RW> $300,000, 100.000, 50,000 liability - $189 Rodeo and $66 Silverado...
 
I'll check with them again, but I'm pretty sure it's the same price no matter what.
 
RW> $500 liability bottom line for the Rodeo, $400 w/full coverage bottom
RW> line for the Silveado...
 
I'm paying about $600 per year for liability.
 
RW> They were both assembled in the same plant in Indiana. However, Rodeo
RW> parts have always cost more than the Silverado.
 
Shipping fees, import duty fees... unless the parts are made here.
 
RW> We almost had French Toast for dinner last night. Had I not already had
RW> my mind set on veggie and egg burritos...
 
I'm skipping it tonight and for the next four nights.  Gotta lose a few
pounds for an upcoming tournament.
 
RW> I like obscenities, I always vote them #1. ..|.
RW> .
 
I've gotten that sign, too.  (-:[  NEVER on purpose, however.  It's not my
fault if a motorist doesn't know what "YIELD" means, but I am on
the lookout for them anyway.
 
RW> You mean like tornado weather? Yeup...more than once.
 
And you like that?  Maybe you'd calm down taking a ride with my daughter.
Just last night I told her the next time I go somewhere with her and the
kids she'd have to furnish a blindfold for me.
 
RW> Yes, but the census won't be until next year, 2010.
 
GOTCHA!  (-:
 
RW> Like you, I also got to grow with the city, once I made it to one...
 
IT was nice early on, wasn't it?
 
RW> No doubt. My great-great-grandfather Witt came through New Orleans to
RW> settle in Illinois as a small boy.
 
I think I told you my paternal great grandfather and grandmother came from
London and my maternal grandfather came from Frankfort or Stuttgart (I can
never remember which) and grandmother from somewhere in France.
 
RW> Yeup...been there a couple of times. Great goodies there.
 
Expensive, though.  The items on their web site didn't show a chocolate
cake or potato salad.
 
RW> In that case, at the beginning of the Comal in Landa Park, there's a
RW> wading pool you can start in. :o)
 
ROTFL!
 
RW> Better not wait too long then.
 
Going in Monday.  My FAV X-SIL is getting her daughter's Mercedes and I
asked if she would sell her car to me.  I have a feeling mine could be in
the shop for awhile, especially if I decide to go back to air suspension.
 
RW> They still do.
 
I don't remember my '58 Plymouth sounding that way, but that was 40 years ago.
 
RW> Heh...try working in a union shop as a non-union member. Boeing was a
RW> closed shop, but I refused to join...in order to keep me out of their
RW> sights, the company moved me around until there was no place else to go.
RW> That let me out of a one year contract with them after 5 months.
 
You might have been better off at Boeing.
 
RW> I would have liked that too.
 
I really did, but businesses aren't run the way this one was run anymore.
 
RW> Yeup...and then I stopped and looked at a 2002 Corvette this morning.
RW> Very tempting...
 
The price tag would keep me away.  When I lived in Mandeville, the Lincoln
dealer there had a 2 year old Dodge Viper for sale.  Only $34K, but I was a
little short on cash that day.
 
RW> LOL! That's a mechanic for you. My dad's cars were always in need of
RW> something or other. After a day of working on customer cars, they don't
RW> want to see another one until the next time they have to go to work.
 
He hasn't done much this week except work in his backyard garden.  He could
have offered to work on my car and didn't, but it's moot now because I
would have refused.
 
RW> Three options. The base model comes with a 3.6L V6 which produces 300hp
RW> and gets 29mpg. Then there's the 6.2L V8 with 400hp and a six speed
RW> auto matic that gets 25mpg and the Z28 with a 6.2L V8 and 450hp that
RW> also gets 25mpg, but comes with a six speed manual transmission. My 98
RW> makes the same 'rear wheel' HP from a 5.7L as the new six, and also gets
RW> 25mpg w/six speed transmission...5th and 6th gear are overdrives.
 
I'll take the second option if it's positraction.
 
RW> My friend Harry advises against that Explorer too. BTW, when you drive a
RW> big vehicle like the Lincoln, you have roadside service come out and
RW> change the tire. They make one similar to the Chevy Avalance, a station
RW> wagon and pickup rolled into one.
 
Tell Harry thanks.  Someone else told me the same thing.  The Avalanche is
too big for what I want.  I'd like to have something the size of the
Explorer and maybe I'd be better off with the Land Rover (NOT!).
 
RW> You certainly don't want to talk to the same saleman when you're dealing.
 
No, I don't.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... I can walk on water, but I stagger on alcohol.
--- D'Bridge 3.26