12-19-2006, 05:08 AM
[quote incognegro]so what family size car/truck can fit half-sheets of plywood or long boards? count out all those Civics/Corollas/Yaris/Prius econo-cars.
this past summer we brought 3 or 4 loads of flagstone for our back yard "patio" area. you should have seen the back end of the 1997 Grand Cherokee! i can't imagine how many trips to & from the stone yard it would have taken in a small or medium-sized car. even in a Forester, how much can you load up the back?
sometimes you need a big vehicle to bring home stuff like that from Home Depot and places like that... not to drive 1 kid to school, or yourself to work. if you have to have 1 vehicle, it's got to be one that does everything you need.
Too bad there aren't really cheap rental trucks available for that kind of thing.
Especially convenient ones, right at the HD.
this past summer we brought 3 or 4 loads of flagstone for our back yard "patio" area. you should have seen the back end of the 1997 Grand Cherokee! i can't imagine how many trips to & from the stone yard it would have taken in a small or medium-sized car. even in a Forester, how much can you load up the back?
sometimes you need a big vehicle to bring home stuff like that from Home Depot and places like that... not to drive 1 kid to school, or yourself to work. if you have to have 1 vehicle, it's got to be one that does everything you need.
Too bad there aren't really cheap rental trucks available for that kind of thing.
Especially convenient ones, right at the HD.