Hot Rods How hard do you work your old truck?

...got these free cement blocks at a building they were taking down, just unloaded from my 48

 

I pull a goose neck with my OT 71 big block chevy 3/4. a Gooseneck with the hitch a bit foreward of the rear differential plants more weight in the front tires and is easier to maneuver in tight places because you can Jack Knife it and not damage anything. yep my gooseneck is also heavy and I have hauled 4 car bodys to the s**** man at a time on it. I use a 3/4 ton because in Arkansas there isn't a weight limit on a 3/4 ton truck. as long as you are not heavier than the rating on the sidewall of your tires you are legal.

 

Oddjob carried a whole cubed Lincoln in one of those.

 

Everyone's concept of what an "old truck" is seems to be a lot different. My "new" truck is a 77 work horse.
One reason the 48 needs a full from bare frame rebuild is that it did duty as my daily driver work truck for years in conditions 99% of the guys would never consider driving a Hamb era truck. It was all I had and it went to the dump, hauled s****, hauled firewood hauled parts from the wrecking yard and even towed a car to the wrecking yard and went to the grocery store and Walmart. Then it got a bath and cleanup and a fresh coat of primer at least once a year and off to the car shows.

 

My ElCamino has heavy duty rear springs and tie downs in the bed. I have used it to go to swap meets, and move,and haul a few things, The reality is, it has the cargo capacity of a wheelbarrow, and my 91 f250 does everything better, except turn heads. My 65 C10 will be capable, but will most likely get used lightly also.

 

Ive used more of those 60 thru 66 Chevy and GMC half tons that anything else. Ive got a 62 GMC that started out with a 305 V6 and a Muncie 318. The 318 Quit first and it got a 4 speed from a dump truck. then it got a 283. then a 3/4 ton Rear with 410 gears. then a 73 disk brake front suspension. One day I pulled up on the scales ar Shannon Salvage. The owner to me to back off and let hin reset. He stated you cant be that heavy. So we weighed it again. He stated your heavier than the bob trucks. I had almost a entire U Moline in it and some other stuff. My load weighed 9,000 pounds. However it bent the rear end housing angled the rear tires in at the top. It was a GMC however in 62 he GMC trucks had rear coil springs. In 63 and later for the most part have rear leaf springs. those coils will handle a good deal of weight.

 

Loaded with about 35 bags of rubber mulch...


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800 pounds of flooring got it to sit down a bit in back....

 

I carried some “lumber” in mine.

 

Define "work"

My Suburban is doubling as storage, "work" smarter not harder.

 

Mine goes to the yard waste place every couple of weeks or so.

 

Had some pretty big loads on it when we were cleaning out my mothers house that she lived in for 58 years. Didn't take any pictures.
When we travel, everything fits under the soft cover, but there isn't much "free" space under that soft cover. The truck has been on a few 1,000 mile trips over the last 3 summers.

It always carries a couple folding car show chairs, the trailer hitch umbrella holder with the 60" umbrella (folded up of course), and a 18" x 24" x 6" high plastic box full of stuff my wife thinks we need, unless a real hauling job arises. A cooler and the over night bag go along often.
My truck is an old truck built to drive and haul lighter things, and its used as such. I can tell you 28 bags of rubber mulch fits under the soft cover. There is a cl*** 5 hitch on the back, if need be, I can pull the open car trailer hauling your trailer queen, but I don't intend to do it often.

 

My 41 is really built for hauling booty but I don't have a problem fitting what I can in it.

 

I had a '65 Chevy C30 panel truck in 1974 with another set of leaf springs under it, rated for 1.25 to 1.5 tons. SM420, 5.38 gears, a tired 6 and later a 283.

I collected s**** steel from work, dumped it in the side yard until I had enough/the s**** prices were up. One trip I took in 4200 lbs and had a good payday. It actually rode very well considering and I did use the 1st gear.

 

My 52 GMC

 

Moderately...........

 

Bringing home my chopped '34 3/W! And my every day driver '50 Chevy p/u after Mt. St. Helens blew!

 

Junk yard duties

Been around 13k across the scales.
That’s not really all that hard

 

My chopped, shortened, shaved & molded 56 big window is one of my daily drivers rain or shine. If I'm not driving it, my wife is. Groceries, garden store, lowes for lumber, mulch, s**** run, parts run, swapmeet, or whatever. I own a 90 D150 flatbed but we usally grab the 56.
I actually got yelled at by a guy in the lowes parkinglot when he saw me loading mulch and lumber into it. I asked him who's name was on the ***le and that if they weren't meant to be driven what was the point of owning them?
About the only time we don't drive it is when it is snowing and then Im in my 79 Ramcharger or if Im working on it.

I have more plans for it including pinched front fenders, canted headlights and rear pan with eight 59 caddy taillights frenched in. Eventually it will get a complete color change and probably end up getting driven a little less....maybe.

 

My 1953 F100 and '29 RPU are retired. All of their travel is leisure.

 

Loaded up an old 3 piece set and headed to the dump.

 

1965 El Camino with a Greeves Motorcycle sticker in the rear window

Hello,
With a single Greeves Challenger in the back, the 250 pound bike made the standard level springs work overtime. But, with the same weight and a little air in the factory air shocks, the El Camino was level and drove smoothly, using straight line of sight. Without the air shocks inflated, the line of sight is up and over the end of the hood.

When we had two 250 pound Greeves Motorcycles in the back, or one Husqvarna and one Greeves Challenger, the weight doubled and now, the air shocks worked overtime. Talk about a low rider ready to s****e the bumper… whew!

There is also a fully loaded cooler with ice, drinks and food for the weekend. A full tank of gas and two riders equals an additional 360 lbs makes for a El Camino working overtime for the 100+ miles to get to the deep Mojave Desert race course, fully loaded up with “stuff.”
Air Shocks utilized...
Jnaki

So, 500 lbs for two desert racing bikes + 360 lbs for two riders + 40 lbs for a full cooler, now add another 40 lbs for a stocked parts bin and tool chest. Almost an additional 1000 pounds of weight in the El Camino to drive 100+ miles out to the desert site and 100+ miles home.

“working for the weekend…” comes to mind…YRMV