here is my "tow rig" up visiting Kanada at Tucks place. its tired the little 4.3 gets great mpg but cant tow much any more.
Here's mine (if you've missed my Hamb updates). '47 Ford 392 hemi powered - push****on trans - origionally built in '65 - I've kept it looking the same but made improvements for towing. Power disc brakes, 9"
How about a 2 ton suburban. It started as a mobile home toter. I bought a suburban body on e-bay for $92, and barrowed some front fenders from a 62 GMC fire truck. I used the left front on the right rear and vice versa. I put a 454 in it with a 540 allison 4 speed and kept the 2 speed rear end. It drives nice and totes the mail. I cut the bodies at the windsheild posts and front floor. The 2 ton firewall is different because the engine sits back farther in a 2 ton and the front end is shorter. Yes it's hard on gas, but it dwarfs a hummer. It kinda dwarfs my 1 ton rollback also.
Here's one that I recently sold. It was a local Chevy dealership service truck for many years and then retired. Was redone with a 350 engine and used around the race track. We called it "humper".
Mine is a 93 International school bus, emron blue paint. DT360 Diesel with Allison trans. Interior is redone with couch, chest of drawers 50's lighting etc. Normal hauling our Bonneville truck www.gasolinealleyshops.org and this morning hauling my HA/GR car to the World of Wheels Car show in Indianapolis.
Casepower, I love the Suburban ***ault vehicle!! Totally bad-***! Yo Baby, I dig the Caddy. I've got a thing for the big 70's sleds. Here is my current work horse:
Damn bubba, that bus is *****in! The state has a huge sale twice a year hear and pretty much gives these busses away. Yeah...i need this!
That's why we call it Poverty Flats.............just wide open country with nothing around here but old cars and trucks. (I wish).
Here is my super duty pulling a friend's broken down ride home after last year's 50's....but I do have a '66 Chev extended ch***is car hauler that may see some use some day.
Thanks for building me a good truck. I've been really pleased with the Mega, and the wife even likes it. Here are my other 2 haulers. I like driving the old Chevy occasionally, but the 454 gets awful thirsty. I built the old International out of a U-Haul truck. The bed drops down about 6 more inches to make loading easier.
Hey Hudsoncustom, i didn´t know you having a F-100. Here´s mine, hauling Feder´s old 59 in snow.
Well, this is the current work horse. Just traded the wedge for an enclosed trailer with living quarters. And this is what I hope to get going this year. Starting with this and putting it on a bus ch***is. Oh...and a different paint job.