I made a delivery with my Ranchero of some metal from our shop,so I could leave early! Ya gotta DRIVE EM!!!!
I assumed that was you ON the forklift. My experience with other fork lift drivers is that they go till they hit the tailgate then back up an inch.
No! I was the one ready to 'administer the pain' if he did!!! LOL!!! Iv'e known him for quite a while! he knows what he's doing!
Really guys?? i use my el caminos as real trucks.... That aint shit,,,, my daily ive been weighed in at 950lbs of trans am in the back and anouther time hauled 2 sbc's and parts.... Not to mention the hemi's ive hauled... Now my dad's '66 'camino that hauled some shit!! Prorated truck springs in the rear and 427 impala springs up front....
Heck, Oddjob hauled a crushed Lincoln with a trunk full of gold in a Ranchero once. Even as a little kid, I went seriously?
Hauling the 53 bed remnants... 600 sq feet of flooring....$2500 in there...more than I paid for the truck. Hauling wood and trim for my home addition.
I'll have to see if he still has the one with the side boards and damn near a cord of wood, or the one stacked up with laundry basket sized rocks, Kinda scarry when ya really think about the little car axles...
Elcamino's are Like a good mullet "party in the front, business in the back" love the elkies!! Godspeed MrC.
The F-1 on the way to friend's shop to build frame for modified roadster. The F-1 is in use daily since 2003 as my work truck for my part time finish carpentry business.
This post kind of reminds me of a former job and the owner of the company. He was a real tree hugger senior citizen hippie. He drove some econo box with his knees jambed up to his chin and always looked down on my OT 1/2 ton 4X4 because it was a big ugly gas guzzler. We had to have two big chunks of metal machined for a machine we were building. When the first piece was done he went to pick it up in his car, it was a great scene as he pulled into the parking lot, the ass end of his car was dragging on the ground and the front end was about 6" higher than normal. When the next piece was done my truck all of a sudden wasn't such of waste of natural resources, he sheepishly asked if I'd drive over and pick up the second piece with my truck which barely lowered when the part was loaded. After that he would ask me to pick up big items. I didn't work long for him because he was a self righteous ass.
i used to haul small block chevy engines to and from shop class in high school, in the trunk of my 69 chevelle!!
Couple years ago I was at Home Depot loading some sheets of Plywood in the back of my 57 Ranchero. The guy parked next to me started giving me a bad time, said how could I possibly justified using a "classic" as a truck. While he was talking I noticed his guys were throwing bags of cement into his new F-250 crew cab diesel 4x4. I said, nice truck you have there, you probably paid 5 times the amount I have in my Ranchero, doesn't it bother you to be using something so valuable as a truck? He just looked at me dumb as I drove off.
I wish I had a picture of an El Camino I saw in Redding, Ca. about 1974... With a D6 Catapillar track in the back... And wood blocks in the suspension to keep the tail off the ground... That reset what I considered possible in load bearing ability... Karl
How much weight was that? I plan to tow my light weight 1,800 lbs boat behind my '64 & some people get all weird about that? I figure it should be fine.
It was only about 160lbs. I'm usually hauling 10k with my Freightliner work truck! It was a light skid! But more importantly, it got me outa work earlier than normal
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