Archive for September, 2008

>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday issued a second consumer advisory to owners of certain unrepaired Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sport-utility vehicles, pickup trucks, vans and passenger cars who have not responded to previous recalls.

NHTSA said about 12 million vehicles are part of the recall but nearly 5 million still have not been fixed.

The recalls have affected Ford F-Series pickup trucks and led to hundreds of complaints and dozens of lawsuits over engine fires.

NHTSA issued a lengthy list of older vehicles covered by the consumer advisory, including 1993-2004 Ford F150 trucks, 1994-2002 F250 through F550 Super Duty trucks with gasoline engines, and 1998-2001 Ford Explorer and Mercury Mountaineer SUVs, which were among the best-selling vehicles in the nation during those years.

A complete list was available at www.nhtsa.dot.gov.
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>WSBT-TV – South Bend,IN,USA
“We just can’t continue to pour money into a sinking ship,” said Richard Aker, who owns the Hart City RV Supercenter, which is going out of business.

Sales, especially for motorized units, have plummeted.

“The last three months, nothing’s moving,” he explained. “The problem really began with the high cost of fuel, and then the money just started to tighten up with the banks, to where they just didn’t want to make loans and so they made it harder for people to get credit.”

Hart City RV is now having a liquidation sale of all its units.

According to Aker, he is the third local RV dealer to go out of business as a result of worsening economic conditions.
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>The red-turreted Hotel del Coronado has anchored the stretch of sandy real estate since 1888. From Victorian ladies in full-length frocks and gentlemen in evening coats strolling the sands to the microscopic bikinis and baggy bathing shorts of today, Coronado has played host to it all.

“Coronado is an offshore island with a very flat, fairly protected beach with some of the safest and warmest water on the California coast without having the pollution problems. It is in the San Diego area, but a world away.

Of course, film fans know the beach has already had its big moment – in 1959, when it starred in the film “Some Like It Hot,” with the ultimate beach bathing beauty of the era, Marilyn Monroe. The comedy, which also featured Tony Curtis (with a dead-on Cary Grant impersonation) and Jack Lemmon, opened on March 1 and gave the shivering nation a glimpse of the golden sands of the beach and the Hotel del Coronado.

Getting to Coronado Beach can be a bit of a chore. You have to take Interstate 5 south and pass almost all the way through the city before hanging a right on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge, making sure not to follow the traffic on to the North Island Naval Air Station and its aircraft carriers. At Orange Avenue, visitors hang a left. The beaches are close when the turn choices come down to Ocean Boulevard or Strand Way.

The big attraction here is known locally as Coronado Central Beach. Part fronts the “Hotel Del,” which despite its prime beachfront doesn’t have private rights to the sand and sea. If you bring your own grub, the picnic tables at Sunset Park are a good stop. A concrete walkway runs along part of the edge of the beachfront. There’s a wheelchair ramp at Avenida de las Arenas.

Camper and RV parking is available at Silver Strand Beach State Park. Rates start at $8 per night for smaller vehicles and rise to $30 per night for RVs over 21 feet. Discounts are available for seniors and the disabled. 800-444-7275.
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