Hey, any body wanna show off their car, truck or SUV?

[FredRydr]

The wife gets the new cars. As for me, my four-wheel-frivolities are in the past and utility is uppermost. I've put over 327,000mi/526,000km on this '07 Swiss-Army-knife of a car, and my mechanic's opinion is that so long as I continue my standard of care, I can go many more. When a colleague and I travel to pen shows, we always favor the Volvo instead of his Chevy Tahoe, because we can load the cargo area with our boxes of inventory full to the ceiling while still keeping fuel expense low. Without complaint, the 2.5L motor pulls loads of firewood across town or pairs of middleweight adventure bikes across the USA and Canada.

Bicycle rack on the back at Pine Grove Furnace State Park, Pennsylvania USA:

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That's a riding buddy sitting on my trailer in Canyon City, Colorado USA, with my F800GS and his DL650:

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Past that now and heading for 400,000 miles:

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