She takes 9,000 lbs pretty good. The springs only give a 3 1/4".

 

2600 lb car on a steel trailer that probably weighs another 1200-1500 lbs. A race weekend fills the bed with spare tires, canopy, tools, jack, etc. Not fast from a start (3 speed) but rolls down the highway at 70 just fine.

 

Dailey driver and work horse for past 40 plus years. It's carried loads that far exceed the recommended weight in mountain terrain.

 

its my daily so its a catch all for me, i really gotta get a hitch/reciever so i can play with the big boys.

matt

 

Nice!! The tires don't even look like they're bulging!

 

They were a little squishy. The 3 ply sidewall coopers are the best 16" tires I've had for packing a load.

 

i remember hauling off shingles for miles out to dump with grandpa driving.... setting on bump stops, middle of summer.
i doubt it was ever purposely abused, but i know it was made to do whatever a hard working family man needed it to do....
i expect thats exactly what ill do with it after the rebuild as well.

 

I dont work mine as hard as you guys do. Over the weekend I was cleaning out our storage locker and was moving a trailer full of stuff to a building 30 plus miles away blew a tire on the trailer limped it home with the spare and loaded the 65 with stuff off the trailer and moved it the 30 plus miles.

I used it to run stuff back and forth from the house to storage light loads but it still is a working truck.
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I would say this one earns its keep:





It has since been painted:




It hasn't complained once about the work it is asked to do, between moving hay, hauling wood, plowing or just driving to and from. I just need to make sure the brake fluid is topped off before moving it and away it goes.

 

pulling red dawg to the shop with da twister pulled great not to shabby even with my 2.78 gears in my 9"

 

Getting ready to haul calves - I even have the tow mirrors flipped out.

 

mine's not running, but i had a 63 flareside in the 70s that drove cross country in 59 hours with a motorcycle and three sailors' belongings in the back, with all three of us in the front. no stopping except for biology breaks (and one flat tire). that truck kicked *** that weekend!

 

Had it loaded up to about 16k gross and apparently gave 'er a little too much onion...

 

Twisted sister.

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I love work'n trucks. That's what they were built to do!!!!!!