the ultimate truck camper truck.

[towpro]

they don't make them like they used to

[NRALIFR]

valhalla360 wrote:

NRALIFR wrote:
Three-quarter ton, with a 350 CID V8. That’s pretty impressive even if it was just level ground.

Not really. On level ground, it doesn't take much to get a lot of weight rolling.

Now if they gave a 10sec 0-60 time, I would be impressed...or heck even climbing a 2% grade...but just getting it rolling on level ground isn't much of a test.

Not to be disagreeable, but I don’t think so. The torque required to get 374,000 pounds sitting on rubber tires rolling even on level ground has got to be huge. Did you see the truck as it started to pull? Even a diesel locomotive has to grunt hard to get a long string of cars moving, and those are sitting on steel wheels and rails that are level.

Don’t get me wrong, that truck wouldn’t be able to pull a load like that up any kind of grade for very long. I was just impressed that it was able to get it started without the road being littered with tranny parts. Who knows, maybe it did and they just cut that part out. :W

:):)

[noteven]

valhalla360 wrote:

NRALIFR wrote:
Three-quarter ton, with a 350 CID V8. That’s pretty impressive even if it was just level ground.

Not really. On level ground, it doesn't take much to get a lot of weight rolling.

Now if they gave a 10sec 0-60 time, I would be impressed...or heck even climbing a 2% grade...but just getting it rolling on level ground isn't much of a test.

Dodge tows a logging truck up hill.

[valhalla360]

NRALIFR wrote:
Three-quarter ton, with a 350 CID V8. That’s pretty impressive even if it was just level ground.

Not really. On level ground, it doesn't take much to get a lot of weight rolling.

Now if they gave a 10sec 0-60 time, I would be impressed...or heck even climbing a 2% grade...but just getting it rolling on level ground isn't much of a test.

[Grit_dog]

[Grit_dog]

specta wrote:
I'm grateful that they don't build them like they used to.

Eh they’re pretty tough.
Redoing a 86 Camper Special right now. Super solid truck.



I love that old commercial btw. Wish ours was a 70s model!

[free_radical]

Adverts were fun back then
Pontiac gto w endura bumper

https://youtu.be/vZNNu1YuQ6c

[n0arp]

From the comments...

Commercial guy: we don’t recommend you abuse your trucks like this
Whistlin diesel: hold my beer

[Sjm9911]

Lol, thanks for that. My buddy still has one in a 2 tone blue if i remember corectly. I can only imagine what the extra springs looked like in the back. Probably like 2 seal I beams. His was stock and it had a **** load of leaf springs.

[BurbMan]

Yeah but it don't have Bluetooth so it don't matter how much it can tow

[specta]

I'm grateful that they don't build them like they used to.

[NRALIFR]

Three-quarter ton, with a 350 CID V8. That’s pretty impressive even if it was just level ground.

That’s more than two space shuttles. :C

Yeah Jim, I thought I was going to have to get all uppitty defending the F450 pickups. But, I think I’ll just let Chevy have this one. :W

🙂 🙂

[gbopp]

The space shuttle weighed aboit 165,000 pounds empty.

[KD4UPL]

So I lost track. Is that more or less weight than the Tundra pulling the space shuttle?

[jimh406]

I’m not sure what towing a bunch of logs with a 70s Chevy pickup has to do with truck campers. Maybe it’s an attempt at humor.

But, everyone knows that the F450 pickup bed truck with 19.5s is the ultimate TC truck. Seriously though, it’s impossible to have the ultimate when people carry everything from popups to triple slides and everything from pavement to dirt, and that leaves out the ability to tow or not.

[Tal_IL]

So there! Take that, weight police.