Vintage B's
Who has received some mileage (attention) from having a vintage Class B? I set up last August at an all-General Motors local car show (that I used to attend with my vintage Buicks) this time with the...
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Golden_HVAC wrote:
This class - something would turn some heads, even if it used a 1975 - 87 Ford front end and 4 wheel drive front axle, no rear wheel drive on this Ford based van camper.Golden_HVAC wrote:j-d wrote:
That second Caddy (a '55?) looks like it could have been the first Lazy Daze.
I always wanted to build a single-unit boat transporter. Front of a Toronado, rear of a boat trailer.
Something like this?
I think that Trailer Life or another boating magazine did a review of one of these Ford powered F-350 vans. It was converted with a 4X4 front axle, and is front wheel drive only. IT has something like 150 cubic feet of storage between the nose of the boat and van body.
Yes you could use a FWD Toranado or ElDorado. However the cab would be pretty low, and the front axle weight rating is not all that high. The 5,000 pound rating of a E-350 with a solid front 4X4 axle from a F-350 is used.
Fred.
The 'Toronado chassis is what was used by GM in their motorhomes of the 70s. From '73 to '78 GM built about 13,000 at the GMC coach plant in Pontiac, MI. About 11,000 are still in existence.
