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I know what you mean about the price of fuel here - feckin ridiculous !
It's not that many years ago, when I had a Series III Land Rover, that it cost exactly £15 to fill the 10 gallon tank - now it would cost around £52 !!!
My camper van has a 15 (Imperial) gallon tank, and it really hurts to fill that one - especially at an average of 24 mpg !!!
 

24mpg wow thats an eco car compared to the Merc when I give it some welly. Yesterday when I was doing what we shall call a braking test 8) I saw 4.5mpg on the trip computer.
 
In that case, and especially considering that my van is basically carrying a house on its back, my fuel consumption is rather good !
Of course, that figure is if I'm able to maintain a steady 50 to 55 mph - anything over that (which can get scary, and a written request to stop is required!), and the mpg drops to around 17 !
I do remember when I used to rally a Mk1 Escort, back in the days when fuel was less than 25 PENCE per gallon, when it got around 25 mpg if driven sedately, but 8 to 9 mpg when driven with some welly !
Ah, happy days !!
 
1st time I ever drove a borrowed Campervan I had to do an emergency stop and all you could hear from the back was Crash, Clunk, Shatter, Tinkle, Thump as everything in the back tried to get to the front :lol:

Luckily the set of cutlery that hit the back of my head was Woolworths finest plastic.
 
tomo pauk said:
Fast - have you thought about installing the LPG on the CLK?
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If it was a long term car and it was the only car I had I would certainly think about it but this is just a toy which I will play with for a bit and then move it on. My partners car is a dull as ditchwater Toyota diesel estate so any of the boring stuff she gets to drive.
 

Yep, learned that lesson the day I picked it up at the end of April. There was a large, flat screen TV included, which I didn't know about until tear r'sing around a bend on a Yorkshire country lane. That's when the TV revealed itself, when it flew off one of the rear bench seats onto the floor, followed by the fridge door crashing open, and one of the draws impersonating an organ stop !
Since then, everything is locked/taped/tied/wedged as needed !
Oh, and I found that a rally-style four wheel drift in a 2 ton campervan isn't really fun !!!
 
I p/u a new truck for me at least a 1989 F-150 302cid 5spd manual with only 82K original miles.I am cutting loose the 78 Chevy Stepside for $1500 which the buyer get's another bed, door,new windshield,lights etc I have collected over the years.I am into the Ford for $1200 out of pocket with the sale of the Chevy not to bad.I tell ya though the power ban between the ole 6cyl(torque) manual clutch as oppose to the 8cyl(rpm) hyd clutch is night and day.
 
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