California Sighting--cool old RV

Dakzuki wrote:
..... The rear door rotted out eventually as did the metal of the Chev (they were prone to it).

I heard that! In my mis-spent youth, I spent a few years in the mid-70's driving as a bank courier (no cash, just checks & paperwork). We had an all-Ford fleet, F-150's and Torinos. But the company got a 'deal' on some low-miles Chevy pickups from another courier outfit that was going belly up.

I brought a F-150 in from a run as another courier was getting into one of those Chevys. He was wearing cowboy boots, and the narrow heel punched completely thru the door sill under his weight! I had to help him pull his boot out, him trying to lift his foot while I pulled up on the boot. It was another 3 decades before I considered any GM product after seeing that.

BTW, the Ford pickups did as do well at auction with 350,000+ miles on them as ones with only 50,000 ;). We didn't get rid of them until they burned a quart of 50 weight every 500 miles.... and we really hammered the heck out of them, keeping to tight schedules on mostly 2-lane mountain roads. And they ran almost 24/6.

Yep, that's really cool old RV. But I remember all too well what vehicles like that were to drive all day, compared to modern ones.


Jim, "This beer tastes like I'm not going to work tomorrow."