Re: Pickup Truck Haulers

Posted by Bob Kerr on March 14, 2002 at 09:41:41 from (205.188.197.31):

In Reply to: Pickup Truck Haulers posted by Cseries on March 13, 2002 at 20:33:02:

Are you sitting down! I tow with a 1971 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser and would't trade it for any of the diesel rigs. No foolin! I get the same milage as a cummins, better ride, cheaper repairs, cheaper general maintaince. It has a stock Olds 350, TH 400, 2.56:1 rear end (not posi), all the torque you could want, Heavy duty brakes, springs, frame, trans cooler, heavy duty cooling etc.I can set up the back into a "mini" hotel room and sleep better than I do at home in my own bed. It has over 400,00 miles and can leave right now to go coast to coast. I get about 16- 19 MPG while towing, and around 21-22 not towing( I keep a log book)! I get about the same milage whether in mountains or out in the flat land( the way I drive it does that). I have a steel deck car hauler trailer that weighs 1800 empty, and can haul up to the 5000lb load limit on the trailer. I have hauled my Steam boat which weighs 6000lb not including the trailer and can pull it up out of steep gravel boat ramps!( I have witnesses!) My only complaint is my trailer can only haul one tractor at a time. Not one hill on the east coast has given me fits and only one hill out west(so far) got me into low gear(I-17 south of Flagstaff AZ)and I had a big load of a 67 Olds cutlass supereme and a ton of parts, but I still passed a few semis.I think the only reason I got into low gear on that hill was because of the thin air at that elevation! So far I have spent about $5000 total on this car.$2700 to buy it and the rest in oil changes, tires, brakes, and other little things and I have absolutly run the wheels off it(160,000 miles in 4 years), but it still drives like a new one. I possibly shouldn't have posted this as I would like to find another Vista and they are getting scarce,It doesn't show any signs of dieing, just in case someone runs into this one.

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