In the market for a truck...

YY1 said

My uncle had an E 350 van with the 460.

10 MPG empty. 10 MPG fully loaded with books pulling a trailer fully loaded with books.

$2500 will get you a super nice 72-93 Dodge, possibly crew cab unless it's a tricked out power wagon, Macho, LRE, or Warlock.

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Yeah, that's one of the advantages of the early Fords.

My dad had a '74 extended wheel base F350 cab and chassis with a 360 and 4 speed. He used it to haul his JD350 for dozer work and scrap as his main business.

A friend of his had a similar 350 powered C30. The friend bragged that he got 15 miles to the gallon on the way to a job site. The Ford got about 12. On the way home, both fully loaded, Pop's F350 got the same 12. The Chevy fell of to about 6mpg.

Pop traded the truck to a local lumber mill in exchange for enough lumber to build an addition off the old single wide we had when I was a kid. Rumor has it that the truck is still at the lumber mill. I've yet to verify that as I don't have the money to make an offer on it. Be kinda cool if it is. I'd love to have my grandfather's '78 F250 and my dad's '74 F350 sitting side by side.