Free Transpo To Elio Factory Pick-up...yea It Works !

[bebopag]

However...for Adventuresome ONLY !
Plus, being good conversationalist helps.

bop goes to a welder friend who cuts a used - olive drab Army Surplus metal "jerrycan" vertically-in-half. Two halves measuring 18"h x 13"w x 3-1/2"d each. Then he welds onto one side of "jerrycan" halves two small hinges (placed parallel about 10" apart). On other side...welds one small simple hinge closure latch and latch receptacle. Thus constructing a secured/enclosed DIY jerrycan suitcase.
Place enough clothes, rainwear and toiletries for two, three or four day trip.
Key operational element...for you to look clean: wash, dress respectfully, and shave daily.
Have someone drop you on outskirts of your community and...start walking toward Shreveport.
On hearing approaching vehicle keep on walking, but look over your left shoulder and hold out your free handed thumb.
Most good Samarians (minded suddenly of your possible out-of-gas plight) will slow, check you out and sympathizingly STOP.
It's then up to you to explain you sure would appreciate a ride (for as far as they're going toward Shreveport, Louisiana).
You're hitching a ride to pick up your new auto/trike; 84mpg and $6,800 topic should stimulate enough interest to get you a good ride.
So, what's in the jerrycan ?
Well, your DIY suitcase is for clothes and necessary toiletries.
Oh, by the way, the jerrycan (as a functional gas can) could hold 5.3 gallons of gas; enough gas to take you and your new Elio...450 miles back home.
Elio's 8 gal. tank will get you 672 hwy miles...without a fill-up
You should be able to talk about Elio for say, 20-30 minutes...just to establish your bona-fides as a proud new owner.
P.S.
German engineer developed the "jerrycan" in 1937. British and American Army copied and massed produced.
Famous quote from WWII U.S. President FDR...
"Without these (jerry) cans it would have been impossible for our armies to cut their way across France at lightning pace which exceeded the German Blitzkrieg of 1940."
The 1930's VW "Beetle" was also was first known as The People's Car.
Elio...The American Enlightenment Car.

 

[Folks]

However...for Adventuresome ONLY !
Plus, being good conversationalist helps.

bop goes to a welder friend who cuts a used - olive drab Army Surplus metal "jerrycan" vertically-in-half. Two halves measuring 18"h x 13"w x 3-1/2"d each. Then he welds onto one side of "jerrycan" halves two small hinges (placed parallel abour 10" apart). On other side...welds one small simple hinge closure latch and latch receptacle. Thus constructing a enclosed DIY jerrycan suitcase.
Place enough clothes, rainwear and toiletries for two, three or four day trip.
Key operational element...for you to look clean: wash, dress respectfully, and shave daily.
Have someone drop you on outskirts of your community and...start walking toward Shreveport.
On hearing approaching vehicle keep on walking, but look over your left shoulder and hold out your free handed thumb.
Most good Samarians (minded suddenly of your possible out-of-gas plight) will slow, check you out and sympathizingly STOP.
It's then up to you to explain you sure would appreciate a ride (for as far as they're going toward Shreveport, Louisiana).
You're hitching a ride to pick up your new auto/trike; 84mpg and $6,800 topic should stimulate enough interest to get you a good ride.
So, what's in the jerrycan ?
Well, your DIY suitcase is for clothes and necessary toiletries.
Oh, by the way, the jerrycan (as a functional gas can) could hold 5.3 gallons of gas; enough gas to take you and your new Elio...450 miles back home.
You should be able to talk about Elio for 20-30 minutes...just to establish your bona-fides as a proud new owner.
P.S.
German engineer developed the "jerrycan" in 1937. British and American Army copied and massed produced.
Famous quote from WWII U.S. President FDR...
"Without these (jerry) cans it would have been impossible for our armies to cut their way across France at lightning pace which exceeded the German Blitzkrieg of 1940."
The 1930's VW "Beetle" was also was first known as The People's Car.
Elio...The Enlightenment Car.

Hey whats wrong with cutting one of those big red plastic cans from the hardware store up instead. I think it was Eisenhower who gave credit to the deuce and a half, the C47 and the Us government issued (GI) that did the trick.

Of course I think a bus ticket is about $65 from me to there. A factory courtesy bus or van out the Airport or bus stations might be the thicket when they start to roll off the production line.

 

[Jay3wheel]

Hey whats wrong with cutting one of those big red plastic cans from the hardware store up instead. I think it was Eisenhower who gave credit to the deuce and a half, the C47 and the Us government issued (GI) that did the trick.

Of course I think a bus ticket is about $65 from me to there. A factory courtesy bus or van out the Airport or bus stations might be the thicket when they start to roll off the production line.

Were you there when Eisenhower said this?

 

[Folks]

Were you there when Eisenhower said this?

I don't remember. LOL I remember when he went on the radio and announced the cessation of hostilities with the North Koreans. Lots of people don't know that we technically are still at war with them. But then again I can't figure the desperation and depravity it took to vote for the big "O"either.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

I don't remember. LOL I remember when he went on the radio and announced the cessation of hostilities with the North Koreans. Lots of people don't know that we technically are still at war with them. But then again I can't figure the desperation and depravity it took to vote for the big "O"either.

BTW we are still technically at war with the Seminole Nation (Native American tribe here in Florida) who now happen to be doing very well with their casino(s)

 

[outsydthebox]

The "Jerry can suitcase" is a cool idea. Hitchhiking...not so cool. Too many unstable people on our roadways. I would be more inclined to take the bus one-way, and pitch a tent on that perfectly manicured lawn that's attached to the factory!

 

[Folks]

The "Jerry can suitcase" is a cool idea. Hitchhiking...not so cool. Too many unstable people on our roadways. I would be more inclined to take the bus one-way, and pitch a tent on that perfectly manicured lawn that's attached to the factory!

Yeah. That would be just my luck to hitch a ride with some nutbag who needed little extra gasoline for his fertilizer and all I'd have is some smelly underwear in there.

 

[Folks]

BTW we are still technically at war with the Seminole Nation (Native American tribe here in Florida) who now happen to be doing very well with their casino(s)

Dad gum, RU. Can't you just go to one of those casinos and just tell them your sorry and make that the end of it?

 

[RUCRAYZE]

Dad gum, RU. Can't you just go to one of those casinos and just tell them your sorry and make that the end of it?

hummmm i state a fact, as the post stated about n korea, but i don't see going to n korea to tell them you are sorry and make that the end of it?

 

[hawg_ryder]

I don't remember. LOL I remember when he went on the radio and announced the cessation of hostilities with the North Koreans. Lots of people don't know that we technically are still at war with them. But then again I can't figure the desperation and depravity it took to vote for the big "O"either.

Hidy Folks,

Sorry to say but the U.S. has never been in a legal declared war with North Korea... The U.S. has only been in "Formally Declared Wars" five times... The rest have been "military engagements" approved and funded by Congress or United Nations military actions (U.N. Security Council) that were funded and supported by the U.S. You know we send in "Military Advisors"... You are correct that no formal peace treaty has ever been worked out between North and South Korea... An Armistice was signed in 1953 declaring a "cessation of hostilities" and POW's were repatriated but that's about as far as it went...
Interesting stuff... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States

h_r