How Hard Do You Work Your Slick?
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Joined: Jan 2002
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From: Elizabethtown, PA
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.
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Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Owasso, Ok.
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 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.
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From: colbert washington
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.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vic-63-65/8085227930/http://www.flickr.com/photos/vic-63-65/8085227930/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/vic-63-65/, on Flickr
I used it to run stuff back and forth from the house to storage light loads but it still is a working truck.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vic-63-65/8085227930/http://www.flickr.com/photos/vic-63-65/8085227930/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/vic-63-65/, on Flickr
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Joined: Mar 2003
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From: Butler, PA
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.
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.
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From: Philly Suburbs, PA
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!
