Not sure if it is an Adventure yet...

...but I am on a train to San Francisco. Should be there some time after 4 PM today. And I don't have a return ticket to Chicago. We'll see what happens, but if anyone knows about a Challenge Priced anything up or down the coast, I'm seriously considering driving home again. I'm a MoPar guy, but I also love the weird and the wagons. I was going to try to drive that LeMons Super Snipe back, but it needs just a bit too much for a drive home in the winter. I may just punt and snag another S series Saturn wagon. Stay tuned...

Cooter wrote: I may just punt and snag an S class Mercedes. Stay tuned...

FTFY

A Christmas adventure! I love it! Do you plan to camp in the city parks in a travel hammock? More infos.....

Cooter's California to Chicago Christmas Adventure!

In reply to smokindav:

Nah. I'm travelling with my 14 year old daughter. Pretty sure she wouldn't enjoy that.

Staying at the Hyatt in Emeryville tonight and tomorrow.

PMRacing wrote:

Cooter wrote: I may just punt and snag an S class Mercedes. Stay tuned...

FTFY

Not bloody likely. A sub-$2017 vehicle needs to be simple. Or reliable. Preferably both.

Happy hunting! Keep us posted so that we can join in vicariously.

I want to do a one way to Atlanta, South Florida or TX some day.

E55 AMG $4,500. We have a winner.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/5931485727.html

Texas is a good trip. Austin, if you can, but there are more deals in D/FW.

Random post: There is a very large contingent of Amish families and Japanese teenagers travelling this trip. The Amish are singing Christmas carols in the observation car. The Japanese teens are not.

V12's

BMW 850i $7,750 http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/5898435723.html

BMW 750iL $4,200

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/5905472679.html

In reply to smokindav:

I think you are a bit confused as to the meaning of the term "Challenge Priced"

Or is this your way of saying you will pay for the excess over $2017?

If so, meet me at the Hyatt House in Emeryville with $5k in cash. I'll mail you whatever I have left after I'm done with this trip.

Not sure I'd want to try driving any of the northern routes over the Continental Divide in the winter time in a $2,000 car with my 14-year old daughter.

A better plan might be to buy a clean, no rust California car to drive back to Chicago to sell. Use the profits to buy that challenge car.

Who said anything about a northern route?

Still waiting for that $5k.

Browsing a few possibilities while I was a on the train. This one was interesting, bit it never mentioned if it even ran.

Regardless, the email bounced back as undeliverable.

If i wanted to take a northern route...

This is probably a more realistic example of what I will end up driving back.

My first chance in more than a decade to own an SW with intact door sills and crossmember.

Yet another. From what I thought I knew, S series don't accumulate mileage while towed, so the seller's claims are a bit dubious, at best. I also don't know what is going on with the front wheels? Some sort of bearing buddy for the hubs? It was a towd, as I can see the base plate. Probably will check it out anyway.

The mileage is supposed to be lower because it was a toad behind an RV

Just got a Facebook tip. Stroked 4.0 swap. About 3 hours from here. A little damage to the right rear, unfortunately. But tempting...

smokindav wrote: E55 AMG $4,500. We have a winner. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/5931485727.html

This one even has "New Breaks"!

Yeah. I would expect even more new breaks on the trip. I hear the breaks are expensive on them.

A Saturn? There's GTI's out there for Saturn money.

https://modesto.craigslist.org/cto/5931176036.html

Swedish goodness for less than a grand

$1400 Nissan Hardbody in my neck of the woods

Matrix XRS for 2500? It got the swanky Celica GTS rev happy motor and is a clean looking manual?

Boxy but good

2002 Volvo XC70 with good miles but needs a head gasket? Did we bring our tool kit and torque wrench? Boxier but gooder

In reply to smokindav:

A GTI won't fit what an SW can. And repairs on the S series are easy and dirt cheap.

In reply to BoxheadTim:

Too many of my friends have Saab stories about that Swedish make. And none of them are good.

Probably not going up to Reno. Haven't even scanned the Reno CL.