Posted by Chris Becker on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 8:30PM :
In Reply to: Re: Tow vehicle, Is it big enough? posted by Allen Patnode on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 12:18PM :
I guess I would be reliving mine too. My father's truck is '71 F-100 with a 390 and a t-19 4-speed in it. I grew up in this truck. He hauled tons of steel around Portland, OR, with this beat up 2-axle trailer with no trailer brakes (GASP!!). We drove the old Ford around till it took three quarts of oil to go from his place in Beaverton to the Portland shipyards and back (a distance of about 40 miles) and accumulated 543,710 miles on the original running gear. We will never get rid of that truck. Dad is in the process of rebuilding the engine in it.
The '70 we are buying is only going to be used to tow the Power Wagon to events that we don't want to drive to and for a secondary vehicle when one of our main one breaks. It's not going to acquire much mileage and I plan on fixing it up and making it look better in the process.
Thanks,
Chris Becker