a barret jackson pearl white paint job, It has a dana 60 front end and a 7.3 liter turbo diesel engine and even with 35" tires it still gets 22-25mpg. Inside i am still working but now there is 2 stand up paddle boards 6 surfboards 10-12 kite boards and around 20 kites inside at all times just incase the conditions get right..later ted B
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