I once read a book titled "The Berkley To Boston Forty
Brick Lost Bag Blues", yes, it was about college
student pot dealers. Very funny.
Enjoy!
daniel ... "Liesel" 84 300D Turbo
--- BStromsoe <bstromsoe@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hmmm, "Boston to Burbank" seems like a catchy title
> for a screenplay about two old geezers with just a
> few months to live who are taking the trip of their
> life, or was that Thelma and Louise that just drove
> by?
>
> brian
>
> audiolaw@aol.com wrote:
> These stories make an old man start to get
> nostalgic.
>
> Back in 1980, the network made me an offer.
> So I moved from Boston to Burbank. My driver was a
> 1977 non-turbo diesel Rabbit. I had a hitch put on
> it then went and got the biggest box trailer
> JarTran (remember them) would rent me.
>
> That Rabbit hauled that JarTran trailer, with
> most of what I owned in it, accross the country
> from Boston to Burbank. The little Rabbit towing
> the big JarTran looked like a semitrailer rig that
> got washed in hot water and shrunk down. It got
> laughed at every time I pulled into a truck stop to
> fuel up.
>
> But it came across the country, over every
> mountain range (at about the same pace as some of
> the big rigs). I'm sure that VW would never have
> approved of towing that size or weight of trailer.
> Averaged about 30 mpg on that trip.
>
> That little Rabbit lasted for years after that
> adventure.
>
> If the VW could do it, I expect that our benz's
> can do it. The hitch on my '81 SD is a class I,
> bolted through the belly pan of the trunk. The
> real problem with it is my rear is too low, and the
> hitch drags on road dips and curb crossings.
>
> Tom
>
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> brian from la verne, ca
>
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