[Leica] Grandpa's Boat

[Don Dory]

I am glad you are up in the midwest.  Down here in Texas even beat up 80's
trucks sell for stupid amounts of money.  Don't even get me started on
"collectible" 50's trucks that are being tricked out into everything from
50's SoCal cool to bouncing low-riders.  The smart folks who bought diesel
trucks this century are smiling a lot as the engines are still running
well(low sulfur fuel mandated by the EPA vastly reduces wear on bearings
and rings) and with very little salt used the bodies are holding up well.
 500,000 km are not unusual for the work trucks.  Still worth more than 10K
even for the high mileage ones that need new everything accessory(fuel
pumps, water pumps, injectors, power steering pumps, shocks, suspension
bits, wheel bearings, etc).

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 7:09 AM Christopher Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> I'll stick to GM's recommendation. That car was WAAAAAY too expensive to
> risk f--king up. I think next summer I might buy an old beatup used pickup
> to carry it in. I don't want to spend a lot of money, since I would only
> use it for transporting the boat and on the rare occasions when I need to
> haul something.
>
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> On 12/21/22, 7:43 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry" <lug-bounces+chris=
> chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
>     On 21/12/2022 03:34, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>     > My grandpa carried it in his pickup bed. Its light enough that one
> person can load it and unload it if you're careful. My grandma gave me the
> truck after he died and I drove it for several years until the transmission
> died and the cost to fix it was more than it was worth. I had a Crown
> Victoria after that and I have a small trailer for the boat that the Crown
> Vic could pull. My current car is a Cadillac CTS and the owners manual says
> that it was not designed to tow a trailer and should never be used for
> that. I'll take GM at their word on that; the car was too expensive to risk
> damaging it.
>     >
>
>     Fitting a tow bar to any unibody car can be done quite easily and
>     shouldn't damage the car provided it's done properly by a professional
>     and you're not continuously towing on very bumpy roads for any
> distance.
>     https://thefunoutdoors.com/rvs/can-a-cadillac-cts-tow-a-trailer/
>
>     Mind you, Ric's suggestion of the four sneakers is a lot cheaper and
>     probably quite effective and practicable especially if you don't have
>     too far to drive to water.
>
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