Hi, I have a 96 Roadmaster wagon. picked it up as a tow vehicle for our vintage airstream camper. Tried to find a decent mid 70's contry squire but this one came along first. thanks and great forum.
thanks. we've towed our camper with it several times and it does really well. it has the LT1 with a 2:73 (or???) rear end.... gets about 10mpg towing. only problem is my kids want something with rear air... so it's up for sale.
10 is pretty darn good with that setup. A full size diesel truck would probably only do 12 and the car is probably much more comfortable and usefull.
agreed. I talked to one guy at the campground who had just gotten rid of an 06 or 07 Ford 250 diesel because it was getting 10-12 towing a 19' airstream... he had it checked out and it was "within spec" for that truck!!! that'd be fine it diesel was around $1.20 like it should be....but that's another soapbox. like I said, I'm going to list it for sale (as soon as I get enough posts in to list in classifieds). I'm really torn about selling it or just parking it as our tow-only vehicle... the more I do to it, the better it looks and the more I'd like to keep it...
You're probably too young. But you could always try the line "back in my day there wasn't any air". Or "what until I get the country squire, air wasn't invented back in those days". "We'll have to roll down the windows and drive faster".
Roll 'em down by hand? No power? Open air? What kind of options are those? Or walk!? Nice options... Where have I heard those before? Hey, Welcome Doug... A couple of us up here, where gas is just over $5.50/gal are working out some ideas to inject water, at during non-freezing weather. It's been around since the early 80's, and still used on some Bimmers. We'll put up more info this summer. Could mean a cleaner engine and up to 20% fuel savings. Mother Earth News 1980: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_motherearth/me3.html
