how many of you actually use your truck like a truck and not just a street toy?
i do anything from this...
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...g/IMG_0115.jpg
tho this...
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...expmanpl-2.jpg
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how many of you actually use your truck like a truck and not just a street toy?
i do anything from this...
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...g/IMG_0115.jpg
tho this...
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...expmanpl-2.jpg
I've hauled an extension ladder and a bunch of stuff to the dump (separate trips)...does that count?
It's mostly just a big vette though...
IMO, i put my old truck through hell and back. i pulled a dodge cc dually on a 28ft car hauler twice on a 250 mile trip (this was before i had any performance parts). i have loaded it down with scrap metal and half a dozen fourwheelers, even a load of gravel. all without a bedliner.
this new truck has a spray in bedliner and has never had anything in the back of the truck. i have pulled a trailer with it though.
Dirt bike hauling, 4-wheeling, setting off car alarms, pulling small trailers, hauling scrap, etc...
Got a bed for a reason. But if it was 2wd, it would be a street machine.
I use mine as a weight to hold the concrete down at Jon's shop.
I use mine as my shadow, if I go somewhere, it goes somewhere. Mostly I just go between work and home. The most it has hauled its entire life was some trash bags/cans and a lawn mower, blower, and trimmer. After I get my suburban it will sit at Jon's shop until the bags are done then it will come home to it's new garage and sit inside a jacket next to the GTO (which will also be in a jacket) until I want to go play in it.
My truck has pulled a 28' car trailer with everything from a one of a kind $200,000 67 Mustang convertable to a load of couches. It's pulled a toy-hauler filled with quads down to the dunes.
The bed has been loaded down with way too much to think of. Had just about everything from about 500-600lbs or copper wire in 2 huge boxes to a load of gravel. Taken about 50 trips to the dump. It's never had a bed liner in it and never will.
Work out of mine daily. Carry about 400-500 lbs of tools and supplies in the bed. I put 30-35k per year on it.
I have moved in my truck twice, helped my girl move, haul my 21.5ft mastercraft with it. But most the time I just use it to haul my bicycle if it's hauling anything.
sometimes hauls the drag radials and a jack, and occasionally empty beer bottles :lol:
off-roadin, haulin crap, moved with it countless times (myself & friends), pulled a deck to the other side of a pond, moved a cabin a few feet (with another truck)
right now, it has everything from the engine bay in it except the motor (it's over beside the shop)
Mine's my DD, weekly dump trips, runs to the scrap yard, it's in the field or the bush weekly, trailered my Dodge home with it, it's had multiple loads of gravel. My truck is a Chev commercial, the bed and bed rails have the scars to prove it. Oh it's also had a tarp in the back filled up with water
Mine does this. http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...k/loltruck.jpg
mine hauls a crownline 270 (27' open bow run about) 28' enclosed with a 5.90 dd 99 ss camaro lol (1/8 time)
lets see, mine occasionally pulls a 21ft trailor loaded with metal. Its hauled cars/trucks across the US to shows. It actually pulled a trailor with a 9,000lb skid steer on it....LOL...50mile round trip with it. It huals just about everything. Its daily driven most of the time and its knocking on 10s....Mine doesn't think its a ZO6 Vette, it eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner...HAHA
Oh yeah, and its a perfect donor for Kurts leftover parts....
There is no o in trailer and mine doesn't have a bed. :LOL:
Mitch needs to use his torsion rods better on his distribution system but I can vouch for is hauliness.
I got my truck in May of this year and Ive moved three different people already. And I bet no one can guess what Im doing this weekend too. I hate it when you get a truck and everyone asks you to move their junk
originally mine was used for working for a drywall company...hauling trailers and equipment and lots of supplies racked up 50,000 in two summers :sad:
....now the sole reason of keeping it is to go faster than my best friends Rumblebee :burnrub:
well that shouldnt be hard at allQuote:
Originally Posted by conekiller01
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Contractor Rig, Dirtbike Hauler, Hunting Truck, Boat Hauler, Drag Strip Monster
150,000 Miles
Neither should be out running your POS. I mean it's IMPOSSIBLE to trap 109 with a 5.3 and 80E. Especially when you run a 15.xx!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by LamboDoNoMo
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you saying the back of my truck is too far down?? cause the torsion bars were as loaded as they could be!! there was a car and a house full of furniture in the truck/trailer!Quote:
Originally Posted by GasGuzzler
I haul trailers,lawnmowers and ass with mine.....
I use it to kick peoples ass and make them wish they didnt race me. Duh
Previously i used it to haul Tylers mom around but she got to heavy for the lowered suspension. Now i just use it as a toy and occasional lumber hauler, etc etc...
a racer on the weekends and a truck during the week ;)
even tow somewhat small trailers when needed.
Mines a peice of crap! It's broke down in the shop more than it's on the road since I got it.
Nice Burban up above! SUV power!!!
As a Truck
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...is03/011-1.jpg
Or Office
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...is03/006-2.jpg
SS THIS is a Weekend Toy or Track Truck, Sometimes drive it to the track and run low 11's on Street tires!
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...ack-Copy-1.jpg
I have a hard hat just like that one.
All my truck hauls is fine bitties.
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Originally Posted by SS THIS
you get those plates changed lol ? and tint taken off? lmao i bet ya didnt hahahaha
thats a badazz pic of SS THIS!!!
I call BS cause you unhooked the bars with no lever at my work, just kicked them loose. Need to boom the torsion rods down with the jack several inches above the ball to the tightest comfortable chain link then let it down the the truck won't go down more than an inch.Quote:
Originally Posted by mitch cobb racing
I use mine for street and to haul every now and then.
it was empty when i was there, just taking it back home to fill er' up then!Quote:
Originally Posted by GasGuzzler
this is what it looked like in that first picture...
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...g/IMG_0116.jpg
http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/p...g/IMG_0118.jpg
whoever guesses that car first gets a prize!
Thanks on the Comment! Do you want to go on another Road Trip to Roma in my D*** Carrier???? LOL!!!! Plate and Tint are the Same still. I quess getting pulled over Twice for the Tint and searched because of the Plate wasn't enough!! :LOL:Quote:
Originally Posted by skeet
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...is03/012-1.jpg
that easy it a VW thing
:thumb: i figured it wouldnt be too hard... haha
Ok found a good pic of the truck...hehe
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...131071702a.jpg
Then why did you not have the bars hooked up? It was half a foot down at the tongue. :tacos:Quote:
Originally Posted by mitch cobb racing
the only other 2 5/8 hitch i have is a 2" drop, and thats not enough to make the railer level, so i just use that one all the time with that trailer. and i guess the bars still help a little even when its empty, make it pull straighter and sway less and what not