Heavy heavy chevy, 3500HD 10 lug!

[DirtyLarry]

Originally Posted by MrBeast

And Just for giggles I ran the mileage to new york, its about 1900 miles. So pretty close.

Plus if you would have gotten truck out of New York it would have been a rusty P.O.S! Ever look at those eastern wreckers on Ebay. Anything older than 5 years have more rust than the Titanic.

Nice wrecker by the way!

My dad bought this one brand new in 1991. It wasn’t a 3500-HD though. It was a 3500, 4x4, 7.4L, manual trans with an Eagle Claw wrecker unit that turned out to be the most worthless wrecker ever. First, I couldn't beleive the old man would by a wheel lift only wrecker without a sling as well. Second, GM IFS does not work well for wreckers as the front wheels come off the ground real easy with just a little car on the back when hitting bumps or dips in the road. With even a small car on the back the truck was outright scary to drive as the front wheels would just skip across the road when trying to turn or come to a quick stop. Around 10,000 miles one of the front upper control arm brackets broke clean off the frame. What a POS. That is where the 3500-HD's come in real nice....leaf sprung I-beam front axles! To hell with GM's IFS. No wonder most tow trucks are Stupid Duties these days.

Fortunately, I got rear-ended on I-25 and totaled it out in 1992 with only 19,000 miles on the clock so the insurance company took it off our hands. Hated that wrecker but a 3500-HD with a 4x4 conversion was way too much money for the old man to swing at the time. This wrecker was never replaced and dad continued to run our ’78 K20 with a slide in wrecker unit for many more years until he retired. The funny thing was the '78 K20 wrecker could tow the 1991 3500 wrecker but the 1991 wrecker couldn't tow the '78 K20 wrecker....that just seemed wrong.