On Thursday 10 April 2008 06:54:31 am Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite > > > delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull > > > stumps with it... > > > > Gee, ya think uber-torque is why they did that? > > > > If you've got any pictures of it, throw them on the web. I'd love > > to see it. > > I did pull stumps with our family's old 72 Dodge Dart (225 slant 5). > Did it too with my 1981 volvo (did everything with that beast). > Also with my 79 T-bird: engine and AOD out of an 86 CrownVick but left > the diff alone: mileage like a Honda Civic on the highway (7 L/100 Km), > mileage like a sherman tank in the city.
I was seriously surprised with the power my old 95 Kia Sportage had. 4 banger, but got 147HP on the State of Oregon DEQ dynos at Hillsboro. It once pulled a Ford Explorer out of a drainage ditch, and with the help of another jeep, got a bus moving again on an icy day. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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