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Jmclendon
December 24th, 2016, 03:00 AM
Round about 750 pounds of dogs and gear (and a cooler full of beer, of course.)
120 mile trip and it sat on 50 the whole way. Pretty good result for its first big outing I reckon.

First photo is at the start. The second is just before my first post drive beer. We took it nice and easy. Just over 3 and a half hours overall.

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FetchMeAPepsi
December 24th, 2016, 03:10 AM
Looks great! Glad to hear she held up OK! You really got lucky finding that truck where you are. I'm electric blue with envy
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Jmclendon
December 24th, 2016, 03:15 AM
Looks great! Glad to hear she held up OK! You really got lucky finding that truck where you are. I'm electric blue with envy
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Funnily enough we passed an old Chevy stepside along the way. It was left hand drive also. Bit of a small world really.

Believe it or not we used to do this trip in a little VW golf.... Dogs and all lol

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TJ's GMC
December 24th, 2016, 04:40 AM
That's awesome! Glad the trip was a success! :welldone:
Jmclendon
December 24th, 2016, 06:57 AM
Halfway success.... We've still got to drive back in a couple of days lol
James
December 24th, 2016, 11:52 AM
Look great. Are you checking your gas mileage? Just wondering.
Jmclendon
December 24th, 2016, 08:52 PM
Pretty much a full tank. So around 10 mpg or so I think.

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fritz
December 26th, 2016, 07:30 PM
LM That sounds like a great time dogs and all! what breed of dogs do you have? Love your truck really special.

Merry Christmas to you!
Fritz
Jmclendon
January 3rd, 2017, 01:15 AM
We made it back safe and sound.... All of the dogs are some form of mutt LOL

They've got something over here called a 'Bull Arab' that's essentially a cross between a mastiff and whatever else was lying around. 1 of the 3 has a good deal of greyhound that's come out. Another looks like there's some Dane in him. The 3rd looks more like a Mastiff, but not quite as large (at about 80 lbs he's the runt of the 3).

They're great dogs. A bit of a handful though..... all rescues and all spoiled LOL