I'm in the market for a new vehicle and I'm interested in what you guys think a good vehicle for hauling pins would be. When I first started looking, I was looking for a compact pickup. My dad used to have a Chevy Luv and I really "luved" that vehicle. I hauled fire wood in it, took trips to Indy to visit my brother from southern Indiana, and saved a lot on gas with it's manual 4 cylinder. It was also a cinch to work on myself being an older vehicle.

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I love the early compact pickups for their gas mileage and ease of use in the city. I was also looking at VW Caddys which are like Rabbits but a with a bed. They apparently get really good gas mileage but it's a unibody which is a little worrying.

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Recently I've been wondering if I should expand looking at bigger pickups or SUVs or minivans or even wagons. I'm single, live in a rural area which can be a problem when it snows and don't take many trips. I don't have to drive to work so day to day mileage doesn't matter much. I kind of have a preference for smaller vehicles with less of a footprint and older vehicles from the 70s and 80s. That said, I'm open to any suggestions with your personal experience on how easy it is to haul one or two pins and other pros or cons.

That looks like a pretty inexpensive car. I wasn't expecting that. I may have to watch for one of those. I assume that's a one pin car. It's kind of similar to something else I was looking at.

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I guess sometimes Dad tells you things and they just stick. I imagine if you have a something heavy in the bed it could have extra stress on the sides. A minivan would have more support with the roof but trucks that are unibody like a El Camino would have less support for sides. I know with that LUV I hauled a lot weight in the bed, probably more than I should have.

Does anybody worry about heighth? Some of them pickups are tall.

Here's a pretty fairly priced Ford Transit but it runs on propane. Not much storage space left and where would you fill it up?

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I've been searching CL and been finding all sorts of oddities. Here's a 2012 Nissan Sprinter Van. The thing looks like a moose.

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I've found a couple of Broncos and thought maybe that would be a nice truck to have. It could haul a trailer or I could take out the back seat and store pins in the back. Plus the top comes off which I always thought was cool.

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It looks like you have the passenger transit. Does the back seat fold flat or did you have to take it out? I noticed it has a trailer hitch. Does it haul a trailer well?

The winch should come in handy.

Does it have a top speed? What's with all the dust?

Dad has a '72 chevy truck ambulance with the extended height fiberglass top. I don't really want to drive that everyday right now but maybe someday I'll help restore it for a good pin-hauler.

I tried to put an EM in a Ford Festiva. If the backseat wasn't in there, it would have fit.