"The Idiot's guide"... I went through two of them. Seems they are hard to keep clean. Split window busses are simple, beautiful, and easy to fix, but you have to. All the time. Fully loaded, 35 miles per hour on long hills is normal, and you sort of look forward to 'em so you can get some reading done (usually the idiots guide for the next problem that is surfacing rapidly...).

Volvos are great! That is, if you like to spend big money on parts... but they go and go and go... Not so good on gas mileage though.. Equipment LOVES to ride in the Volvo!

I now have a little PU, with a crew cap, a canopy, and a decent motor. It is fast, reliable, and it gets 30 mpg on the open road. The crew cab is nice, cause the instruments can ride with the climate control, and the rest of the music stuff goes in back. Quite OK fine. Needs a better stereo tho...ttr