Pics of your tow vehicle?

I am not a fan of TC and ABS on a standard passenger vehicle either. I always turn off the TC and I installed an ABS disable switch on several cars I have had.

In any of those rear wheel drive highway cruisers (or I guess any rwd car) there's a need for real snow tires if you want to do much in the bad weather. All-seasons are a bad compromise at best. I've had SUV's as my primary vehicle since around 1986 but drove rwd cars in earlier years, and since when traveling with sales guys all through the northeast. The real road warriors put good quality snows on and the traction difference is huge.

john b wrote: At least this guy in the gold car has 4WD, but sadly, no hitch.

uhhhh, John, that aint no real 4x4...

THIS is a real 4WD...







and the ABS was disabled when I first bought the truck... (hate plowing with it).



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I like it when a man has a truck because he NEEDS a truck Steve.

All you need to get up your driveway in the winter is a Sherpa or two, Gary. The Ford is really pretty with the plow on the front.
(edit) is that a Cub? When I posted I thought it was your Ford and your date was wrong. Another very nice tractor!!!!

Does anyone remember these? This is my tow vehicle form the late 80s-early 90s. It worked pretty hard during it's stay in my stable and pulled the Supra to St Louis time or two. It came with some goofy vacuum operated 4WD system. I removed it and put a New Process dual range transfer case from a Jeep Cherokee in it and it was a pretty good 4WD car for the day. The down side was that 258 / I-6 burned more gas than Captain Stubing's craft. I retired it in a trade for a CJ7 project with 288,000 on the clock. It was a car that people expressed strong opinions on. Random people would frequently approach me and say that it was either the ugliest car ever made or the coolest. The jury is still out on that.

I've yet to plow with a v-plow myself, would love to give it a try. I'm putting an 8' minute mount 2 on the truck, the plow cost more than the truck already so didn't want to pay even more for a V.

John, I used to think the AMC Eagle was a very cool car, with the styling and 4WD. There is something neat about having a small car that can actually tow something fairly large.

That's moving some serious snow! Funny how much work you can get done with a 14 year old truck that doesn't cost $55,000!

My '69 Rambler with studded snow tires and 300#'s of junk in the trunk was one bad mother in the snow.....No good for towing but when I upgraded to the Pinto Station Wagon it would tow the old Glastron Carlson quite poorly lol

62 wood wrote: john b wrote: At least this guy in the gold car has 4WD, but sadly, no hitch. uhhhh, John, that aint no real 4x4... THIS is a real 4WD... and the ABS was disabled when I first bought the truck... (hate plowing with it). .

You actually have brakes on a plow truck??

John B: Jury has returned a verdict. Always thought the Eagle was cool, and still do...

62 wood wrote: Peter, Brakes do come in handy when backing up and getting ready to shift into drive to make another run. Those reverse into drive "drops" tend to be hard on the trans.. ... heck, I have even used them once or twice to stop at the end of a push.

i did 30 to 45 driveways per storm from 1985 to 2012   finally retired from it most of those yrs in an 84 chev 1 ton dually dump with a 350 ,9 ft fisher and half a ton of sand in the back, that truck made me enough $ to get thru the winters here. I have mixed feelings about not doing it anymore, i just put a blade on my blazer to do my yard here... now when younger guys ask me about doing drive ways and all the $ they could make ,my first advice is . get in your truck , drive from N.H to N.Y and every 2 miles run into a jersey barrier ,, call me when you get there.....................

The first chink in the armour.
My tow vehicle let me sdown this week end. I wanted to go to Minneapolis for the weekend but now I'm doing maintenance on my tow vehicle getting it ready for the summer ahead. I found a wheel bearing that needed attention a couple days before I was set to go. Just great. And that coming on the heels of the ignition switch recall. This is such a disappointment. Only 179,000 miles. I may as well put a new set of pads on the front brakes too. This it the third set. It must be all that heavy towing that is wearing them out so fast. Bummer.

I found some old pictures of tow vehicles I've used over the last little while.

1. My brother's 2004 Ram 2500 Cummins 4x4 6 speed we towed the 1996 Sport home to Canada from Phoenix with (at Saguaro Lake Northeast of Phoenix)


2. My father in law's 2010 F150 we towed the 1997 Sport home to Canada from Austin, TX with (somewhere in Oklahoma)


3. My old 2001 Grand Cherokee 60th Anniversary Edition with 4.7 towing the 1996 Sport. Just sold the Jeep for next to nothing to get it out of the driveway :( . I put a lot of miles on that thing and with a 6500 lb tow capacity it sure towed well. (At home boat launch in Nipawin, SK, Canada)

Aww Dwight, your pic of the 97 sport reminds me of my old 92 sport. I towed it with my 95 Cherokee from Albany NY to Minneapolis in 1997, and then back in 2000. I also drove it from NY to VA beach/NC in 1996.



The charcoal/red/white is still my favorite CC color combination.

I'm looking forward to how my 2014 F150 handles my boats this summer. I've had 2 Nissan Frontiers over the last 6 years and while it has great towing capability for a 6cyl, I'm glad to have some V8 power now.

Wow, that Nissan had to look like an compressed accordion after it hit the opposite bridge embankment.