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K

Kestrel in CT

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Having a "frugal-with-fuel motor" and "completely satisfactory for farmers" I found this ad in an old 1918 Country Gentleman magazine. Try throwing a roll of fencing in any modern sedan now... You can barely get a few bags of groceries in.
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John North Willys took over the company-it
became WILLYS-OVERLAND and made Jeep vehicles
in WW II, was purchased by Henry J. Kaiser,
and made Kaiser, Frazer, Henry J, Jeep vehicles
into the 60s.
 
The first car in our family was my grandfather's 1917, Franklin. It cost about $3500, had an air-cooled in-line 6 cylinder engine. The sheet metal was aluminum. Part of the frame was wood reinforced with steel about 3/16 thick. The Pioneer Museum in NE and the Ford Museum in MI each have a Franklin from that period.
 
My sister had a geo metro. She has carried hundreds of those big grain bags. She has brought 2 big rolls of fencing at a time home with it.

Worst was she brought 4 sheep home in it one time. What a mess.

I have a little toyota with a hatch, have had a few transmissions and other junk in it. Towed a 4 rotor 16 ft tedder home last week. Welding gas bottles sitting in it right now.
 
I had a Geo metro, 40+ mpg. I once loaded 6 bags of cement into mine, along with 200lb me and a coworker who weighed in at 350+. It was slow, but it got us home.
 
'73 to '87 Chevy pickup box sides unbolt and come off. I once hauled an 8' one in the back of a Pinto wagon.

The Pinto wagons weren't a bad little car. It was the Runabouts with their gas tank problem that gave all Pintos a bad name. The wagons were built different and didn't have the gas tank problem.
 
Went to an auction with a friend of mine one time. It was a ways away and we thought that we'd better take my car instead of his truck to save on fuel. And we didn't really expect to buy anything anyway. After we'd filled the back of the car (98 VW Golf) with an industrial pot type sandblaster, 100' of 1" air hose, a large 2'x4' ish industrial radiator and various other sundry items I found a new 10ply Firestone tractor tire (10x24) for $25 which we tied to the roof and then drove home :) Sam
 
I've got a pair of winter-beater Subaru 4WD wagons (4WD, not AWD). I've hauled goats, firewood, fencing, weldling tanks, etc. in the back. Amazing little rigs and they get 26-28 MPG on the highway. They have transfercases with hi and low range, just like a truck and will go just about anywhere. Big minus is they rust so bad - old bodystyle Subaru Loyale wagons.

They ceased production in 1994, and I haven't found anything near as good that's been made since.
 
Gosh:: I think the GEO was made by GM. Maybe if GM started making them again the Congress would aprove their loan. Problem::: We didn't want them then.
 
My daughter had two Geo Prisms, built by Toyota in Calif. Very good cars, and were always rated at the top. She traded them off at about 90,000 miles each.
 
Some of these are soooo funny - the tire on the Golf, the 350-pounder friend etc. The wife got carried away at one auction and had to leave me there to guard stuff while she ferried 2 loads home [and one of them was in the PU...]
Dad's first car was a Stutz...but not one of the goll-durn'd stuff he kept that I had to mow around - grrrrrr. He traded it for an Overland. This would have been in the mid-thirty's.
 

Spook, I had one of those 3 cylinder metros when I was driving 65 miles each way to work. I liked to drive at 75-80MPH, which meant you pretty much just held your foot flat on the floor. It was lucky to get 40MPH. The final straw was when I was coming home one day into a 30MPH headwind and it topped out at 62MPH.

Definately fun to drive in the winter. Handled like a go cart in the snow/ice. 30MPH, Rip the E-brake, and do a 360 in the middle of the road and keep going (you have to understand the town I lived in, about 500 people and no traffic)
 
Never owned one of those but my one Chevy will hold about as much.

Lots of room in the back seat for your feet and more.

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Sam: Kind of rough on the little golf, aren't you. My dad used to go to the feed store with 59 Chevy Impalla, hauled home a ton of feed, standard load. He'd fill the trunk, about 8 - 100# bags as I recall, then 12 on top of trunk cover and fins.

He only kept it two years from new, then traded it for a new Impalla in 61. About the same time I bought a 58 binder pickup, and all of a sudden this new Impalla couldn't haul feed. I can only guess he realized how ugly the 59 Impalla, and didn't want anyone to start liking it. Before that he had 55 and 57 Belairs, he wouldn't haul feed on those, I guess the Farmall 300 was new enough back then, it was still a novelity to drive 3 miles to the feed store on the tractor.

Once I had the Binder, his loads incresed to 2.5 ton. That old Binder was a great bargaining tool, when I wanted the Impalla for courting.
 
My wife had a geo storm when we met. My youngest brother (20 years younger) learned every cuss word he knows from helping me work on it.
 
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