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05-29-2009, 11:51 PM
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
I pity the fool...
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'00 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 Highly Modified
'04 Jeep Grand Cherokee- wife won't let me modify it. :-(
Does anyone really read this stuff other than surfgeek?
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05-30-2009, 06:59 AM
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Location: Helena, Montana
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
If there were no Sportsmobiles, I think I would be considerably wealthier than my present impoverished state.
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2006 Baja Tan SMB 4X4 EB50 PH 6LPSD
Mohawk Royalex Solo 14 foot canoe (light white-water)
Mad River Kevlar Explorer 17 foot canoe (flat water)
Dagger Royalex Legend 16 foot canoe (white-water)
Maravia New Wave 13.5 foot raft (fishing and white-water)
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05-30-2009, 09:22 AM
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Location: Garrison, NY
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
I guess I'd have to join Weight Watchers so I could fit in a VW Westy? (And leave the back hatch open for my size 13's to hang out.) That being said, I wouldn't have my SMB today if I didn't have such great memories camping in our neighbors VW Bus camper as a child of the 70's.
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Pueblo Gold Ford EB 350 v10 with EB 50 floor plan & Quigley 4x4 from Huntington (aka: Minerva)
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05-30-2009, 11:52 AM
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Location: Normandy Park, WA
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
The irony of this thread for those of us who love our diesels is I followed the link about the transit vans to the Ford website and under the E-Series vans they no longer list a diesel engine
http://www.fordvehicles.com/trucks/eser ... res/specs/
Does this mean they have dropped the diesel for 2009?
John
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05-30-2009, 12:23 PM
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Location: Seattle, WA
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
A friend of mine is converting a 6WD Volvo C303 ex-firetruck to be a Sportsmobile-like camper vehicle with a penthouse top he's engineering himself:
http://www.trog.us/
As much as I drool over real military vans & trucks like the Pinzgauer, Unimog, Volvo, FC Land Rover (or even the Hummer H1), I've come to realize that as even though I complain about the Sportsmobile's ride, these other vehicles are all much slower and noisier on the highway -- where, realistically, I spend most of my driving time, just getting to and from the fun stuff.
Here's a photo I like ( not mine, and I'm afraid I forgot who originally posted it -- sorry!) showing a VW, Pinzgauer, and Sportsmobile together:
-- Geoff
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05-30-2009, 10:05 PM
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Location: santa barbara
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
That photo is mine. Of those 3 only the SMB currently remains in my stable. I still have a syncro as well but not the one pictured.
If I did not have the SMB I think I'd buy a early 80's mercedes van and put a cummins or duramax motor and trans in it and convert it to 4x4. I used to have a '82 Mercedes firetruck that came over from Germany. It was great except for that it would not go over 55mph. Gutless wonder like most european vans.
On another note I have recently seen several new Sprinter ambulances on the streets in Santa Barbara.
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'05 EB350 6.0 4x4
Homebuilt Interior
Santa Barbara Ca
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06-01-2009, 03:58 PM
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Location: Baja Whenever Possible
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
This is an easy one for me. First off, I'd start out with a Chevy C4500 crew cab 4x4 chassis (Duramax, Allison trans) and add a pop up 11' camper (Alaskan, perhaps... perhaps a different one). for example. here's a C4500 with a Monroe body conversion.
This one is just up in WA and only $74k. Look how it dwarfs the Express vans. Add a $20-30K pop up camper and, arguably, you'd have a better off-road vehicle than any of us here.
Thing is, it wouldn't exactly be a daily driver like our SMBs can be. And I thought my SMB was hard to park.
Oh, don't think I haven't run this by the wife already. She was all thumbs up. Of course, not going to do this, but it answers Jage's question.
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06-02-2009, 01:44 PM
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Location: Southwestern Colorado
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Re: What if there were no SMBs?
I liked the quigley conversion on the Pleasureway that was in the classified section.
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