Re: Tow Vehicle

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: Must be something in the air! While I'm not a huge diesel fan, it's 
taking much longer to build my ultimate AMC (one that will tow, go and crawl 
a wall plus haul it all) so I have been looking at the new Dodge RV coaches 
with Mercedes 2.7L turbo diesel. 25 mpg while towing a car trailer seems to 
be average.


From: fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Tow Vehicle
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This is sorta off-topic, but it does concern MY AMC's.

I'll be retiring this yr from the Navy Reserve and hope to be able to 
finally start attenting more car shows/AMC meets.  I don't really have a 
show-quality car, although my wife has been urging me to sell some things, 
pool the cash and buy one good car, but that's another story.

Anyway, I've been looking for a tow vehicle, probably something new or near 
new.  I'm looking at Diesel PU's from the big three, most likely a Super 
Duty F250.  I am concerned about fuel mileage, especially in normal driving. 
Trouble is, the heavier trucks like that aren't rated by the government and 
I can't get a clear consensus on what a vehicle like what I'm after would 
get.  Any ideas/websites you could direct me to?

I'm thinking a stripper reg cab 2WD diesel/6 sp manual trans/3.73 gears. 
Figure that's plenty for the 4000 lbs or so that a loaded car trailer would 
be.  I want something that has capacity to spare so it isn't staining when 
going down the road, can handle hills OK, etc...

I hear the diesel PU's get 20+ MPG.  The only person I know around here 
first of is full of BS, and second has a crew cab, lifted, 4WD with auto 
that I think is getting some 18-20 mpg if I can filter thru his crap 
correctly.  I know other people "that knows someone" that only gets 14mpg. 
The combo I stated above should do better than that by a decent margin.

Jim Boone
Mims, FL