Nv Guy
Reno NV
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Great looking tow rig, good job. It would be a great tow rig for a nostalgia racer. I can see it pulling a front engine dragster on an open trailer.
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Turtle n Peeps
California
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Nv Guy wrote:Great looking tow rig, good job. It would be a great tow rig for a nostalgia racer. I can see it pulling a front engine dragster on an open trailer.
Close enough? This old school Vega is what it towed for years and years.
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MFL
Midwest
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Good job, nice pics! Keeping the TV will keep the many enjoyable memories alive.
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That is 1 sweet Burban.... Not too shabby of a Vega either ! ! ![[emoticon]](https://forums.goodsamclub.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/cool.gif "cool")
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mkirsch
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How can you call that a tow rig? It's only a small block gasser, 6-bolt hubs, and semi-floating rear axles!
The bylaws of this of this forum state that such a rig is not suitable to tow a wheelbarrow with two trash cans from the garage to the street.
Seriously, that is nice. I would drive it every day and work it when I needed it to.
Putting 10-ply tires on half ton trucks since aught-four.
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TurnThePage
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Sweet!
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BenK
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Great job and looking Sub !
Your handiwork is first rate
Some of them of that era had two piece drive shafts. With the center bearing mounted on a cross piece that had a hole in it
IIRC, if the rear end drops a bit too much at speed...that center structure & it's hole would cut a one piece replacement shaft in half...
Super cool rig and what fun with a 'built' 350. Guessing it weighs in around 3,500-4,000 lbs. Power to weight ratio close to muscle car range
-Ben Picture of my rig
1996 GMC SLT Suburban 3/4 ton K3500/7.4L/4:1/+150Kmiles orig owner...
1980 Chevy Silverado C10/long bed/"BUILT" 5.7L/3:73/1 ton helper springs/+329Kmiles, bought it from dad...
1998 Mazda B2500 (1/2 ton) pickup, 2nd owner...
Praise Dyno Brake equiped and all have "nose bleed" braking!
Previous trucks/offroaders: 40's Jeep restored in mid 60's / 69 DuneBuggy (approx +1K lb: VW pan/200hpCorvair: eng, cam, dual carb'w velocity stacks'n 18" runners, 4spd transaxle) made myself from ground up / 1970 Toyota FJ40 / 1973 K5 Blazer (2dr Tahoe, 1 ton axles front/rear, +255K miles when sold it)...
Sold the boat (looking for another): Trophy with twin 150's...
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LowRyter
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Very nice
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Reisender
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Pretty cool. Good job. Are you going to pair it up with a vintage trailer?
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Me Again
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Cool, in another post I talked about removing a 292 six and installing a 283 is my 63 sub. It was a panel door model also with was good to having the tool box inside the back doors, and easy to work on the boat while on the trailer hooked to the sub. Only needed a different motor mount tower for the passenger side of the engine to do the swap. And I bought the factory fan shroud that was long front to back to cover the fan. Looking under the hood one would have never guessed that it did not come OEM with the V8!
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