Don't mind me, just trying to make CalzoneGolem's head explode

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 05/30/2014 at 10:40 • Filed to: None

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See site for full attribution: Campo, CA Motor Transport Museum.

505Turbeaux > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/30/2014 at 10:44

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would DD, just as is

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/30/2014 at 10:47

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That thing is BEGGGING to donate it's bodywork to a flatbed car hauler, with a newer frame and turbo-diesel drivetrain under it.

The cab, and the body sides below the belt line all the way back, would make for a great custom classic car hauler.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 05/30/2014 at 10:50

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Alternately, make it an *enclosed* car hauler as-is. Restoring the "Richfield ARCO Gasoline" lettering and all. Frame's also got to be way more than strong enough even 75 years in - fuel is crazy heavy.

Unfortunately, as this thing is owned by a "museum", they probably won't turn it loose... ever. Jerks.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/30/2014 at 10:55

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i'd be worried about rot from almost 80 years of moisture exposure, not the original weight load specification, and putting a more modern commercial truck drivetrain in it... might just be easier to transplant the corresponding frame, as well, rather than modifying a potentially weakened 75 year old steel.

Enclosed car hauler is cool, but then it becomes even harder to load and un-load the cars inside a fairly small enclosure.

And actually, I figured the body sides would have to be hollowed and the inside edges widened much closer to the outer skin for a flatbed to be hidden between the body side panels.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/30/2014 at 11:08

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Are you sure you didn't find that in a post apocalyptic Nevada waste land?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 05/30/2014 at 11:14

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All good points, but: I'm not that concerned about the rot past a point, given that it's in south-east San Diego county in the middle of the desert. Further, I wouldn't be going that modern with any drivetrain swap, so certainly wouldn't be twisting the frame out from under it. The sweet spot would probably be a drivetrain based on 70s-80s heavy truck, not something off the shelf for today.

You'd have to take the top off for anything of a good size, as to get anything properly into the body, you'd have to have it over the rear wheels instead of between. Quite high indeed. That being said, you could probably use it for compacts without having to go that far (modest wheel humps between the target's axle - not a fully flat flatbed), and the biggest access problem being the sides anyway, I could see this with a low ceiling, but a LH side access door.

Two ways you could go with body mods, IOW: one would be dressier, one more practical.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 05/30/2014 at 11:16

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It's in southeast San Diego county near the Mexican border, so post-apocalyptic wasteland is about right.

anonsagainstanonymous > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/30/2014 at 11:17

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Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggg....

There went my head as well.