[Artemisia] sca auto (with horses)

Tue Oct 9 09:32:34 CDT 2007

Aurelia,

Quantity has a quality all it's own, doesn't it.

Marten

----- Original Message ----
From: Auraelia de Medici <auraeliade at yahoo.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 3:57:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] sca auto (with horses)

This summer, we got our Dream Vehicle to pull the horse trailer, but it has served as a great SCA hauler, too.  We picked up the 2007 Toyota Tundra 8.5 iForce engine.  It drives like a car, has a sharp turning radius, and pulls everything we've thrown at it so far.  This includes a fully loaded down 3/4 ton diseal truck that broke down on the way home from Uprising.  It has the extended cab, and it comes with actual side doors.  This is NOT the crew cab, just the extended.  The seats in the back are roomy and you can raise them if you're hauling gear and not passengers.  We're getting about 18 mpg on the highway.  We have been tickled with this big truck since day one (we got it in May) and have absolutely no regrets spending a bit more.  Although, we found out that with once you start adding features to other brands trucks, the price begins to equalize out.

We have a little basic Toyota 4X4 pickup that we bought back in 1995.  It's got nearly 112,000 miles without any significant work.  Good gas milage and handles road conditions very well.  It's 4W, 4 cyl with a topper that has side windows that open.  It's been great.  Yes, they do cost a bit more, but they rarely need expensive repairs, run for hundreds of thousands of miles and are just all around great little vehicles.  We'll probably need to sell our little truck someday, but I'm told it's still worth about $7,600.  How about that for holding value?

Lady Auraelia de Medici, Cd'O

----- Original Message ----
From: Sondra Gibson <sgibson at edulog.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 3:20:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] sca auto (with mini horse)

LOL!  I've seen that done with llamas.  At one show I watched a lady unload
4 adult llamas from a van - and reload them at the end of the show.   The
darn things just crawled in on their knees!  I wish mine were that
civilized!  

My 'dream auto' would be a small (Tacoma?) Toyota extended cab 4W, 6 cyl.
truck with a topper that has side windows that open.....  

Gefjon

-----Original Message-----
From: artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org
[mailto:artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org]On Behalf Of Kim Rule
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:17 PM
To: 'Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list'
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] sca auto

It was really funny when I bought an Astro van...I had a tape measure
and measured how tall it was...took it for a drive, signed the papers,
and then brought Bilbo the miniature horse back inside of it to show it
off!!!  You should have seen the face of the sales man!  Bilbo used to
jump in and out of that thing like a dog!  I miss that van...

I would go to horse events, pull up in the van, unload two horses, a
cart, harness and everything else I needed out of it.  Horse people
would gather and watch me unload!  I went to many horse shows like that.
The gas mileage was terrific...especially compared to a truck pulling a
horse trailer.  

My husband wouldn't let me get another one though...he didn't like what
the horses did to the inside of the van!  :oP  

Una

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