Disaster strikes my pull vehicle

eric lavine wrote: its nice to see you guy's talking good ole American iron

You'd have to. He said cheap.

ah come on eric, of course we are. he asked what kind of machine to pull a boat, not what kind of car would be best for his wife to do her nails in

two of the boat drivers on our waterski team use the diesel excursions, and get pretty decent gas mileage. those things will pull anything. we use it to tow our huge 5.5 foot waterski jump ramp when we go to different lakes to perform

Holly crap! From bad to worse huh? Oh well, at least you got to go out on the boat. Yesterday when i put in, there was this guy at the ramp messing with his boat, would not start. We went out for about 4 hours, came back and the guy is still there. I asked him if it started and he said yes and I asked what the problem was and he said the electric trim was not working now so he could not pull the boat home without dragging the outdrive the whole way.   I think he was giving me a dirty look when I backed in, ran the boat on the trailer and was out of there in less than 5 minutes!

Oh yeah, you can get a late 80's early 90's work truck for a 1-2K. Won't be nice, but it will get you to the lake.

Newer police interceptors just dont have the towing rating due to the Watts linkage rear end setup, 1998 feature the lower ratings, older than that do alright. If you can find one a buick roadmaster wagon with an lt1 and towing package makes a very solid tow vehicle for a ski nautique sized boat and will get relatively good mileage doing so. Full size GMs as Brian recommends also do the job quite nicely and there are some bargains to be had in mid nineties tahoes and suburbans with current gas prices.    

So were heading to the lake.... About half way the tranny in my 96 Blazer drops to second gear and stays there. It's been acting up for the past year so I kind of expected it sooner or later. We had a great time out on the Sky Ski. On the way home, the tranny is still staying in second gear when suddenly there's this awful sound followed by a drop in the right front end and then a nasty scraping sound. You guessed it. The lower ball joint broke and tire flopped out sideways. Luckily I was going very slow because of the smoked tranny. Long story short, I'm looking for a reasonable tow vehicle at a cheap price. I'm not worried about gas mileage. I just don't want it to break for a few years. Any ideas? I'm considering a police interceptor car rather than a truck.