From the beautiful hills of Arkansas comes my next Maverick. My buddy Ray offered to drive, (since he didn't want me to kill myself pulling his trailer with my flareside) and possibly make a small profit on the trip by "picking up something" for another friend. I am still shocked that Arkansas state troopers, nor OHP stopped to at least check out the questionable sanity of such a load. Oh, and it is a 93F car.
Yep, a Buddy locally has a dozen or so of the little Metros. Surprisingly the 79 handled the load with no problems (other than a noticeable decrease in gas mileage )
Thanks Chip. It's a lot worse than it looks, which has me unsure of how I'm going to proceed. The floors are nice, but the roof has a rust hole, just weird. Worse case, all the good parts make it a good buy.
The guy I got it from had a lot of cool stuff on his place, couple of 69 torino sports roofs (one gt, one cobra) a 64 Fairlane wagon, but the coolest thing was a 46 Mercury one ton truck.
It was a good trip, up till about midnight when we were too tired to tell funny stories. Those 94 Lightning wheels make the truck! The original Lightning tires make that thing about sanity really come into question.
those old ford trucks are work horses and will haul anything anywhere as long as you can afford the gas and oil consumption. I had a 73 f350 single wheel ford that would use 10 gallons of gas to go across town and back that thing got horrible mileage BUT it would act like there wasnt a load on it when I would load it to the hilt. I can remember a 13000 payload plus my trailer weighed around 2000 pounds and it pulled it like nothing was back there but the gas mileage sank even more and the oil usage went way up lol
639 miles round trip, only used half a quart of oil in the 302. All the Ford Truck forum guys are in total disbelief that we drove that truck like we did.
