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Re: Other: gas mileage while car topping?
By:Tim
Date: 6/3/2008, 8:49 am
In Response To: Other: gas mileage while car topping? (Bill Hamm)

: With the current gas prices anyone ever compute the difference in gas mileage
: in driving your car with a kayak on the roof vs. without it? I've never
: bothered and now am faced with a 1000+ mile trip with a yak on the roof.

: Bill H.

When I haul my canoe (still working on my stripper... almost ready to fiberglass.) I think I get an increase in gas mileage...

Of course my 1994 Doge Ram truck usually gets about 12 MPG.
If I position the canoe right it makes the truck look like those cycling helmets you see in the olympics...

Maybe if I put a fresh coat of wax on the rust I can get it up to 13 MPG or so...

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Other: gas mileage while car topping?
Bill Hamm -- 6/2/2008, 5:57 pm
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Tom Yost -- 6/9/2008, 9:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/23/2008, 2:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2008, 4:53 am
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Lucky -- 6/3/2008, 10:27 am
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george jung -- 6/3/2008, 2:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 12:41 am
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Sodbuster -- 6/4/2008, 11:20 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 2:23 pm
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Sodbuster -- 6/4/2008, 3:19 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 6/3/2008, 9:08 am
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Bj�rn Thomasson -- 6/4/2008, 5:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:30 am
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Bjorn Thomasson -- 6/5/2008, 10:56 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 6/5/2008, 9:43 am
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Tim -- 6/3/2008, 8:49 am
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Doug Smith -- 6/3/2008, 2:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2008, 5:03 pm
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Doug Smith -- 6/4/2008, 6:08 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:26 am
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John Monroe -- 6/5/2008, 3:51 am
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John Monroe -- 6/3/2008, 1:11 am
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Kim -- 6/3/2008, 5:38 am
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John Monroe -- 6/4/2008, 3:38 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2008, 1:48 am
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