
This car is not going to be towing anywhere near that amount, but I can assure you that merging onto a highway is not an issue. With a trailer, or without.


dancam wrote:I still love my first car, it was 15 years old and rusty when i bought it, i never expected it to last since the guy i bought it from figured it was miled out. I did more stupid and crazy things in it than i can even remember. It finally finished rusting out after i drove it 9 1/2 years and 245,000km. I really wish i had taken care for the body rust, not driven it in lakes... and so on.
Its sitting in the back of my yard now. I really had wanted to make it to 500k and i have to decide if i will make it my winter beater and still try and do that or not.
Sheddie wrote:dancam wrote:But anyway, love your car! Can you still get parts for it? What kind of fuel milage do you get towing?
Hi Dan, thank you. Yes it is a lovely old car and apart from the paint getting a bit shabby is all original and in near new condition.
Parts; Fortunatly we have never needed many parts for it and the service parts like brakes and bearings etc are common enough. A few years ago I had to get a new power shaft made for the power steering, but that was a simple enough one to make. Most of the components like brakes, electrical, fuel, transmission etc are shared by a lot of the other manufacturers so if you know what you are looking for you can find it on a Jaguar, Rover, Austin or the like. Body parts would be the issue, the only way there is second hand or make something.
Fuel milage; With a Supersnipe you don't think much about that, you just fill it up and enjoy the drive.As the old saying went, "they could pass anything except a petrol station". They got that reputation mainly from the the big old monsters of the 1940s and '50s. The one I have, just touring on the highway will get 22 - 24 mpg, and puting the teardrop on the back won't effect that a lot. Towing our previous caravan around the South Island was a bit different, although it wasn't a lot bigger than the teardrop, it was 8ft wide and with the big flat front on it, we may as well have had a parachute out the back. But we were still getting about 16-18mpg. The old 1954 Supersnipe dad had was probably about that on its own.
Sheddie wrote:dancam wrote:I still love my first car, it was 15 years old and rusty when i bought it, i never expected it to last since the guy i bought it from figured it was miled out. I did more stupid and crazy things in it than i can even remember. It finally finished rusting out after i drove it 9 1/2 years and 245,000km. I really wish i had taken care for the body rust, not driven it in lakes... and so on.
Its sitting in the back of my yard now. I really had wanted to make it to 500k and i have to decide if i will make it my winter beater and still try and do that or not.
So Dan, what was your first car
KCStudly wrote:Nice location, AZK. Where is that?
Camp4Life wrote:Looks like Northern California. But I could be completely wrong considering I'm Canadian and have never been there lol
I'm just going by the scenery and the trees. My second guess would be AZ, hence the username.
KCStudly wrote:Both likely guesses, but I was hoping for something a little more specific.
Sheddie wrote:KCStudly wrote:Nice location, AZK. Where is that?Camp4Life wrote:Looks like Northern California. But I could be completely wrong considering I'm Canadian and have never been there lol
I'm just going by the scenery and the trees. My second guess would be AZ, hence the username.KCStudly wrote:Both likely guesses, but I was hoping for something a little more specific.
Hi Camp4life. What about this location. Can you guess where this one is. It was where the Yogi Bear Movie was shot.
Just north of Taupo on the Waikato River
"Filming took place on the Lake Whakamaru Reserve, Waikato, New Zealand, as it was winter in the northern hemisphere and to wait for summer would put the production end time to be six months longer than if in southern hemisphere". (Quote; thanks to Wikipedia).
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