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Old July 22nd, 2009, 08:48 AM   #8 (permalink)
marcar1993
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I'd say the 60's and 70's wagons can haul A LOT of wieght.
Maybe I'm comparing aplles to oranges here, but my wagon has pulled a ~4k lbs camper for a good deal of it's life, and that camper had 4 people's luggage in it and 3-4k lbs of toy trains on it's way to the tca(train collectors association) meet in York, PA. And it only has a 2bbl 318, about equivelent of a 2bbl olds 350. Now when I say good deal of it's life, I mean like out of 67k original miles, it has haulled that camper at least 20k of them. Mind you this is on an original motor and trans that still has no problems doing work when called upon. Most of the other milage not towing that camper it was hauling either a car load of people and luggage or tons of supplies like lumber, 2k lbs of toy trains or even a building. A complete 12X24 ft building complete with all the concrete block for the foundation and the wood for the floor... That would be my dad's GARGAGE brought home with our wagon.

It is still our work horse, the only thing with a class 4 hitch. Better yet the only thing with a hitch. The only thing that can fit anything we want to take home from buildings to couches.

Sorry for my rant. But I can venture to geuss that an olds wagon with a bbo/th400 should be able to do the same at least. Truthfully, how much more do you want?
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