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Re: [Fot] Towing

To: "'Tony Drews'" <tony@tonydrews.com>, "'FOT'" <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Towing
From: "Tim Murphy" <timmurph@fastbytes.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:18:30 -0600
Tony,
Send an e-mail to Ryan. He did a lot of research on what
engine/transmissions work and don't have problems when he bought the diesel
Excursion.  I think he paid about in the ballpark of what you are looking at
for the Excursion when he got it used at a dealer in Minneapolis.  It sure
pulls nice and you could hold a party inside of it!  I'll forward your post
to him.

-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Tony Drews
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:34 PM
To: FOT
Subject: [Fot] Towing

So we had the discussion on using a GT-6 as a tow car (LOVE it).  And 
I've been trying to resist morphing this into the full on annual tow 
vehicle discussion, but I can't help myself.

I have a pretty heavy open trailer with a weight jacker hitch that I 
tow my TR-4 with.  I use a Chevy Astro van loaded to the gills and am 
generally pretty happy with it.  It would be nice to move up about 
one notch in power though.  My current one is getting a bit long in 
the tooth (at least from a miles standpoint) - I just turned over 
166,000 miles.  Of course, I've replace MANY parts throughout my 
tenure with this, some expected, some not expected.  The intake 
manifold gasket replacement sucked the big one but was cheap since I 
did it myself, and the brake booster blowout ended up being almost 
$2500 due to the incompetence of the initial repair (should have been 
$1200 and done).

Anyway, GM quit making these things and I'm toying with what to get 
as a replacement.  It doesn't have to happen right away, I can keep 
this one going probably past 200,000.

What I'm looking for is a USED, CHEAP, GREAT tow vehicle.  I really 
like the van idea because I can put a bunch of stuff in it out of the 
rain and such, it's semi-practical when I'm NOT towing, and I can 
carry PEOPLE with it too.  I can have my big cooler within arms reach 
while on the road.  I'm thinking about a lower mileage Astro from one 
of the last years of manufacture.  I paid $2900 for my Astro a few 
years ago (had a bit over 100,000 on it then), so that gives you an 
idea of how I work.  It was an incredible value in my book.  (The 
money goes in the RACE car.)  So, let's say $7,500 max purchase price.

A pickup with a back seat and a topper may be OK, or a BIG SUV may 
work but seems like it has more to go wrong and is very space inefficient.

I'm interested to hear what you think would work...

Thanks, Tony Drews
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