nick, great adventure -- been there, done
that.
regarding your frame/title mismatch.
*in missouri*, the inspectors don't even
know about the number stamped into
the frame. on my vehicle, they were looking
around the windshield for the vin sticker.
i pointed to the dash mounted plate; it
matched the title; and they were happy.
ray harder
btw, i do have a title and dash plate
that might be useful someday -- 55 and 69.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Nick Eckert wrote:
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:42:18 -0700
> From: Nick Eckert <sboarder@gte.net>
> Reply-To: mendo_recce@fourfold.org
> To: mendo_Recce@fourfold.org
> Cc: pcrc@lists.british-steel.org, lro@works.team.net
> Subject: Nick's New Mexico Adventure
>
> The following is a tale of my adventuresome weekend to New Mexico to
> pick-up the donor vehicle for my 1961 hybrid project.
>
> Friday:
>
> Left Camp Pendleton at 2:04pm driving a borrowed F-150 with a 16' trailer
> heading for Santa Fe, New Mexico. Got stuck for two hours on the 91 freeway
> before getting to the 15. Once I got on the 15 it was smooth cruising.
> Stopped for dinner (NOTE for Ben: Did NOT eat at Tommy's) in Barstow and
> filled up the dual tanks. Made Flagstaff, Arizona around 10:30pm filled-up
> the tanks, Wahoo 14.8 mpg, back on the road. Crossed the Arizona-New
> Mexico state line at 3am and took a one hour power nap at the first rest
> area.
>
> Saturday:
>
> Got up at 4am and hit the road. I had a goal..I wanted to make Santa Fe
> by 8am. I got into Santa Fe at 8:30, called the guy selling me the Rover
> and waited for him to meet me. We drove up to his place and spent about an
> hour loading it onto the trailer. Back on the road about 10am. Stopped
> for fuel in Albuquerque. $1.245 per gallon, (Why is fuel .40 cents cheaper
> in NM?),(Ok all the Brits on the list are fuming now that fuel is soooo
> cheap in the colony). Back on the road. Decide I want to eat dinner in
> Flagstaff and make that my destination. Don't remember where I stopped for
> fuel next but my mileage has dropped off to 11.68 mpg. IT IS REALLY KEWL
> SEEING THE SII GRILL IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR! :-) I make Flagstaff at
> 6:30 and grab a shower at the Sinclair Little America. I highly recommend
> them, the nicest showers I have ever had at a truck stop. After the shower
> I head into Old Town Flagstaff and find an Irish pub and watch Duke stomp
> Maryland while having a Guinness and a 1 pound steak that was awesome. Back
> on the road at 9pm and heading West trying to make the California border
> before stopping for a nap. I didn't quite make the border and settled for
> a K-Mart parking lot about 40 miles short around 11pm. How white trashy
> can I get?
>
> Sunday:
>
> The real adventure begins, California Drivers. I get up around 4am, top
> off the front fuel tank and hit the road. Cross into California and eat
> breakfast at Barstow. I get back on the road and suddenly I realize
> everyone is driving way too fast. As I head down the pass heading towards
> LA I watch a car pass me then go out of control and over the edge into the
> abyss. What a mess. F**king California drivers. It's about the same way
> heading all the way down the I-15. Foggy and people driving at about
> 90mph. I make it to Camp Pendleton at 11am, off load the rover, return the
> trailer, than back to futz with the rover.
>
> Decide to check the chassis ID# against the title. It's not the same.
> This is going to be a nightmare to straighten out. Tomorrow I will deal
> with that. Now to go home and take a nap.
>
> What a trip...1700 miles...123 gallons of fuel...6 hours of sleep...3
> meals...a title for a vehicle I don't have and a vehicle that I don't have a
> title for.
>
> I look on the bright side, according to the New Mexico DMV neither vehicle
> exist. They have been purged from their records. According to the
> Washington DMV I can register the vehicle, but I have to wait three years
> for the title and do a stolen vehicle search for it (NO I AM NOT TELLING YOU
> THE ID NUMBER ;-)) And I will still be left with a title that maybe I can
> find a use for down the road...hmmmmmm.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick
> 1972 SIII 'Grommit'
> 1961 SII Turbo Diesel Coil Hybrid Project 'yet to be named'
>
>
>
Sincerely,
Ray Harder
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