[LCML] Long term search

[Dominic von Stösser]

On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Herb Peyerl wrote:

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> On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Kevin Cooney wrote:
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>> This one looks to be in fairly decent shape.
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>> http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/ctd/2107899495.html
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> Wow.  All that money and you still end up with a steering box in harms way and a bumper fully prepared to guide all harm right to your steering box...
> 
> For the life of me, I will never understand the appeal of those steering boxes.

While we're at it:

All that money, and the sole jerry can is made of plastic and mounted on the rear bumper? Really?

With all that space for a second tank, a jerry can?Pfft. 

Methinks the jerry can is there purely for "lookit me and how rugged and such I am" effect, rather than for actual range. Aside from anything else, that jerry can's contents are probably only able to move the truck what, eight feet?

d

(who has deeply-held opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of the NATO-pattern jerry can and its message for the world)