NOT for hauling firewood

[Jimmy in NC]

That's the one lol

You know that video earned him a new truck for free don't you?

 

[Simondo]

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Another shot of my F-350 weighing roughly 12.5K lbs with the wood. which started out life as a chassis cab. It's an '02 7.3 Powerstroke, 6spd manual and 4x4 with 4:10 gears. I may or may not have had trailers attached which made my gross combined weight push a bit over 26K lbs... Maybe closer to 34K at times... Hell, the truck as it sits is around 9,850lbs fully fueled, w/o me or anyone else in it and an empty bed.

I would love to have a Hilux or Ranger 4x4 diesel that are available almost everywhere else as a daily chore truck, but when we get to doing work, we tend to go big and avoid making several trips, when possible. For example some of my wood is around a 250+km round trip from my house getting roughly 5.07 km/l as a loaded average while pulling a loaded trailer. The advantage here though is that diesel is around 52 cents/liter here currently.

For the record guys don't flame me, but I thought I'd put things in metric conversion to give SIMONDO a UK take on Mid-Western perspective...

Funny thing is with this metric stuff...some of us of a "certain age !!" were taught both but I tend to think of MPG rather than Ltr per Km. I do gas in gallons and think of feet and inches for big things like truck beds or trees hight . I dont do the Km for distance ...Miles is what i think of for roads and trips ..BUT.. put me in the workshop and a steal rule or calliper in my hands and i work mostly in Meters and mm's ! I can do both but I have a preference for working in mm . The quart,bushel, sort of sizes I dont know to well , but i do Beer in pints !

 

[Barneyrb]

GMC stand for Georgia Mountain Climber: I'm not sure what y'all do with them up there.

No it doesn't, it stands for Gotta Mechanic Coming.

 

[hseII]

No it doesn't, it stands for Gotta Mechanic Coming.

Your Doing It Wrong Then.

 

[T.Roller]

You know that video earned him a new truck for free don't you?

Really

 

[Guido Salvage]

Pretty truck. The car... to each his own.

When the Avanti came out it was advanced for its day. It had front disc brakes, integral roll bar, conical door locks and overhead aircraft type switches. The body was fiberglass and it hit over 170 MPH. It remained in production under various owners for almost 40 years.

That car now resides outside Melbourne, Australia.

 

[sawfun]

I spent much of my youth crossing pastures and chasing cows. The first time I took the M35A3 cross country I was amazed that it was much more comfortable at 35 mph in the pasture than any pickup I have ever ridden or driven at that speed. The air ride seat was nice but the better ride was attributable to the suspension as well. The cucv rides like you would expect - will bounce you into the ceiling.

Ron

Yup, myM35A3C will take speed bumps at 30 MPH quite pleasantly. It's a great street legal skidder and running through 8 + foot tall brush piles, well, thats is just plain fun. now to find a car to play monster truck with. Oh yea and at 13 mpg all day and sips less fuel idling than my stock 12 valve Cummins, which I dearly love.

 

[Barneyrb]

When the Avanti came out it was advanced for its day. It had front disc brakes, integral roll bar, conical door locks and overhead aircraft type switches. The body was fiberglass and it hit over 170 MPH. It remained in production under various owners for almost 40 years.

That car now resides outside Melbourne, Australia.

This video shows some "pure stock" drag races and the old Studebakers ain't too shabby. I particularly like the white Avanti against the silver Trans Am

 

[sawfun]

Correct me if my wrong, but didn't the Advanti come with a supercharged V8?

 

[Barneyrb]

Correct me if my wrong, but didn't the Advanti come with a supercharged V8?

Yes, it was available with a R1 option which was a 4 bbl (289) and then the R2 with paxton blower and the R3 had a blower too. I have heard (can't confirm) there was a R4 which was (allegedly) a dual 4bbl, blown, and a 304. As I said, I can't confirm but have heard of the R4.

 

[sawfun]

Yes, it was available with a R1 option which was a 4 bbl (289) and then the R2 with paxton blower and the R3 had a blower too. I have heard (can't confirm) there was a R4 which was (allegedly) a dual 4bbl, blown, and a 304. As I said, I can't confirm but have heard of the R4.

Cool, thanks. I hadn't thought of these in a long time. We were high school kids in 1980 and knew of these cars which were scarce even then when most big block cars were plentiful and cheap.

 

[heimannm]

Just a reminder...that was Robert Paxton McCulloch...sold the supercharger business to Borg Warner.

Mark

 

[WOODS]

Yup, myM35A3C will take speed bumps at 30 MPH quite pleasantly. It's a great street legal skidder and running through 8 + foot tall brush piles, well, thats is just plain fun. now to find a car to play monster truck with. Oh yea and at 13 mpg all day and sips less fuel idling than my stock 12 valve Cummins, which I dearly love.

Due to the winch, mine sits at 1500 rpm more than it moves. Nonetheless 8 mpg. I'm not too keen on taking it through the brush though - too many exposed plastic air line fittings. I wish mine were a "C" as the fold down sides would be handy at times. Ron

 

[sawfun]

Due to the winch, mine sits at 1500 rpm more than it moves. Nonetheless 8 mpg. I'm not too keen on taking it through the brush though - too many exposed plastic air line fittings. I wish mine were a "C" as the fold down sides would be handy at times. Ron

Here's mine pulling a 33" white oak.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Yes, it was available with a R1 option which was a 4 bbl (289) and then the R2 with paxton blower and the R3 had a blower too. I have heard (can't confirm) there was a R4 which was (allegedly) a dual 4bbl, blown, and a 304. As I said, I can't confirm but have heard of the R4.

R1 - 289 4V - 240 hp
R2 - 289 4V supercharged - 290 hp
R3 - 304.5 4V supercharged - 335 hp
R4 - 304.5 dual 4V - 280 hp
R5 - 304.5 4V dual supercharger (non production)

Studebaker bought Paxton Products and in the process got Andy Granatelli. They did the machine and assembly work on the R3 and R4 engines. Only 9 factory R3 Avantis were assembled though surplus R3's (and clones) have found their way into others.

Mine was a late production (serial # 5400) '64 with a R2 and 4 speed. Nothing like the whine of the blower kicking in.

 

[Guido Salvage]

This video shows some "pure stock" drag races and the old Studebakers ain't too shabby. I particularly like the white Avanti against the silver Trans Am

The Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Races will be held September 15-17 at the Mid Michigan Motorplex in Stanton, MI. It is a great event and as Randy indicates, Studebakers are well represented. Ted Harbit, a 7 time NHRA stock champion will be there and racing at age 81 in his '63 R2 hardtop.

 

[Uzi]

I don't haul any wood either just dogs

 

[Hinerman]

LMAO....

 

[redtractor]

View attachment 29185 View attachment 29184 I don't haul any wood either just dogs

2 questions. Its tagged so is it road legal? And in this pic is it stuck?

 

[Uzi]

2 questions. Its tagged so is it road legal? And in this pic is it stuck?

Yep road legal and licensed like a regular commercial truck 62000 GVW does require a CDL

Yep it was a little stuck luckily it has the self recovery winch so just hooked a line a pulled itself right out. Here's the other side it doesn't look that bad but the tires are 53's so 40"+ of mud.


It's been stuck worse during flooding out here I don't recommend it takes a small fortune and hours at the car wash to clean it. Getting it out of this one we straightened the hook on a 10"steel pulley and pulled one tow hook off of the anchor truck ended up winching to a huge cottonwood with another snatch block to get free. The worst thing about 8x8 and 500 Hp when you get stuck you are really really really stuck and usually nothing is big enough to help pull you out.