RE: Tow Vehicle

["Savage, Pete" <PSavage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

I have a 2500 Dodge standard cab 4 wheel drive diesel powered PU truck.

I bought this vehicle to plow snow and to tow cars around the country.  The vehicle has
plenty of power and performs these tasks with ease.

The vehicle has the Cummings diesel with 410 posi rear axle configuration I get ~20
miles per gallon around town and almost 15 one the highway while towing.

I am very happy that I bought the diesel as most of the 40,000+ miles I have put on the truck have
been towing a trailer with a car loaded aboard.

If I had purchased a gas version, similar to the one my neighbor bought, I would be getting ~8 miles
per gallon towing.  My neighbor also bought his truck to tow cars and I spoke with him about gas mileage prior to
buying the diesel.  It cost an additional 5K to buy the diesel rather than gas, but I think I have already saved a
few bucks.

Later
Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:25 PM
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Tow Vehicle

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

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